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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 9, released in July 2012. Data Release 9 is described in the DR9 site, and in the DR9 paper (PDF).

Technical Publications

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

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

  1. A Cautionary Tale: MARVELS Brown Dwarf Candidate Reveals Itself to be a Very Long Period, Highly Eccentric Spectroscopic Stellar Binary

    Mack, C.E., Ge, J., Deshpande, R., Wisniewski, J.P., Stassun, K.G., Gaudi, B.S., Fleming, S.W., Mahadevan, S., De Lee, N., Eastman, J., Ghezzi, L., González Hernández, J.I., Femenía, B., Ferreira, L., Porto de Mello, G., Crepp, J.R., Mata Sánchez, D., Agol, E., Beatty, T.G., Bizyaev, D., Brewington, H., Cargile, P.A., da Costa, L.N., Esposito, M., Ebelke, G., Hebb, L., Jiang, P., Kane, S.R., Lee, B., Maia, M.A.G., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Oravetz, D., Paegert, M., Pan, K., Allende Prieto, C., Pepper, J., Rebolo, R., Roy, A., Santiago, B.X., Schneider, D.P., Simmons, A., Siverd, R.J., Snedden, S., and Tofflemire, B.M., 2013, AJ, 145, 139 (15 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/5/139.

  2. Stellar velocity dispersions and emission line properties of SDSS-III/BOSS galaxies

    Thomas, D., Steele, O., Maraston, C., Johansson, J., Beifiori, A., Pforr, J., Strömbäck, G., Tremonti, C.A., Wake, D., Bizyaev, D., Bolton, A., Brewington, H., Brownstein, J.R., Comparat, J., Kneib, J.-P., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Parejko, J.K., Schneider, D.P., Shelden, A., Simmons, A., Snedden, S., Tanaka, M., Weaver, B.A., and Yan, R., 2013, MNRAS, 431, 1383 (15 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/stt261.

  3. Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-α forest fluctuations in BOSS data release 9

    Slosar, A., Iršič, V., Kirkby, D., Bailey, S., Busca, N.G., Delubac, T., Rich, J., Aubourg, É., Bautista, J.E., Bhardwaj, V., Blomqvist, M., Bolton, A.S., Bovy, J., Brownstein, J., Carithers, B., Croft, R.A.C., Dawson, K.S., Font-Ribera, A., Le Goff, J.-M., Ho, S., Honscheid, K., Lee, K.-G., Margala, D., McDonald, P., Medolin, B., Miralda-Escudé, J., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Noterdaeme, P., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pâris, I., Petitjean, P., Pieri, M.M., Piškur, Y., Roe, N.A., Ross, N.P., Rossi, G., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Suzuki, N., Sheldon, E.S., Seljak, U., Viel, M., Weinberg, D.H., and Yèche, C., 2013, JCAP, 4, 26 (56 pages), doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/026.

  4. The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminosity and Color Dependence and Redshift Evolution

    Guo, H., Zehavi, I., Zheng, Z., Weinberg, D.H., Berlind, A.A., Blanton, M., Yanmei, C., Eisenstein, D.J., Ho, S., Kazin, E., Manera, M., Maraston, C., McBride, C.K., Nuza, S.E., Padmanabhan, N., Parejko, J.K., Percival, W.J., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Samushia, L., Sanchez, A.G., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Skibba, R.A., Swanson, M.E.C., Tinker, J.L., Tojeiro, R., Wake, D.A., White, M., Bahcall, N.A., Bizyaev, D., Brewington, H., Bundy, K., da Costa, L.N.A., Ebelke, G., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Oravetz, D., Rossi, G., Simmons, A., Snedden, S., Streblyanska, A., and Thomas, D., 2013, ApJ, 767(2), 122 (19 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/122.

  5. Very Metal-poor Stars in the Outer Galactic Bulge Found by the APOGEE Survey

    García Pérez, A.E., Cunha, K., Shetrone, M., Majewski, S.R., Johnson, J.A., Smith, V.V., Schiavon, R.P., Holtzman, J., Nidever, D., Zasowski, G., Allende Prieto, C., Beers, T.C., Bizyaev, D., Ebelke, G., Eisenstein, D.J., Frinchaboy, P.M., Girardi, L., Hearty, F.R., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Meszaros, Sz., O'Connell, R.W., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Robin, A.C., Schneider, D.P., Schultheis, M., Skrutskie, M.F., Simmons, A., and Wilson, J.C., 2013, ApJL, 767(1), L9 (7 pages), doi:10.1088/2041-8205/767/1/L9.

  6. Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS quasars

    Busca, N.G., Delubac, T., Rich, J., Bailey, S., Font-Ribera, A., Kirkby, D., Le Goff, J.-M., Pieri, M.M., Slosar, A., Aubourg, É, Bautista, J.E., Bizyaev, D., Blomqvist, M., Bolton, A.S., Bovy, J., Brewington, H., Borde, A., Brinkmann, J., Carithers, B., Croft, R.A.C., Dawson, K.S., Ebelke, G., Eisenstein, D.J., Hamilton, J.-C., Ho, S., Hogg, D.W., Honscheid, K., Lee, K.-G., Lundgren, B., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Margala, D., Maraston, C., Mehta, K., Miralda-Escudé, J., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Noterdaeme, P., Olmstead, M.D., Oravetz, D., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pan, K., Pâris, I., Percival, W.J., Petitjean, P., Roe, N.A., Rollinde, E., Ross, N.P., Rossi, G., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Shelden, A., Sheldon, E.S., Simmons, A., Snedden, S., Tinker, J.L., Viel, M., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H., White, M., Yèche, C., and York, D.G., 2013, A&A, 552, A96 (18 pages), doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220724.

  7. Fitting methods for baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-α forest fluctuations in BOSS data release 9

    Kirkby, D., Margala, D., Slosar, A., Bailey, S., Busca, N.G., Delubac, T., Rich, J., Bautista, J.E., Blomqvist, M., Brownstein, J.R., Carithers, B., Croft, R.A.C., Dawson, K.S., Font-Ribera, A., Miralda-Escudé, J., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pâris, I., Petitjean, P., Rossi, G., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Viel, M., Weinberg, D.H., and Yèche, C., 2013, JCAP, 3, 024 (39 pages), doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/024.

  8. The BOSS Ly-α Forest Sample from SDSS Data Release 9

    Lee, K.-G., Bailey, S., Bartsch, L.E., Carithers, W., Dawson, K.S., Kirkby, D., Lungren, B., Margala, D., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pieri, M.M., Schlegel, D.J., Weinberg, D.H., Yèche, C., Aubourg, É., Bautista, J., Bizyaev, D., Blomqvist, M., Bolton, A.S., Borde, A., Brewington, H., Busca, N.G., Croft, R.A.C., Delubac, T., Ebelke, G., Eisenstein, D.J., Font-Ribera, A., Ge, J., Hamilton, J.-C., Hennawi, J.F., Ho, S., Honscheid, K., Le Goff, J.-M., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Miralda-Escudé, J., Myers, A.D., Noterdaeme, P., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Pâris, I., Petitjean, P., Rich, J., Rollinde, E., Ross, N.P., Rossi, G., Schneider, D.P., Simmons, A., Snedden, S., Slosar, A., Spergel, D.N., Suzuki, N., Viel, M., and Weaver, B.A., 2013, AJ, 145(3), 69 (16 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/3/69.

  9. Chemical Abundances in Field Red Giants from High-resolution H-band Spectra Using the APOGEE Spectral Linelist

    Smith, V.V., Cunha, K., Shetrone, M.D., Meszaros, S., Allende Prieto, C., Bizyaev, D., Garcìa Pèrez, A., Majewski, S.R., Schiavon, R., Holtzman, J., and Johnson, J.A., 2013, ApJ, 765(1), 16 (15 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/16.

  10. Luminosity Function from Dedicated SDSS-III and MMT Data of Quasars in 0.7 < z < 4.0 Selected with a New Approach

    Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Magneville, C., Yeche, C., Eftekarzadeh, S., Myers, A.D., Petitjean, P., Pâris, I., Aubourg, É., McGreer, I., Fan, X., Dey, A., Schlegel, D.J., Bailey, S., Bizayev, D., Bolton, A., Dawson, K., Ebelke, G., Ge, J., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P., Sheldon, E., Simmons, A., Tinker, J., White, M., and Willmer, C., 2013, A&A, 551, A29 (14 pages), doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220379.

  11. Subaru Weak Lensing Measurement of a z = 0.81 Cluster Discovered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Survey

    Miyatake, H., Nishizawa, A.J., Takada, M., Mandelbaum, R., Mineo, S., Aihara, H., Spergel, D.N., Bickerton, S.J., Bond, J.R., Gralla, M., Hajian, A., Hilton, M., Hincks, A.D., Hughes, J.P., Infante, L., Lin, Y.-T., Lupton, R.H., Marriage, T.A., Marsden, D., Menanteau, F., Miyazaki, S., Moodley, K., Niemack, M.D., Oguri, M., Price, P.A., Reese, E.D., Sifon, C., Wollack, E.J., and Yasuda, N., 2013, MNRAS, 429(4), 3627 (18 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts643.

  12. Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies to z ~ 0.6 . II. The Link Between Radio AGN Activity and Star Formation

    Chen, Y.-M., Kauffmann, G., Heckman, T.M., Tremonti, C.A., White, S., Guo, H., Wake, D., Schneider, D.P., and Schawinski, K., 2013, MNRAS, 429(3), 2643 (12 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts544.

  13. Cosmology with Photometrically Classified Type Ia Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey.

    Campbell, H., D'Andrea, C.B., Nichol, R.C., Sako, M., Smith, M., Lampeitl, H., Olmstead, M.D., Bassett, B., Biswas, R., Brown, P., Cinabro, D., Dawson, K.S., Dilday, B., Foley, R.J., Frieman, J.A., Garnavich, P., Hlozek, R., Jha, S.W., Kuhlmann, S., Kunz, M., Marriner, J., Miquel, R., Richmond, M., Riess, A., Schneider, D.P., Sollerman, J., Taylor, M., and Zhao, G.-B., 2013, ApJ, 763(2), 88 (28 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/88.

  14. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Testing deviations from Λ and general relativity using anisotropic clustering of galaxies.

    Samushia, L., Reid, B.A., White, M., Percival, W.J., Cuesta, A.J., Lombriser, L., Manera, M., Nichol, R.C., Schneider, D.P., Bizyaev, D., Brewington, H., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Simmons, A., Shelden, A., Snedden, S., Tinker, J.L., Weaver, B.A., York, D.G., and Zhao, Gong-Bo 2012, MNRAS, 429(2), 1514 (15 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts443.

  15. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low-redshift sample.

    Parejko, J.K., Sunayama, T., Padmanabhan, N., Wake, D.A., Berlind, A.A., Bizyaev, D., Blanton, M., Bolton, A.S., van den Bosch, F., Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, J.R., da Costa, L.A.N., Eisenstein, D.J., Guo, H., Kazin, E., Maia, M., Malanushenko, E., Maraston, C., McBride, C.K., Nichol, R.C., Oravetz, D.J., Pan, K., Percival, W.J., Prada, F., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Simmons, A.E., Skibba, R., Tinker, J., Tojeiro, R., Weaver, B.A., Wetzel, A., White, M., Weinberg, D.H., Thomas, D., Zehavi, I., and Zheng, Z., 2013, MNRAS, 429(1), 98 (15 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts314.

  16. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III.

    Dawson, K.S., Schlegel, D.J., Ahn, C.P., Anderson, S.F., Aubourg, É, Bailey, S., Barkhouser, R.H., Bautista, J.E., Beifiori, A., Berlind, A.A., Bhardwaj, V., Bizyaev, D., Blake, C.H., Blanton, M.R., Blomqvist, M., Bolton, A.S., Borde, A., Bovy, J., Brandt, W.N., Brewington, H., Brinkmann, J., Brown, P.J., Brownstein, J.R., Bundy, K., Busca, N.G., Carithers, W., Carnero, A.R., Carr, M.A., Chen, Y., Comparat, J., Connolly, N., Cope, F., Croft, R.A.C., Cuesta, A.J., da Costa, L.N., Davenport, J.R.A., Delubac, T., de Putter, R., Dhital, S., Ealet, A., Ebelke, G.L., Eisenstein, D.J., Escoffier, S., Fan, X., Filiz Ak, N., Finley, H., Font-Ribera, A., Génova-Santos, R., Gunn, J.E., Guo, H., Haggard, D., Hall, P.B., Hamilton, J.-C., Harris, B., Harris, D.W., Ho, S., Hogg, D.W., Holder, D., Honscheid, K., Huehnerhoff, J., Jordan, B., Jordan, W.P., Kauffmann, G., Kazin, E.A., Kirkby, D., Klaene, M.A., Kneib, J.-P., Le Goff, J.-M., Lee, K.-G., Long, D.C., Loomis, C.P., Lundgren, B., Lupton, R.H., Maia, M.A.G., Makler, M., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Mandelbaum, R., Manera, M., Maraston, C., Margala, D., Masters, K.L., McBride, C.K., McDonald, P., McGreer, I.D., McMahon, R.G., Mena, O., Miralda-Escudé, J., Montero-Dorta, A.D., Montesano, F., Muna, D., Myers, A.D., Naugle, T., Nichol, R.C., Noterdaeme, P., Nuza, S.E., Olmstead, M.D., Oravetz, A., Oravetz, D.J., Owen, R., Padmanabhan, N., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pan, K., Parejko, J.K., Pâris, I., Percival, W.J., Pérez-Fournon, I., Pérez-Ràfols, I., Petitjean, P., Pfaffenberger, R., Pforr, J., Pieri, M.M., Prada, F., Price-Whelan, A.M., Raddick, M.J., Rebolo, R., Rich, J., Richards, G.T., Rockosi, C.M., Roe, N.A., Ross, A.J., Ross, N.P., Rossi, G., Rubiño-Martin, J.A., Samushia, L., Sánchez, A.G., Sayres, C., Schmidt, S.J., Schneider, D.P., Scóccola, C.G., Seo, H.-J., Shelden, A., Sheldon, E., Shen, Y., Shu, Y., Slosar, A., Smee, S.A., Snedden, S.A., Stauffer, F., Steele, O., Strauss, M.A., Streblyanska, A., Suzuki, N., Swanson, M.E.C., Tal, T., Tanaka, M., Thomas, D., Tinker, J.L., Tojeiro, R., Tremonti, C.A., Vargas Magaña, M., Verde, L., Viel, M., Wake, D.A., Watson, M., Weaver, B.A., Weinberg, D.H., Weiner, B.J., West, A.A., White, M., Wood-Vasey, W.M., Yèche, C., Zehavi, I., Zhao, G.-B., and Zheng, Z., 2013, AJ, 145(1), 10 (41 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/1/10

  17. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity.

    Ross, A.J., Percival, W.J., Carnero, A., Zhao, G.-B., Manera, M., Raccanelli, A., Aubourg, É., Bizyaev, D., Brewington, H., Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, J.R., Cuesta, A.J., da Costa, Luiz A.N., Eisenstein, D.J., Ebelke, G., Guo, H., Hamilton, J.-C., Magaña, M.V., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Maraston, C., Montesano, F., Nichol, R.C., Oravetz, D., Pan, K., Prada, F., Sánchez, A.G., Samushia, L., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Seo, H.-J., Sheldon, A., Simmons, A., Snedden, S., Swanson, M.E.C., Thomas, D., Tinker, J.L., Tojeiro, R., and Zehavi, I., 2013, MNRAS, 428(2), 1116 (12 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts094

  18. Investigating emission-line galaxy surveys with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey infrastructure.

    Comparat, J., Kneib, J.-P., Escoffier, S., Zoubian, J., Ealet, A., Lamareille, F., Mostek, N., Steele, O., Aubourg, É., Bailey, S., Bolton, A.S., Brownstein, J., Dawson, K., Ge, J., Ilbert, O., Leauthaud, A., Maraston, C., Percival, W., Ross, N.P., Schmid, C., Schlegel, D.J., Schneider, D.P., Thomas, D., Tinker, J.L., and Weaver, B.A., 2013, MNRAS, 428(2), 1498 (20 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts127

  19. Very-low-mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars from Marvels. III. A Short-period Brown Dwarf Candidate around an Active G0IV Subgiant.

    Ma, B., Ge, J., Barnes, R., Crepp, J.R., De Lee, N., Dutra-Ferreira, L., Esposito, M., Femenia, B., Fleming, S.W., Gaudi, B.S., Ghezzi, L., Hebb, L., Gonzalez Hernandez, J.I., Lee, B.L., Porto de Mello, G.F., Stassun, K.G., Wang, J., Wisniewski, J.P., Agol, E., Bizyaev, D., Cargile, P., Chang, L., Nicolaci da Costa, L., Eastman, J.D., Gary, B., Jiang, P., Kane, S.R., Li, R., Liu, J., Mahadevan, S., Maia, M.A.G., Muna, D., Nguyen, D.C., Ogando, R.L.C., Oravetz, D., Pepper, J., Paegert, M., Allende Prieto, C., Rebolo, R., Santiago, B.X., Schneider, D.P., Shelden, A., Simmons, A., Sivarani, T., van Eyken, J.C., Wan, X., Weaver, B.A., and Zhao, B, 2013, AJ, 145(1), 20 (15 pages), doi:10.1088/0004-6256/145/1/20.

  20. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a large sample of mock galaxy catalogues

    Manera, M., Scoccimarro, R., Percival, W.J., Samushia, L., Ross, A.J., Sheth, R.K., White, M., Reid, B.A., Sánchez, A.G., de Putter, R., Xu, X., Berlind, A.A., Brinkmann, J., Maraston, C., Nichol, B., Montesano, F., Padmanabhan, N., Skibba, R.A., Tojeiro, R., and Weaver, B.A., 2013, MNRAS, 428(2), 1036 (xx1 pages), doi:10.1093/mnras/sts084.

  21. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.

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  22. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: Ninth data release

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