The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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العنوان: The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
المؤلفون: Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
المصدر: Astrophys.J.Suppl.175:297-313,2008
سنة النشر: 2007
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics
الوصف: With the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the imaging of the Northern Galactic Cap is now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg^2, and 1.27 million spectra of stars, galaxies, quasars and blank sky (for sky subtraction) selected over 7425 deg^2. This release includes much more extensive stellar spectroscopy than previously, and also includes detailed estimates of stellar temperatures, gravities, and metallicities. The results of improved photometric calibration are now available, with uncertainties of roughly 1% in g, r, i, and z, and 2% in u, substantially better than the uncertainties in previous data releases. The spectra in this data release have improved wavelength and flux calibration, especially in the extreme blue and extreme red, leading to the qualitatively better determination of stellar types and radial velocities. The spectrophotometric fluxes are now tied to point spread function magnitudes of stars rather than fiber magnitudes, giving a 0.35 mag change in the spectrophotometric flux scale. Systematic errors in the velocity dispersions of galaxies have been fixed, and the results of two independent codes for determining spectral classifications and redshifts are made available. (Abridged)
Comment: 21 pages with 8 color figures. ApJS, in press. Minor modifications from previous version
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1086/524984
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3413
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.0707.3413
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv