The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Allam, Sahar S.
name: Anderson, Kurt S. J.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Annis, James
name: Bahcall, Neta A.
name: Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.
name: Baldry, Ivan K.
name: Barentine, J. C.
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Belokurov, V.
name: Berlind, Andreas
name: Bernardi, Mariangela
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Bochanski, John J.
name: Boroski, William N.
name: Bramich, D. M.
name: Brewington, Howard J.
name: Brinchmann, Jarle
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Budavári, Tamás
name: Carey, Larry N.
name: Carliles, Samuel
name: Carr, Michael A.
name: Castander, Francisco J.
name: Connolly, A. J.
name: Cool, R. J.
name: Cunha, Carlos E.
name: Csabai, István
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
name: Doi, Mamoru
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Evans, Michael L.
name: Evans, N. W.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Friedman, Scott D.
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Gillespie, Bruce
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Gray, Jim
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: De Haas, Ernst
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Harvanek, Michael
name: Hawley, Suzanne L.
name: Hayes, Jeffrey
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Hendry, John S.
name: Hennessy, Gregory S.
name: Hindsley, Robert B.
name: Hirata, Christopher M.
name: Hogan, Craig J.
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi
name: Ichikawa, Takashi
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Johnston, David E.
name: Jorgensen, Anders M.
name: Jurić, Mario
name: Kauffman, Guinevere
name: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Kniazev, Alexei Yu.
name: Kron, Richard G.
name: Krzesinski, Jurek
name: Kuropatkin, Nikolay
name: Lamb, Donald Q.
name: Lampeitl, Hubert
name: Lee, Brian C.
name: Leger, R. French
name: Lima, Marcos
name: Lin, Huan
name: Long, Daniel C.
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Mandelbaum, Rachel
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Martínez-Delgado, David
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: McGehee, Peregrine M.
name: McKay, Timothy A.
name: Meiksin, Avery
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
name: Nakajima, Reiko
name: Nash, Thomas
name: Neilsen, Eric H.
name: Newberg, Heidi Jo
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Nieto-Santisteban, Maria
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Oyaizu, Hiroaki
name: Okamura, Sadanori
name: Ostricker, Jeremiah P.
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Park, Changbom
name: Peoples, John
name: Pier, Jeffrey R.
name: Pope, Adrian C.
name: Pourbaix, Dimitri
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Raddick, M. Jordan
name: Re Fiorentin, Paola
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Richmond, Michael W.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Rockosi, Constance M.
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Scranton, Ryan
name: Seljak, Uroš
name: Sheldon, Erin
name: Shimasaku, Kazu
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Smolčić, Vernesa
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: Stebbins, Albert
name: Stoughton, Chris
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: SubbaRao, Mark
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: Szapudi, István
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Thakar, Aniruddha R.
name: Tremonti, Christy
name: Tucker, Douglas L.
name: Uomoto, Alan
name: Vanden Berk, Daniel E.
name: Vandenberg, Jan
name: Vidrih, S.
name: Vogeley, Michael S.
name: Voges, Wolfgang
name: Vogt, Nicole P.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: White, Simon D. M.
name: Wilhite, Brian
name: Yanny, Brian
name: Yocum, D. R.
name: York, Donald G.
name: Zehavi, Idit
name: Zibetti, Stefano
name: Zucker, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stars--Observations
Imaging systems in astronomy
Astronomy

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.