TITLE:
The Fifth 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,
Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,
Ivan K. Baldry,
J. C. Barentine,
Timothy C. Beers,
V. Belokurov,
Andreas Berlind,
Mariangela Bernardi,
Michael R. Blanton,
John J. Bochanski,
William N. Boroski,
D. M. Bramich,
Howard J. Brewington,
Jarle Brinchmann,
J. Brinkmann,
Robert J. Brunner,
Tamas Budavari,
Larry N. Carey,
Samuel Carliles,
Michael A. Carr,
Francisco J. Castander,
A. J. Connolly,
R. J. Cool,
Carlos E. Cunha,
Istvan Csabai,
Julianne J. Dalcanton,
Mamoru Doi,
Daniel J. Eisenstein,
Michael L. Evans,
N. W. Evans,
Xiaohui Fan,
Douglas P. Finkbeiner,
Scott D. Friedman,
Joshua A. Frieman,
Masataka Fukugita,
Bruce Gillespie,
G. Gilmore,
Karl Glazebrook,
Jim Gray,
Eva K. Grebel,
James E. Gunn,
Ernst de Haas,
Patrick B. Hall,
Michael Harvanek,
Suzanne L. Hawley,
Jeffrey Hayes,
Timothy M. Heckman,
John S. Hendry,
Gregory S. Hennessy,
Robert B. Hindsley,
Christopher M. Hirata,
Craig J. Hogan,
David W. Hogg,
Jon A. Holtzman,
Shin-ichi Ichikawa,
Takashi Ichikawa,
Zeljko Ivezic,
Sebastian Jester,
David E. Johnston,
Anders M. Jorgensen,
Mario Juric,
Guinevere Kauffmann,
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,
Marcos Lima,
Huan Lin,
Daniel C. Long,
Jon Loveday,
Robert H. Lupton,
Rachel Mandelbaum,
Bruce Margon,
David Martinez-Delgado,
Takahiko Matsubara,
Peregrine M. McGehee,
Timothy A. McKay,
Avery Meiksin,
Jeffrey A. Munn,
Reiko Nakajima,
Thomas Nash,
Eric H. Neilsen Jr.,
Heidi Jo Newberg,
Robert C. Nichol,
Maria Nieto-Santisteban,
Atsuko Nitta,
Hiroaki Oyaizu,
Sadanori Okamura,
Jeremiah P. Ostriker,
Nikhil Padmanabhan,
Changbom Park,
John Peoples Jr.,
Jeffrey R. Pier,
Adrian C. Pope,
Dimitri Pourbaix,
Thomas R. Quinn,
M. Jordan Raddick,
Paola Re Fiorentin,
Gordon T. Richards,
Michael W. Richmond,
Hans-Walter Rix,
Constance M. Rockosi,
David J. Schlegel,
Donald P. Schneider,
Ryan Scranton,
Uros Seljak,
Erin Sheldon,
Kazu Shimasaku,
Nicole M. Silvestri,
J. Allyn Smith,
Vernesa Smolcic,
Stephanie A. Snedden,
Albert Stebbins,
Chris Stoughton,
Michael A. Strauss,
Mark SubbaRao,
Yasushi Suto,
Alexander S. Szalay,
Istvan Szapudi,
Paula Szkody,
Max Tegmark,
Aniruddha R. Thakar,
Christy A. Tremonti,
Douglas L. Tucker,
Alan Uomoto,
Daniel E. Vanden Berk,
Jan Vandenberg,
S. Vidrih,
Michael S. Vogeley,
Wolfgang Voges,
Nicole P. Vogt,
David H. Weinberg,
Andrew A. West,
Simon D.M. White,
Brian Wilhite,
Brian Yanny,
D. R. Yocum,
Donald G. York,
Idit Zehavi,
Stefano Zibetti,
Daniel B. Zucker.
DATE:
2006 Oct 09 (ApJS, submitted);
2007 Mar 19 (ApJS, accepted);
2007 Jul 23 (arXiv, v1, posted);
2007 Oct (ApJS, published).
AVAILABILITY:
arXiv:0707.3380 (free);
U Chicago Press (requires subscription).
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 172, 634â-€“6 (2007). 44, 2007 October
ABSTRACT:
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005
and represents the completion of the SDSS-I project (whose successor, SDSS-II will continue through mid-2008). It includes five-band photometric data
for 217 million objects selected over 8000 square degrees, and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 5713 square degrees of
that imaging data. These numbers represent a roughly 20% increment over those of the Fourth Data Release; all the data from previous data releases are
included in the present release. In addition to "standard" SDSS observations, DR5 includes repeat scans of the southern equatorial stripe, imaging
scans across M31 and the core of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the first spectroscopic data from SEGUE, a survey to explore the kinematics and
chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The catalog database incorporates several new features, including photometric redshifts of galaxies, tables of
matched objects in overlap regions of the imaging survey, and tools that allow precise computations of survey geometry for statistical investigations.
ADS BIBLIOGRAPHIC CODE: 2007ApJS..172..634A
COMMENTS:
SDSS Publication #701.