Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release
Creators: name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Carr, Michael A.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Rockosi, Constance M.
name: Sekiguchi, Maki
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
name: Annis, James
name: Hayes, Jeffrey
name: Kinney, Ellynne
name: Long, Daniel C.
name: Seljak, Uroš
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Agüeros, Marcel Andre
name: Yanny, Brian
name: Allam, Sahar S.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Bahcall, Neta A.
name: Baldry, Ivan K.
name: Bernardi, Mariangela
name: Boroski, William N.
name: Briggs, John W.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Budavári, Tamás
name: Castander, Francisco J.
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Csabai, István
name: Doi, Mamoru
name: Dong, Feng
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Friedman, Scott D.
name: Fukugita, Masataka
name: Gillespie, Bruce
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: De Hass, Ernst
name: Gurbani, Vijay K.
name: Harris, Frederick H.
name: Hendry, John S.
name: Hennessy, Gregory S.
name: Jester, Sebastian
name: Johnston, David E.
name: Jorgensen, Anders M.
name: Jurić, Mario
name: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kniazev, Alexei Yu.
name: Krzesiński, Jurek
name: Leger, R. French
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Lin, Huan
name: Mannery, Ed
name: Martínez-Delgado, David
name: McGehee, Peregrine M.
name: Meiksin, Avery
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
name: Neilsen, Eric H.
name: Newman, Peter R.
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Pauls, George
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Rafikov, R. R.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Richmond, Michael W.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Schroeder, Joshua
name: Shimasaku, Kazu
name: Siegmund, Walter A.
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: Stebbins, Albert
name: Szalay, Alexander A.
name: Szokoly, Gyula P.
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Tucker, Douglas L.
name: Uomoto, Alan
name: Vanden Berk, Daniel E.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: West, Andrew A.
name: Yasuda, Naoki
name: Yocum, D. R.
name: York, Donald G.
name: Zehavi, Idit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Astrophysics
Imaging systems in astronomy
Stars--Observations
Astronomy

description: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional data were obtained during commissioning and subsequent testing of the SDSS observing system, and they provide unique wide-area imaging data in regions of high obscuration and star formation, including numerous young stellar objects, Herbig-Haro objects, and young star clusters. Because these data are outside the survey regions in the Galactic caps, they are not part of the standard SDSS data releases. This paper presents imaging data for 832 square degrees of sky (including repeats), in the star-forming regions of Orion, Taurus, and Cygnus. About 470 deg² are now released to the public, with the remainder to follow at the time of SDSS Data Release 4. The public data in Orion include the star-forming region NGC 2068/NGC 2071/HH 24 and a large part of Barnard's loop.