TITLE:
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
AUTHOR(S):
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,
Marcel A. Agueros,
Sahar S. Allam,
Kurt S. J. Anderson,
Scott F. Anderson,
James Annis,
Neta A. Bahcall,
Ivan K. Baldry,
J. C. Barentine,
Andreas Berlind,
Mariangela Bernardi,
Michael R. Blanton,
William N. Boroski,
Howard J. Brewington,
Jarle Brinchmann,
J. Brinkmann,
Robert J. Brunner,
Tamas Budavari,
Larry N. Carey,
Michael A. Carr,
Francisco J. Castander,
A. J. Connolly,
Istvan Csabai,
Paul C. Czarapata,
Julianne J. Dalcanton,
Mamoru Doi,
Feng Dong,
Daniel J. Eisenstein,
Michael L. Evans,
Xiaohui Fan,
Douglas P. Finkbeiner,
Scott D. Friedman,
Joshua A. Frieman,
Masataka Fukugita,
Bruce Gillespie,
Karl Glazebrook,
Jim Gray,
Eva K. Grebel,
James E. Gunn,
Vijay K. Gurbani,
Ernst de Haas,
Patrick B. Hall,
Frederick H. Harris,
Michael Harvanek,
Suzanne L. Hawley,
Jeffrey Hayes,
John S. Hendry,
Gregory S. Hennessy,
Robert B. Hindsley,
Christopher M. Hirata,
Craig J. Hogan,
David W. Hogg,
Donald J. Holmgren,
Jon A. Holtzman,
Shin-ichi Ichikawa,
Zeljko Ivezic,
Sebastian Jester,
David E. Johnston,
Anders M. Jorgensen,
Mario Juric,
Stephen M. Kent,
S. J. Kleinman,
G. R. Knapp,
Alexei Yu. Kniazev,
Richard G. Kron,
Jurek Krzesinski,
Nikolay Kuropatkin,
Donald Q. Lamb,
Hubert Lampeitl,
Brian C. Lee,
R. French Leger,
Huan Lin,
Daniel C. Long,
Jon Loveday,
Robert H. Lupton,
Bruce Margon,
David Martinez-Delgado,
Rachel Mandelbaum,
Takahiko Matsubara,
Peregrine M. McGehee,
Timothy A. McKay,
Avery Meiksin,
Jeffrey A. Munn,
Reiko Nakajima,
Thomas Nash,
Eric H. Neilsen Jr.,
Heidi Jo Newberg,
Peter R. Newman,
Robert C. Nichol,
Tom Nicinski,
Maria Nieto-Santisteban,
Atsuko Nitta,
William O'Mullane,
Sadanori Okamura,
Russell Owen,
Nikhil Padmanabhan,
George Pauls,
John Peoples Jr.,
Jeffrey R. Pier,
Adrian C. Pope,
Dimitri Pourbaix,
Thomas R. Quinn,
Gordon T. Richards,
Michael W. Richmond,
Constance M. Rockosi,
David J. Schlegel,
Donald P. Schneider,
Joshua Schroeder,
Ryan Scranton,
Uros Seljak,
Erin Sheldon,
Kazu Shimasaku,
J. Allyn Smith,
Vernesa Smolcic,
Stephanie A. Snedden,
Chris Stoughton,
Michael A. Strauss,
Mark SubbaRao,
Alexander S. Szalay,
Istvan Szapudi,
Paula Szkody,
Max Tegmark,
Aniruddha R. Thakar,
Douglas L. Tucker,
Alan Uomoto,
Daniel E. Vanden Berk,
Jan Vandenberg,
Michael S. Vogeley,
Wolfgang Voges,
Nicole P. Vogt,
Lucianne M. Walkowicz,
David H. Weinberg,
Andrew A. West,
Simon D.M. White,
Yongzhong Xu,
Brian Yanny,
D. R. Yocum,
Donald G. York,
Idit Zehavi,
Stefano Zibetti,
Daniel B. Zucker.
DATE:
2005 Jul 29 (Astrophys. J. Supp., submitted); 2005 Jul 29 (arXiv, v1, posted); 2005 Sep 08 (Astrophys. J. Supp, accepted); 2006 Jan 20
(Astrophys. J. Supp., published).
AVAILABILITY:
arXiv astro-ph/0507711 (free);
UCP
(requires
subscription).
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: Astrophys. J. Supp. 162, 38 (2006).
ABSTRACT:
This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through
June 2004. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670 deg2, and 673,280
spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 4783 deg2 of that imaging data using the standard SDSS target
selection algorithms. These numbers represent a roughly 25% increment over those of the Third Data Release. The Fourth Data Release also
includes an additional 131,840 spectra of objects selected using a variety of alternative algorithms, to address scientific issues
ranging from the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way thick disk to populations of faint galaxies and quasars.
ADS BIBLIOGRAPHIC CODE: 2006ApJS..162...38A
COMMENTS:
SDSS Publication #530.