The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Abazajian, Kevork
name: Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Allam, Sahar S.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Annis, James
name: Bahcall, Neta A.
name: Baldry, Ivan K.
name: Bastian, Steven
name: Berlind, Andreas
name: Bernardi, Mariangela
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Blythe, Norman
name: Bochanski, John J.
name: Boroski, William N.
name: Brewington, Howard
name: Briggs, John W.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Budavári, Tamás
name: Carey, Larry N.
name: Carr, Michael A.
name: Castander, Francisco J.
name: Chiu, Kuenley
name: Collinge, Matthew J.
name: Connolly, A. J.
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Csabai, István
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
name: Dodelson, Scott
name: Doi, Mamoru
name: Dong, Feng
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Evans, Michael L.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Feldman, Paul D.
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Friedman, Scott D.
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Gal, Roy R.
name: Gillespie, Bruce
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Gonzalez, Carlos F.
name: Gray, Jim
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Grodnicki, Lauren
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Gurbani, Vijay K.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Hao, Lei
name: Harbeck, Daniel
name: Harris, Frederick H.
name: Harris, Hugh C.
name: Harvanek, Michael
name: Hawley, Suzanne L.
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Helmboldt, J. F.
name: Hendry, John S.
name: Hennessy, Gregory S.
name: Hindsley, Robert B.
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Holmgren, Donald J.
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Homer, Lee
name: Hui, Lam
name: Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi
name: Ichikawa, Takashi
name: Inkmann, John P.
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Johnston, David E.
name: Jordan, Beatrice
name: Jordan, Wendell P.
name: Jorgensen, Anders M.
name: Jurić, Mario
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Kniazev, Alexei Y.
name: Kron, Richard G.
name: Krzesiński, Jurek
name: Kunszt, Peter Z.
name: Kuropatkin, Nickolai
name: Lamb, Donald Q.
name: Lampeitl, Hubert
name: Laubscher, Bryan E.
name: Lee, Brian C.
name: Leger, R. French
name: Li, Nolan
name: Lidz, Adam
name: Lin, Huan
name: Loh, Yeong-Shang
name: Long, Daniel C.
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Malik, Tanu
name: Margon, Bruce
name: McGehee, Peregrine M.
name: McKay, Timothy A.
name: Meiksin, Avery
name: Miknaitis, Gajus A.
name: Moorthy, Bhasker K.
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Nakajima, Reiko
name: Narayanan, Vijay K.
name: Nash, Thomas
name: Neilsen, Eric H.
name: Newberg, Heidi Jo
name: Newman, Peter R.
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Nicinski, Tom
name: Nieto-Santisteban, Maria
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Odenkirchen, Michael
name: Okamura, Sadanori
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
name: Owen, Russell
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Peoples, John
name: Pier, Jeffrey R.
name: Pindor, Bartosz
name: Pope, Adrian C.
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Rafikov, R. R.
name: Raymond, Sean N.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Richmond, Michael W.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Rockosi, Constance M.
name: Schaye, Joop
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Schroeder, Joshua
name: Scranton, Ryan
name: Sekiguchi, Maki
name: Seljak, Uroš
name: Sergey, Gary
name: Sesar, Branimir
name: Sheldon, Erin
name: Shimasaku, Kazu
name: Siegmund, Walter A.
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Sinisgalli, Allan J.
name: Sirko, Edwin
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Smolčić, Vernesa
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: Stebbins, Albert
name: Steinhardt, Charles
name: Stinson, Gregory
name: Stoughton, Chris
name: Strateva, Iskra V.
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: SubbaRao, Mark
name: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: Szapudi, István
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Tasca, Lidia
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Thaka, Aniruddha R.
name: Tremonti, Christy
name: Tucker, Douglas L.
name: Uomoto, Alan
name: Vanden Berk, Daniel E.
name: Vandenberg, Jan
name: Vogeley, Michael S.
name: Voges, Wolfgang
name: Vogt, Nicole P.
name: Walkowicz, Lucianne M.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: White, Simon D. M.
name: Wilhite, Brian C.
name: Willman, Beth
name: Xu, Yongzhong
name: Yanny, Brian
name: Yargy, Jean
name: Yasuda, Naoki
name: Yip, Ching-Wa
name: Yocum, D. R.
name: York, Donald G.
name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
name: Zehavi, Idit
name: Zheng, Wei
name: Zibetti, Stefano
name: Zucker, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stars--Observations
Imaging systems in astronomy
Astronomy

description: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg² of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 1360 deg² of this area, and tables of measured parameters from these data. The imaging data go to a depth of r ≈ 22.6 and are photometrically and astrometrically calibrated to 2% rms and 100 mas rms per coordinate, respectively. The spectra cover the range 3800–9200 Å, with a resolution of 1800–2100. This paper describes the characteristics of the data with emphasis on improvements since the release of commissioning data (the SDSS Early Data Release) and serves as a pointer to extensive published and on-line documentation of the survey.