SDSS-III Publications

Data Release Publications

Our Data Release Publications describe what data each of our data releases contain, how the data were collected, and technical details of the project. The most current public data release of the SDSS-III is Data Release 8, released in January 2011.

Technical Publications

Our Technical Publications describe various aspects of the technial operation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Peer-reviewed Publications of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III

  1. The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS). I. A Large Spectroscoically Selected Sample of Lens Galaxies at Redshift ~0.5

    Brownstein, J.R., Bolton, A.S., Schlegel, D.J., Eisenstein, D.J., Kochanek, C.S., Connolly, N., Maraston, C., Pandey, P., Seitz, S., Wake, D.A., Wood-Vasey, W.M., Brinkmann, J., Schneider, D.P., and Weaver, B.A., 2012, ApJ, 744, 41 (22 pages)

  2. The Morphology of Galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Masters, K.L., Maraston, C., Nichol, R.C., Thomas, D., Beifiori, A., Bundy, K., Edmondson, E.M., Higgs, T.D., Leauthaud, A., Mandelbaum, R., Pforr, J., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P., Skibba, R., Tinker, J., Tojeiro, R., Wake, D.A., Brinkmann, J., and Weaver, B.A., 2011, MNRAS, 418, 1055-1070

  3. Spectroscopic Properties of Star-forming Host Galaxies and Type Ia Supernova Hubble Residuals in a Nearly Unbiased Sample

    D'Andrea, C.B., Gupta, R.R., Sako, M., Morris, M., Nichol, R.C., Brown, P.J., Campbell, H., Olmstead, M.D., frieman, J.A., Garnavich, P., Jha, S.W., Kessler, R., Lampeitl, H., Marriner, J., Schneider, D.P., and Smith, M., 2011, ApJ, 743, 172 (17 pages)

  4. Ameliorating Systematic Uncertainties in the Angular Clustering of Galaxies: A Study using the SDSS-III

    Ross, A.J., Ho, S., Cuesta, A.J., Tojeiro, R., Percival, W.J., Wake, D., Masters, K.L., Nichol, R.C., Myers, A.D., de Simoni, F., Seo, H.J., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Crittenden, R., Blanton, M., Brinkmann, J., da Costa, L.A.N., Guo, H., Kazin, E., Maia, M.A.G., Maraston, C., Padmanabhan, N., Prada, F., Ramos, B., Sanchez, A., Schlafly, E.F., Schlegal, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Skibba, R., Thomas, D., Weaver, B.A., White, M., and Zehavi, I., 2011, MNRAS, 417, 1350-1373

  5. The Lyman- alpha Forest in Three Dimensions: Measurements of Large Scale Flux Correlations from BOSS 1st-year Data

    Slosar, A., Font-Ribera, A., Pieri, M.M., Rich, J., Le Goff, J.-M., Aubourg, E., Brinkmann, J., Busca, N., Carithers, B., Charlassier, R., Cortes, M., Croft, R., Dawson, K.S., Eisenstein, D.J., Hamilton, J.-C., Ho, S., Lee, K.-G., Lupton, R.H., McDonald, P., Medolin, B., Muna, D., Miralda-Escude, J., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Palanque-Delabrouile, N., Paris, I., Petitjean, P., Piskur, Y., Rollinde, E., Ross, N.P., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Sheldon, E., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H., Yeche, C., and York, D.G., 2011, JCAP, 9, 1 (51 pages)

  6. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Eisenstein, D.J., Weinberg, D.H., Agol, E., Aihara, H., Allende-Prieto, C., Anderson, S.F., Arns, J.A., Aubourg, E., Bailey, S., Balbinot, E., Barkhouser, R., Beers, T.C., Berlind, A.A., Bickerton, S.J., Bizyaev, D., Blanton, M.R., Bochanski, J.J., Bolton, A.S., Bosman, C.T., Bovy, J., Brandt, W.N., Breslauer, B., Brewington, H.J., Brinkmann, J., Brown, P.J., Brownstein, J.R., Burger, D., Busca, N.G., Cambell, H., Cargile, P.A., Carithers, W.C., Carlberg, J.K., Carr, M.A., Chang, L., Chen, Y., Chiappini, C., Comparat, J., Connolly, N., Cortes, M., Croft, R.A.C., Cunha, K., da Costa, L.N., Davenport, J.R.A., Dawson, K., de Lee, N., Porto de Mello, G.F., de Simoni, F., Dean, J., Dhital, S., Ealet, A., Ebelke, G.L., Edmondson, E.M., Eiting, J.M., Escoffier, S., Esposito, M., Evans, M.L., Fan, X., Femenia Castella, B., Dutra Ferreira, L., Fitzgerald, G., Fleming, S.W., Font-Ribera, A., Ford, E.B., Frinchaboy, P.M., Garcia Perex, A.E., Gaudi, B.S., Ge, J., Ghezzi, L., Gillespie, B.A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, L., Gott, J.R., Gould, A., Grebel, E.K., Gunn, J.E., Hamilton, J.-C., Harding, P., Harris, D.W., Hawley, S.L., Hearty, F.R., Hennawi, J.F., Gonzalez Hernandez, J.I., Ho, S., Hogg, D.W., Holtzman, J.A., Honscheid, K., Inada, N., Ivans, I.I., Jiang, L., Jiang, P., Johnson, J.A., Jordan, C., Jordan, W.P., Kauffmann, G., Kazin, E.A., Kirkby, D., Klaene, M.A., Knapp, G.R., Kneib, J.-P., Kochanek, C.S., Koesterke, L., Kollmeier, J.A., Kron, R.G., Lampetl, H., Lang, D., Layler, J.E., Le Goff, J.-M., Lee, B.L., Lee, Y.S., Leisenring, J.M., Lin, Y.-T., Liu, J., Long, D.C., Loomis, C.P., Lucatello, S., Lundgren, B., Lupton, R.H., Ma, B., Ma, Z., MacDonald, N., Mack, C., Mahadevan, S., Maia, M.A.G., Majewski, S.R., Makler, M., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Mandelbaum, R., Maraston, C., Margala, D., Maseman, P., Masters, K.L., McBride, C.K., McDonald, P., McGreer, I.D., McMahon, R.G., Mena Requejo, O., Menard, B., Miralda-Escude, J., Morrison, H.L., Mullally, F., Muna, D., Murayama, H., Myers, A.D., Naugle, T., Neto, A.F., Nguyen, D.C., Nichol, R.C., Nidever, D.L., O'Connell, R.W., Ogando, R.L.C., Olmstead, M.D., Oravetz, D.J., Padmanabhan, N., Paegert, M., Palanque-Delabrouill, N., Pan, K., Pandey, P., Parejko, J.K., Paris, I., Pellegrini, P., Pepper, J., Percival, W.J., Petitjean, P., Pfaffenberger, R., Pforr, J., Phleps, S., Pichon, C., Pieri, M.M., Prada, F., Price-Whelan, A.M., Raddick, M.J., Ramos, B.H.F., Reid, I.N., Reyle, C., Rich, J., Richards, G.T., Rieke, G.H., Rieke, M.J., Rix, H.-W., Robin, A.C., Rocha-Pinto, H.J., Rockosi, C.M., Roe, N.A., Rollinde, E., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Rossetto, B.M., Sanchez, A.G., Santiago, B., Sayres, C., Schiavon, R., Schlegel, D.J., Schlesinger, K.J., Schmidt, S.J., Schneider, D.P., Sellgren, K., Shelden, A., Sheldon, E., Shetrone, M., Shu, Y., Silverman, J.D., Simmerer, J., Simmons, A.E., Sivarani, T., Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, A., Smee, S., Smith, V.V., Snedden, S.A., Stassun, K.G., Steele, O., Steinmetz, M., Stockett, M.H., Stollberg, T., Strauss, M.A., Szalay, A.S., Tanaka, M., Thakar, A.R., Thomas, D., Tinker, J.L., Tofflemire, B.M., Tojeiro, R., Tremonti, C.A., Vargas Magana, M., Verde, L., Vogt, N.P., Wake, D.A., Wan, X., Wang, J., Weaver, B.A., White, M., White, S.D.M., Wilson, J.C., Wisniewski, J.P., Wood-Vasey, W.M., Yanny, B., Yasuda, N., Yeche, C., York, D.G., Young, E., Zasowski, G., Zehavi, I., and Zhao, B., 2011, AJ, 142, 72 (24 pages)

  7. Quantifying Kinematic Substructure in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo

    Xue, X.-X., Rix, H.-W., Yanny, B., Beers, T.C., Bell, E.F., Zhao, G., Bullock, J.S., Johnston, K.V., Morrison, H., Rockosi, C., Kpoposov, S.E., Kang, X., Liu, C., Luo, A., Lee, Y.S., and Weaver, B.A., 2011, ApJ, 738, 79 (12 pages)

  8. Improved Background Subtraction for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Images

    Blanton, M.R., Kazin, E., Muna, D., Weaver, B.A., and Price-Whelan, A., 2011, AJ, 142, 31 (14 pages)

  9. Variability Selected High-Reshift Quasars on SDSS Stripe 82

    Palanque-Delabrouill, N., Yeche, C., Myers, A.D., Petitjean, P., Ross, N.P., Sheldon, E., Aubourg, E., Delubac, T., LeGoff, J.-M., Paris, I., Rich, J., Dawson, K.S., Schneider, D.P., and Weaver, B.A., 2011, A&A, 530, 122 (12 pages)

  10. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data From SDSS-III

    Aihara, H., Allende-Prieto, C., An, D., Anderson, S.F., Aubourg, E., Balbinot, E., Beers, T.C., Berlind, A.A., Bickerton, S.J., Bizyaev, D., Blanton, M.R., Bochanski, J.J., Bolton, A.S., Bovy, J., Brandt, W.N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, P.J., Brownstein, J.R., Busca, N.G., Cambell, H., Carr, M.A., Chen, Y., Chiappini, C., Comparat, J., Connolly, N., Cortes, M., Croft, R.A.C., Cuesta, A.J., da Costa, L.N., Davenport, J.R.A., Dawson, K., Dhital, S., Ealet, A., Ebelke, G.L., Edmondson, E.M., Eisenstein, D.J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, M., Evans, M.L., Fan, X., Femenia Castella, B., Font-Ribera, A., Frinchaboy, P.M., Ge, J., Gillespie, B.A., Gilmore, G., Gonzales Hernandez, J.I., Gott, J.R., Gould, A., Grebel, E.K., Gunn, J.E., Hamilton, J.-C., Harding, P., Harris, D.W., Hawley, S.L., Hearty, F.R., Ho, S., Hogg, D.W., Holtzman, J.A., Honscheid, K., Inada, N., Ivans, I.I., Jiang, L., Johnson, J.A., Jordan, C., Jordan, W.P., Kazin, E.A., Kirkby, D., Klaene, M.A., Knapp, G.R., Kneib, J.-P., Kochanek, C.S., Koesterke, L., Kollmeier, J.A., Kron, R.G., Lampetl, H., Lang, D., Le Goff, J.-M., Lee, Y.S., Lin, Y.-T., Long, D.C., Loomis, C.P., Lucatello, S., Lundgren, B., Lupton, R.H., Ma, Z., MacDonald, N., Mahadevan, S., Maia, M.A.G., Makler, M., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Mandelbaum, R., Maraston, C., Margala, D., Masters, K.L., McBride, C.K., McGehee, P.M., McGreer, I.D., Menard, B., Miralda-Escude, J., Morrison, H.L., Mullally, F., Muna, D., Munn, J.A., Murayama, H., Myers, A.D., Naugle, T., Neto, A.F., Nguyen, D.C., Nichol, R.C., O'Connell, R.W., Ogando, R.L.C., Olmstead, M.D., Oravetz, D.J., Padmanabhan, N., Palanque-Delabrouill, N., Pan, K., Pandey, P., Paris, I., Percival, W.J., Petitjean, P., Pfaffenberger, R., Pforr, J., Phleps, S., Pichon, C., Pieri, M.M., Prada, F., Price-Whelan, A.M., Raddick, M.J., Ramos, B.H.F., Reyle, C., Rich, J., Richards, G.T., Rix, H.-W., Robin, A.C., Rocha-Pinto, H.J., Rockosi, C.M., Roe, N.A., Rollinde, E., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Rossetto, B.M., Sanchez, A.G., Sayres, C., Schlegel, D.J., Schlesinger, K.J., Schmidt, S.J., Schneider, D.P., Sheldon, E., Shu, Y., Simmerer, J., Simmons, A.E., Sivarani, T., Snedden, S.A., Sobeck, J.S., Steinmetz, M., Strauss, M.A., Szalay, A.S., Tanaka, M., Thakar, A.R., Thomas, D., Tinker, J.L., Tofflemire, B.M., Tojeiro, R., Tremonti, C.A., Vandenberg, J., Vargas Magana, M., Verde, L., Vogt, N.P., Wake, D.A., Wang, J., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H., White, M., White, S.D.M., Yanny, B., Yasuda, N., Yeche, C., and Zehavi, I., 2011, ApJS, 193, 29 (17 pages); Erratum 2011, ApJS, 195, 26

  11. Think Outside the Color Box: Probabilistic Target Selection and the SDSS-XDQSO Quasar Targeting Catalog

    Bovy, J., Hennawi, J.F., Hogg, D.W., Myers, A.D., Kirkpatrick, J.A., Schlegel, D.J., Ross, N.P., Sheldon, E.S., McGreer, I.D., Schneider, D.P., and Weaver, B.A., 2011, ApJ, 729, 141 (20 pages)

  12. The Clustering of Massive Galaxies at z ~ 0.5 from the First Semester of BOSS Data

    White, M., Blanton, M., Bolton, A., Schlegel, D., Tinker, J., Berlind, A., da Costa, L., Kazin, E., Lin, Y.-T., Maia, M., McBride, C.K., Padmanabhan, N., Parejko, J., Percival, W., Prada, F., Ramos, B., Sheldon, E., de Simoni, F., Skibba, R., Thomas, D., Wake, D., Zehavi, I., Zheng, Z., Nichol, R., Schneider, D.P., Strauss, M.A., Weaver, B.A., and Weinberg, D.H., 2011, ApJ, 728, 126 (10 pages)

  13. MARVELS-1b: A Short-period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III Marvels Planet Search

    Lee, B.L., Ge, J., Fleming, S.W., Stassun, K.G., Gaudi, B.S., Barnes, R., Mahadevan, S., Eastman, J.D., Wright, J., Siverd, R.J., Gary, B., Ghezzi, L., Laws, C., Wisniewski, J.P., Porto de Mello, G.F., Ogando, R.L.C., Maia, M.A.G., Nicolaci da Costa, L., Sivarani, T., Pepper, J., Cuong Nguyen, C., Hebb, L., De Lee, N.M., Wang, J., Wan, X., Zhao, B., Chang, L., Groot, J., Varosi, F., Hearty, F., Hanna, K., van Eyken, J.C., Kane, S.R., Agol, E., Bizyaev, D., Bochanski, J.J., Brewington, H., Chen, Z., Costello, E., Dou, L., Eisenstein, D.J., Fletcher, A., Ford, E.B., Guo, P., Holtzman, J.A., Jiang, P., Leger, R.F., Liu, J., Long, D.C., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Malik, M., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Rohan, P., Schneider, D.P., Shelden, A., Snedden, S.A., Simmons, A., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H., and Xie, J.-W., 2011, ApJ, 728, 32 (16 pages)

  14. The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS

    Schlafly, E.F., Finkbeiner, D.P., Schlegel, D.J., Juric, M., Ivezic, Z., Gibson, R.R., Knapp, G.R., and Weaver, B.A., 2010, ApJ, 725, 1175-1191

  15. SEGUE-2 Limits on Metal-Rich Old-Population Hypervelocity Stars in the Galactic Halo.

    Kollmeier, J.A., Gould, A., Rockosi, C., Beers, T.C., Knapp, G., Johnson, J.A., Morrison, H., Harding, P., Lee, Y.S., and Weaver, B.A., 2010, ApJ, 723, 812-817

  16. Regarding the Line-of-Sight Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the SDSS-III and BOSS LRG Samples

    Kazin, E.A., Blanton, M.R., Scoccimarro, R., McBride, C.K., and Berlind, A.A., 2010, ApJ, 719, 1032-1044

  17. Binary Contamination in the SEGUE Sample: Effects on SSPP Determinations of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters

    Schlesinger, K.J., Johnson, J.A., Lee, Y.S., Masseron, T., Yanny, B., Rockosi, C.M., Gaudi, B.S., and Beers, T.C., 2010, ApJ, 719, 996-1020

Other SDSS Publications

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