The Third 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, Kurt S. J.
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: Bochanski, John J.
name: Boroski, William N.
name: Brewington, Howard J.
name: Briggs, John W.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Budavári, Tamás
name: Carey, Larry N.
name: Castander, Francisco J.
name: Connolly, A. J.
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Csabai, István
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
name: Doi, Mamoru
name: Dong, Feng
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Evans, Michael L.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Friedman, Scott D.
name: Frieman, Joshua A.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Gillespie, Bruce
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Gray, Jim
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Gurbani, Vijay K.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Hamabe, Masaru
name: Harris, Frederick H.
name: Harris, Hugh C.
name: Harvanek, Michael
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Hendry, John S.
name: Hennessy, Gregory S.
name: Hindsley, Robert B.
name: Hogan, Craig J.
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Holmgren, Donald J.
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: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Kniazev, Alexei Yu.
name: Kron, Richard G.
name: Krzesiński, Jurek
name: Lamb, Donald Q.
name: Lampeitl, Hubert
name: Lee, Brian C.
name: Lin, Huan
name: Long, Daniel C.
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Mannery, Ed
name: Margon, Bruce
name: Martínez-Delgado, David
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
name: McGehee, Peregrine M.
name: McKay, Timothy A.
name: Meiksin, Avery
name: Ménard, Brice
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
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: Okamura, Sadanori
name: O'Mullane, William
name: Owen, Russell
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Pauls, George
name: Peoples, John
name: Pier, Jeffrey R.
name: Pope, Adrian C.
name: Pourbaix, Dimitri
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Raddick, M. Jordan
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: Schroeder, Joshua
name: Scranton, Ryan
name: Sekiguchi, Maki
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: Szalay, Alexander S.
name: Szapudi, István
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Szokoly, Gyula P.
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Teodoro, Luis
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: Wang, Shu-I
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: White, Simon D. M.
name: Wilhite, Brian C.
name: Xu, Yongzhong
name: Yanny, Brian
name: Yasuda, Naoki
name: Yip, Ching-Wa
name: Yocum, D. R.
name: York, Donald G.
name: Zehavi, Idit
name: Zibetti, Stefano
name: Zucker, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stars--Observations
Imaging systems in astronomy
Astronomy

description: This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg², photometric and astrometric catalogs of the 141 million objects detected in these imaging data, and spectra of 528,640 objects selected over 4188 deg². The pipelines analyzing both images and spectroscopy are unchanged from those used in our Second Data Release.