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

Christopher P. Ahn; Rachael Alexandroff; Carlos Allende Prieto; Scott F. Anderson; Timothy Anderton; Brett H. Andrews; Éric Aubourg; Stephen Bailey; Eduardo Balbinot; Rory Barnes; Julian Bautista; Timothy C. Beers; Alessandra Beifiori; Andreas A. Berlind; Vaishali Bhardwaj; Dmitry Bizyaev; Cullen H. Blake; Michael R. Blanton; Michael Blomqvist; John J. Bochanski; Adam S. Bolton; Arnaud Borde; Jo Bovy; W. N. Brandt; J. Brinkmann; Peter J. Brown; Joel R. Brownstein; Kevin Bundy; N. G. Busca; William Carithers; Aurelio R. Carnero; Michael A. Carr; Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu; Yanmei Chen; Cristina Chiappini; Johan Comparat; Natalia Connolly; Justin R. Crepp; Stefano Cristiani; Rupert A. C. Croft; Antonio J. Cuesta; Luiz N. da Costa; James R. A. Davenport; Kyle S. Dawson; Roland de Putter; Nathan De Lee; Timothée Delubac; Saurav Dhital; Anne Ealet; Garrett L. Ebelke; Edward M. Edmondson; Daniel J. Eisenstein; S. Escoffier; Massimiliano Esposito; Michael L. Evans; Xiaohui Fan; Bruno Femenía Castellá; Emma Fernández Alvar; Leticia D. Ferreira; N. Filiz Ak; Hayley Finley; Scott W. Fleming; Andreu Font-Ribera; Peter M. Frinchaboy; D. A. García-Hernández; A. E. García Pérez; Jian Ge; R. Génova-Santos; Bruce A. Gillespie; Léo Girardi; Jonay I. González Hernández; Eva K. Grebel; James E. Gunn; Hong Guo; Daryl Haggard; Jean-Christophe Hamilton; David W. Harris; Suzanne L. Hawley; Frederick R. Hearty; Shirley Ho; David W. Hogg; Jon A. Holtzman; Klaus Honscheid; J. Huehnerhoff; Inese I. Ivans; Željko Ivezić; Heather R. Jacobson; Linhua Jiang; Jonas Johansson; Jennifer A. Johnson; Guinevere Kauffmann; David Kirkby; Jessica A. Kirkpatrick; Mark A. Klaene; Gillian R. Knapp; Jean-Paul Kneib; Jean-Marc Le Goff; Alexie Leauthaud; Khee-Gan Lee; Young Sun Lee; Daniel C. Long; Craig P. Loomis; Sara Lucatello; Britt Lundgren; Robert H. Lupton; Bo Ma; Zhibo Ma; Nicholas MacDonald; Claude E. Mack; Suvrath Mahadevan; Marcio A. G. Maia; Steven R. Majewski; Martin Makler; Elena Malanushenko; Viktor Malanushenko; A. Manchado; Rachel Mandelbaum; Marc Manera; Claudia Maraston; Daniel Margala; Sarah L. Martell; Cameron K. McBride; Ian D. McGreer; Richard G. McMahon; Brice Ménard; Sz. Meszaros; Jordi Miralda-Escudé; Antonio D. Montero-Dorta; Francesco Montesano; Heather L. Morrison; Demitri Muna; Jeffrey A. Munn; Hitoshi Murayama; Adam D. Myers; A. F. Neto; Duy Cuong Nguyen; Robert C. Nichol; David L. Nidever; Pasquier Noterdaeme; Sebastián E. Nuza; Ricardo L. C. Ogando; Matthew D. Olmstead; Daniel J. Oravetz; Russell Owen; Nikhil Padmanabhan; Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille; Kaike Pan; John K. Parejko; Prachi Parihar; Isabelle Pâris; Petchara Pattarakijwanich; Joshua Pepper; Will J. Percival; Ismael Pérez-Fournon; Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols; Patrick Petitjean; Janine Pforr; Matthew M. Pieri; Marc H. Pinsonneault; G. F. Porto de Mello; Francisco Prada; Adrian M. Price-Whelan; M. Jordan Raddick; Rafael Rebolo; James Rich; Gordon T. Richards; Annie C. Robin; Helio J. Rocha-Pinto; Constance M. Rockosi; Natalie A. Roe; Ashley J. Ross; Nicholas P. Ross; Graziano Rossi; J. A. Rubiño-Martin; Lado Samushia; J. Sanchez Almeida; Ariel G. Sánchez; Basílio Santiago; Conor Sayres; David J. Schlegel; Katharine J. Schlesinger; Sarah J. Schmidt; Donald P. Schneider; Mathias Schultheis; Axel D. Schwope; C. G. Scóccola; Uros Seljak; Erin Sheldon; Yue Shen; Yiping Shu; Jennifer Simmerer; Audrey E. Simmons; Ramin A. Skibba; M. F. Skrutskie; A. Slosar; Flavia Sobreira; Jennifer S. Sobeck; Keivan G. Stassun; Oliver Steele; Matthias Steinmetz; Michael A. Strauss; Alina Streblyanska; Nao Suzuki; Molly E. C. Swanson; Tomer Tal; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Daniel Thomas; Benjamin A. Thompson; Jeremy L. Tinker; Rita Tojeiro; Christy A. Tremonti; M. Vargas Magaña; Licia Verde; Matteo Viel; Shailendra K. Vikas; Nicole P. Vogt; David A. Wake; Ji Wang; Benjamin A. Weaver; David H. Weinberg; Benjamin J. Weiner; Andrew A. West; Martin White; John C. Wilson; John P. Wisniewski; W. M. Wood-Vasey; Brian Yanny; Christophe Yèche; Donald G. York; O. Zamora; Gail Zasowski; Idit Zehavi; Gong-Bo Zhao; Zheng Zheng; Guangtun Zhu; Joel C. Zinn

doi:10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21

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

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Eduardo Balbinot, Rory Barnes, Julian Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Alessandra Beifiori, Andreas A. Berlind, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Dmitry Bizyaev, Cullen H. Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, John J. BochanskiAdam S. Bolton, Arnaud Borde, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, J. Brinkmann, Peter J. Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, N. G. Busca, William Carithers, Aurelio R. Carnero, Michael A. Carr, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Yanmei Chen, Cristina Chiappini, Johan Comparat, Natalia Connolly, Justin R. Crepp, Stefano Cristiani, Rupert A. C. Croft, Antonio J. Cuesta, Luiz N. da Costa, James R. A. Davenport, Kyle S. Dawson, Roland de Putter, Nathan De Lee, Timothée Delubac, Saurav Dhital, Anne Ealet, Garrett L. Ebelke, Edward M. Edmondson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, S. Escoffier, Massimiliano Esposito, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Bruno Femenía Castellá, Emma Fernández Alvar, Leticia D. Ferreira, N. Filiz Ak, Hayley Finley, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Peter M. Frinchaboy, D. A. García-Hernández, A. E. García Pérez, Jian Ge, R. Génova-Santos, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, Jonay I. González Hernández, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Hong Guo, Daryl Haggard, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, David W. Harris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Frederick R. Hearty, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Klaus Honscheid, J. Huehnerhoff, Inese I. Ivans, Željko Ivezić, Heather R. Jacobson, Linhua Jiang, Jonas Johansson, Jennifer A. Johnson, Guinevere Kauffmann, David Kirkby, Jessica A. Kirkpatrick, Mark A. Klaene, Gillian R. Knapp, Jean-Paul Kneib, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Alexie Leauthaud, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Lee, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Sara Lucatello, Britt Lundgren, Robert H. Lupton, Bo Ma, Zhibo Ma, Nicholas MacDonald, Claude E. Mack, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Martin Makler, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, A. Manchado, Rachel Mandelbaum, Marc Manera, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Margala, Sarah L. Martell, Cameron K. McBride, Ian D. McGreer, Richard G. McMahon, Brice Ménard, Sz. Meszaros, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Francesco Montesano, Heather L. Morrison, Demitri Muna, Jeffrey A. Munn, Hitoshi Murayama, Adam D. Myers, A. F. Neto, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Sebastián E. Nuza, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel J. Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Prachi Parihar, Isabelle Pâris, Petchara Pattarakijwanich, Joshua Pepper, Will J. Percival, Ismael Pérez-Fournon, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Patrick Petitjean, Janine Pforr, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc H. Pinsonneault, G. F. Porto de Mello, Francisco Prada, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, M. Jordan Raddick, Rafael Rebolo, James Rich, Gordon T. Richards, Annie C. Robin, Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Constance M. Rockosi, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, J. A. Rubiño-Martin, Lado Samushia, J. Sanchez Almeida, Ariel G. Sánchez, Basílio Santiago, Conor Sayres, David J. Schlegel, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel D. Schwope, C. G. Scóccola, Uros Seljak, Erin Sheldon, Yue Shen, Yiping Shu, Jennifer Simmerer, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin A. Skibba, M. F. Skrutskie, A. Slosar, Flavia Sobreira, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Keivan G. Stassun, Oliver Steele, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, Molly E. C. Swanson, Tomer Tal, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Christy A. Tremonti, M. Vargas Magaña, Licia Verde, Matteo Viel, Shailendra K. Vikas, Nicole P. Vogt, David A. Wake, Ji Wang, Benjamin A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin J. Weiner, Andrew A. West, Martin White, John C. Wilson, John P. Wisniewski, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Brian Yanny, Christophe Yèche, Donald G. York, O. Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Idit Zehavi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Guangtun Zhu, Joel C. Zinn

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z ~ 0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z ~ 2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T eff <5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H] > -0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SEGUE-2. The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the APOGEE along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in 2014 December.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume	203
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2012

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Ahn, C. P., Alexandroff, R., Allende Prieto, C., Anderson, S. F., Anderton, T., Andrews, B. H., Aubourg, É., Bailey, S., Balbinot, E., Barnes, R., Bautista, J., Beers, T. C., Beifiori, A., Berlind, A. A., Bhardwaj, V., Bizyaev, D., Blake, C. H., Blanton, M. R., Blomqvist, M., ... Zinn, J. C. (2012). The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 203(2), 21. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21

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PY - 2012/12/1

Y1 - 2012/12/1

N2 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z ~ 0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z ~ 2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T eff <5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H] > -0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SEGUE-2. The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the APOGEE along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in 2014 December.

AB - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z ~ 0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z ~ 2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T eff <5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H] > -0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SEGUE-2. The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the APOGEE along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in 2014 December.

KW - atlases

KW - catalogs

KW - surveys

UR - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJS..203...21A

U2 - 10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21

DO - 10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21

M3 - Article

SN - 0067-0049

VL - 203

SP - 21

JO - Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

JF - Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

IS - 2

ER -

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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