===================== SDSS TECHNICAL PAPERS ===================== I. Data Release Papers II. Published Technical Papers III. Posted but not Published Technical Papers IV. SDSS-I Technical Papers Still to be Written V. Other Useful References (conference proceedings and the like) ---------------------- I. Data Release Papers ---------------------- Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release. Stoughton, C., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 485 The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Abazajian, K., et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 2081 The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Abazajian, K., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 502 The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Abazajian, K., et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 1755 The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Adelman-McCarthy, J.K., et al. 2006, ApJS, 162, 38 The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Adelman-McCarthy, J.K., et al. 2007, ApJS, 172, 634 The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Adelman-McCarthy, J.K., et al. 2006, ApJS, 175, 297 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release. Finkbeiner, D.P., et al. 2004, AJ, 128, 2577 ------------------------------ II. Published Technical Papers ------------------------------ The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System. Fukugita, M., Ichikawa, T., Gunn, J.E., Doi, M., Shimasaku, K., and Schneider, D.P., 1996, AJ, 111, 1748 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera. Gunn, J.E., et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 3040 A Modified Magnitude Scale Able to Handle Noisy Fluxes and Non-Detections. Lupton, R.H., Gunn, J.E., and Szalay, A. 1999, AJ, 118, 1406 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary. York, D.G., et al. 2000, AJ, 120, 1579 A Photometricity and Extinction Monitor at the Apache Point Observatory. Hogg, D.W., Finkbeiner, D.P., Schlegel, D.J., and Gunn, J.E. 2001, AJ, 2001, 122, 2129 Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample. Eisenstein, D.J., et al. 2001, AJ, 122, 2267 The u'g'r'i'z' Standard Star System. Smith, J.A., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2121 Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample. Strauss, M.A., et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 1810, 2002 Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Quasars. Richards, G.T., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2945 Astrometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Pier, J.R., Munn, J.A., Hindsley, R.B., Hennessy, G.S., Kent, S.M., Lupton, R.H., and Ivezic, Z. 2003, AJ, 125, 1559 An Efficient Algorithm for Positioning Tiles in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Blanton, M.R., Lupton, R.H, Maley, F.M, Young, N., Zehavi, I, and Loveday, J., 2003, AJ 125, 2276 SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment. Ivezic, Z., et al. 2004, AN, 325, No. 68, 583 The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Gunn, J.E., et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 2332 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline. Tucker, D. et al. 2006, AN, 327, 821 The SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary. Frieman, J.A., et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 338 The SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations. Sako, M., et al. 2008, AJ, 135, 348 An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Padmanabhan, N., et al. 2008, ApJ, 674, 1217 --------------------------------------------- III. Posted but not Published Technical Papers --------------------------------------------- SDSS Image Processing I: The Deblender. Lupton, R.H. (SDSS paper 512) The SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. I. Description and Initial Validation Tests. Lee, Y.S., et al (SDSS paper 791) The SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. II. Validatioon with Galactic Globular and Open Clusters. Lee, Y.S., et al (SDSS paper 792) The SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. III. Comparison with High-Resolution Spectroscopy of SDSS/SEGUE Field Stars. Allende-Prieto, C., et al. (SDSS paper 819) ------------------------------------------------ IV. SDSS-I Technical Papers Still to be Written ------------------------------------------------ SDSS Operations. Scot Kleinman et al. Begun August 2006 Seeing, transparency etc statistics. Summary of SDSS instruments Authors -? The APO/Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seeing Monitor and Cloud Camera Systems authors? The SDSS Spectrographs A. Uomoto, S. Smee et al. Photo II: Overview, Architecture, Outputs R. Lupton et al., responsible author Knapp Photo III: Algorithms R. Lupton et al Photo III: Star-Galaxy Separation R. Lupton et al Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Stars (responsible author Knapp) Fiber Mapper D. Schlegel, D. Finkbeiner et al Spectro-2D D. Schlegel, S. Burles Spectro 1D J. Frieman, M. Subbarao, M. Bernardi et al Spectroscopy: QA ?? The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Acquisition and Observing Systems D. Petravick et al. (where does discussion of IOP, MOP etc belong?) Calibration of the 2.5 m Photometry (this effort still underway, so no predicting when it can be written up) DR1 Photometry and Transformations to Johnson-Cousins UBVRI E. K. Grebel et al. Data Processing System C. Stoughton et al. Survey Strategy and Operations S. Kent, R. Kron et al SDSS Science Data Base A. Szalay et al SDSS Target Selection Pipeline Dan Vandenberk et al. Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: ROSAT Matches S. Anderson, B. Margon Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Serendipity S. Anderson, B. Margon, -- (combine with ROSAT paper?) Plate Design (standards, light trap holes, guide fibers etc) S. Kent et al. Fiber Positioning System and Fiber Performance W. Siegmund et al SEGUE ------ 1. Overview 2. SEGUE Target Selection 3. Photometric Calibration 4. Low-latitude photometry: crowded fields, patchiness, dust 5. ugriz <---> UBVRI conversion: 6. Spectro ('2D/1D') pipeline: plus data releases ------------------------------------------------------------------ V. Other Useful References (conference proceedings and the like) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.5m Telescope -------------- Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope enclosure: flow visualization. Comfort, C.H., Matheson, M., Limmongkol, S., and Siegmund, W.A., 1994, Proc. SPIE, 2199, 1074 Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope enclosure: design. Hull, C., Limmongkol, S., and Siegmund, W.A. 1994, Proc. SPIE, 2199, 1178 Flat fielding screen for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5 meter telescope. S.H.C.P. McCall and W.A. Siegmund, 1994, Proc. SPIE, 2198, 1385 Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5-m telescope: light baffles. W. Siegmund, S. Limmongkol, E. J. Mannery, C. Hull and D. Milsom, 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3352, 653 Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5-m telescope: optics. Patrick Waddell, Edward J. Mannery, James E. Gunn, and Stephen M. Kent, 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3352, 742 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Performance Monitor. McGehee, P., et al. 2002, Proc. SPIE, 4848, 156 Spectroscopic System -------------------- The First Hour of Extragalactic Data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopic Commissioning: The Coma Cluster. Castander, F.J., et al. 2001, AJ, 121, 2331 Mass-Producing Spectra: The SDSS Spectrographic System. Newman, P.R., et al. 2004, Proc. SPIE 5492, 533 Spectrographs ------------- Fiber Positioning System for the Digital Sky Survey. Limmongkol, S., Owen, R., Siegmund, W.A., and Hull, C.L. 1992, in Fiber Optics in Astronomy II, ed. P. Gray, ASP Conf. Ser, p127 Fiber Feed for the SDSS Spectrograph. R. E. Owen, W. A. Siegmund, S. Limmongkol & C.L. Hull, 1994, Proc. SPIE, 2198, 110 Performance of the Fiber Positioning System for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. W. A. Siegmund, R. E. Owen, J. Granderson, C. L. Hull, R. F. Leger, E. Mannery and P. Waddell, 1998, in Fiber Optics in Astronomy III, ed. S. Arribas, E. Mediavilla and F. Watson, A.S.P. Conference Series, (San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific) p92. Status of the Fiber Feed for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. R. E. Owen, M. J. Buffaloe, C. L. Hull, R. F. Leger, E. J. Mannery, W. A. Siegmund and P. Waddell, 1998, in Fiber Optics in Astronomy III, ed. S. Arribas, E. Mediavilla and F. Watson, A.S.P. Conference Series, (San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 98. Auxiliary Instruments ---------------------- Sloan Digital Sky Survey Cloud Scanner. Hull, C.L., Limmongkol, S., and Siegmund, W.A., 1994, Proc. of SPIE, 2199, 852 Target Selection ---------------- Three-Dimensional Parameterization of the Stellar Locus with Respect to QSO Color Selection. Newberg, H.J., and Yanny, B. 1997, ApJS 113, 89 The Recognition of Unusual Objects in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Color System. Krisciunas, K., Margon, B., and Szkody, P. 1998, PASP, 110, 1342 Synthetic SDSS Photometry for Stars. Lenz, D., Newberg, H.J., Rosner, R., Richards, G.T., and Stoughton, C. 1998, ApJS 119, 121 Simulation of Stellar Objects in SDSS Color Space. Fan, X. 1999, AJ, 117, 2528 Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0