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Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.; Agüeros, Marcel A.; Allam, Sahar S.; Anderson, Kurt S. J.; Anderson, Scott F.; Annis, James; Bahcall, Neta A.; Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.; Baldry, Ivan K.; Barentine, J. C.; Beers, Timothy C.; Belokurov, V.; Berlind, Andreas; Bernardi, Mariangela; Blanton, Michael R.; Bochanski, John J.; Boroski, William N.; Bramich, D. M.; Brewington, Howard J.; Brinchmann, Jarle; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert J.; Budavári, Tamás; Carey, Larry N.; Carliles, Samuel; Carr, Michael A.; Castander, Francisco J.; Connolly, A. J.; Cool, R. J.; Cunha, Carlos E.; Csabai, István; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Doi, Mamoru; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Evans, Michael L.; Evans, N. W.; Fan, Xiaohui; Finkbeiner, Douglas P.; Friedman, Scott D.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gillespie, Bruce; Gilmore, G.; Glazebrook, Karl; Gray, Jim; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; de Haas, Ernst; Hall, Patrick B.; Harvanek, Michael; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hayes, Jeffrey; Heckman, Timothy M.; Hendry, John S.; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Hindsley, Robert B.; Hirata, Christopher M.; Hogan, Craig J.; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Ichikawa, Shin-ichi; Ichikawa, Takashi; Ivezić, Željko; Jester, Sebastian; Johnston, David E.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Jurić, Mario; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kent, Stephen M.; Kleinman, S. J.; Knapp, G. R.; Kniazev, Alexei Yu.; Kron, Richard G.; Krzesinski, Jurek; Kuropatkin, Nikolay; Lamb, Donald Q.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lee, Brian C.; Leger, R. French; Lima, Marcos; Lin, Huan; Long, Daniel C.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Margon, Bruce; Martínez-Delgado, David; Matsubara, Takahiko; McGehee, Peregrine M.; McKay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Nakajima, Reiko; Nash, Thomas; Neilsen, Eric H., Jr.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Nichol, Robert C.; Nieto-Santisteban, Maria; Nitta, Atsuko; Oyaizu, Hiroaki et al.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 172, Issue 2, pp. 634-644.
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2007
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Description
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through
2005 June 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
deg2 and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars
selected from 5713 deg2 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.