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1. Subaru Night-Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS): fiber cable construction

Author: Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, James E. Gunn, Ligia S. de Oliveira, Lucas S. Marrara, Leandro H. dos Santos, Josimar A. Rosa, Décio Ferreira, Craig P. Loomis, Robert Lupton, Yuki Moritani, Naruhisa Takato, and Naoyuki Tamura
Published: 2022
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2. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase

Author: Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Kiyoto Yabe, Yuki Ishizuka, Yukiko Kamata, Ali Allaoui, Akira Arai, Stéphane Arnouts, Robert H. Barkhouser, Rudy Barette, Patrick Blanchard, Eddie Bergeron, Neven Caplar, Pierre-Yves Chabaud, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Chueh-Yi Chou, You-Hua Chu, Judith G. Cohen, Ricardo L. da Costa, Thibaut Crauchet, Rodrigo P. de Almeida, Antonio Cesar . de Oliveira, Ligia S. de Oliveira, Kjetil Dohlen, Leandro H. dos Santos, Richard S. Ellis, Maximilian Fabricius, Décio Ferreira, Hisanori Furusawa, Jahmour J. Givans, Javier Garciá-Carpio, Mirek Golebiowski, Aidan C. Gray, James E. Gunn, Satoshi Hamano, Randolph P. Hammond, Albert Harding, Kota Hayashi, Wanqiu He, Timothy M. Heckman, Stephen C. Hope, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yen-Shan Hu, Pin Jie Huang, Miho N. Ishigaki, Eric Jeschke, Yipeng Jing, Erin Kado-Fong, Jennifer L. Karr, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Masahiko Kimura, Michitaro Koike, Eiichiro Komatsu, Shintaro Koshida, Vincent Le Brun, Arnaud Le Fur, David Le Mignant, Romain Lhoussaine, Yen-Ting Lin, Hung-Hsu Ling, Craig P. Loomis, Robert . Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Danilo Marchesini, Edouard Marguerite, Lucas S. Marrara, Dmitry Medvedev, Sogo Mineo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Takahiro Morishima, Kazumi Murata, Hitoshi Murayama, Graham J. Murray, Hirofumi Okita, Masato Onodera, Joshua P. Peebles, Paul Price, Tae-Soo Pyo, Lucio Ramos, Daniel J. Reiley, Martin Reinecke, Mitsuko K. Roberts, Josimar A. Rosa, Julien . Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Michael D. Seiffert, Kiaina Schubert, Hassan Siddiqui, Stephen A. Smee, Laerte Sodré, Michael A. Strauss, Christian Surace, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Philip J. Tait, Masahiro Takada, Yuhei Takagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Yoko Tanaka, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Didier Vibert, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chih-Yi Wen, Suzanne Werner, Matthew Wung, Gerald Lemson, Arik Mitschang, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroshige Yoshida, Chi-Hung Yan, Michitoshi Yoshida, Takuji Yamashita, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Abstract: International audience; PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is now being tested on the telescope. The instrument is equipped with very wide (1.3 degrees in diameter) field of view on the Subaru's prime focus, high multiplexity by 2394 reconfigurable fibers, and wide waveband spectrograph that covers from 380nm to 1260nm simultaneously in one exposure. Currently engineering observations are ongoing with Prime Focus Instrument (PFI), Metrology Camera System (MCS), the first spectrpgraph module (SM1) with visible cameras and the first fiber cable providing optical link between PFI and SM1. Among the rest of the hardware, the second fiber cable has been already installed on the telescope and in the dome building since April 2022, and the two others were also delivered in June 2022. The integration and test of next SMs including near-infrared cameras are ongoing for timely deliveries. The progress in the software development is also worth noting. The instrument control software delivered with the subsystems is being well integrated with its system-level layer, the telescope system, observation planning software and associated databases. The data reduction pipelines are also rapidly progressing especially since sky spectra started being taken in early 2021 using Subaru Nigh Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS), and more recently using PFI during the engineering observations. In parallel to these instrumentation activities, the PFS science team in the collaboration is timely formulating a plan of large-sky survey observation to be proposed and conducted as a Subaru Strategic Program (SSP) from 2024. In this article, we report these recent progresses, ongoing developments and future perspectives of the PFS instrumentation.
Published: 2022
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3. Prime focus spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: the prime focus instrument

Author: Shiang-Yu Wang, Masahiko Kimura, Chi-Hung Yan, Yin-Chang Chang, Shu-Fu Hsu, Jennifer L. Karr, Hsin-Yo Chen, Pin-Jie Huang, Chih-Yi Wen, Chueh-Yi Chou, Hung-Hsu Ling, Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Julien Rousselle, Hiroshige Yoshida, Shintaro Koshida, Naruhisa Takato, Dan J. Reiley, Mitsuko Roberts, James E. Gunn, Craig P. Loomis, Robert . Lupton, Neven Caplar, Hassan Siddiqui, Décio Ferreira, Leandro H. dos Santos, Ligia S. de Oliveira, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Lucas Souza Marrara, Maximilian Fabricius, and Graham J. Murray
Published: 2022
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4. Prime focus spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: 2D modeling of the point spread function

Author: Neven Caplar, Robert Lupton, James E. Gunn, Hassan Siddiqui, Paul Price, Craig P. Loomis, Arnaud LeFur, and Joshua E. Meyers
Published: 2022
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5. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: a next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming

Author: Albert Harding, Yuki Okura, Lucio Ramos, Masahiro Takada, Satoshi Takita, Yuki Moritani, Masahiko Kimura, Michitoshi Yoshida, Aidan Gray, Judith G. Cohen, Michael A. Strauss, Richard S. Ellis, Mohamed Belhadi, Alain Schmitt, Josimar A. Rosa, Naoki Yasuda, Daniel J. Reiley, Hassan Siddiqui, Tomonori Tamura, Martin Reinecke, Yipeng Jing, David Le Mignant, Ricardo Costa, Leandro Henrique dos Santos, You-Hua Chu, Yen Shan Hu, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Naruhisa Takato, Yoshihiko Yamada, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Youichi Ohyama, Michitaro Koike, Kjetil Dohlen, Yoko Tanaka, Pierre Yves Chabaud, Christian Surace, Takuji Yamashita, Murdock Hart, Olivier Le Fèvre, Kiyoto Yabe, James E. Gunn, Hisanori Furusawa, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Arnaud Le Fur, Robert H. Lupton, Hitoshi Murayama, Yukiko Kamata, Michael A. Carr, Yin Chang Chang, Robert H. Barkhouser, Shiang-Yu Wang, F. Madec, Graham J. Murray, Erin Kado-Fong, Philippe Balard, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Rudy Barette, Jill Burnham, Masato Onodera, Randolph Hammond, Naoyuki Tamura, Michael Seiffert, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Vincent Le Brun, Timothy M. Heckman, Chih Yi Wen, Thibaut Crahchet, D. Vibert, Julien Rousselle, Mira Sarkis, Mitsuko Roberts, Jennifer L. Karr, Stephen C. Hope, M. Golebiowski, Yuki Ishizuka, Edouard Marguerite, Chueh Yi Chou, Hirofumi Okita, Masayuki Tanaka, Joe D. Orndorff, Eric Jeschke, Kiaina Schubert, Stephen A. Smee, Joshua Peebles, Hsin Yo Chen, Craig P. Loomis, Ali Allaoui, Sogo Mineo, Décio Ferreira, Eiichiro Komatsu, Rodrigo P. de Almeida, Chi-Hung Yan, Matthew Wung, Javier Garcia-Carpio, Sandrine Pascal, Stéphane Arnouts, Danilo Marchesini, Philip J. Tait, Laerte Sodré, S. Koshida, Suzanne Werner, Lucas Souza Marrara, Ping Jie Huang, Dmitry Medvedev, Hung Hsu Ling, Maximilian Fabricius, Neven Caplar, Shu Fu Hsu, Hiroshige Yoshida, and M. Jaquet
Subjects: Optical fiber cable, Focus (computing), Engineering, business.industry, Field of view, law.invention, Software, Observatory, law, Systems engineering, Instrumentation (computer programming), business, Subaru Telescope, Spectrograph
Abstract: PFS (Prime Focus Spectrograph), a next generation facility instrument on the Subaru telescope, is a very wide- field, massively multiplexed, and optical and near-infrared spectrograph. Exploiting the Subaru prime focus, 2394 reconfigurable fibers will be distributed in the 1.3 degree-diameter field of view. The spectrograph system has been designed with 3 arms of blue, red, and near-infrared cameras to simultaneously deliver spectra from 380nm to 1260nm in one exposure. The instrumentation has been conducted by the international collaboration managed by the project office hosted by Kavli IPMU. The team is actively integrating and testing the hardware and software of the subsystems some of which such as Metrology Camera System, the first Spectrograph Module, and the first on-telescope fiber cable have been delivered to the Subaru telescope observatory at the summit of Maunakea since 2018. The development is progressing in order to start on-sky engineering observation in 2021, and science operation in 2023. In parallel, the collaboration is trying to timely develop a plan of large-sky survey observation to be proposed and conducted in the framework of Subaru Strategic Program (SSP). This article gives an overview of the recent progress, current status and future perspectives of the instrumentation and scientific operation.
Published: 2021
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6. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): the metrology camera system

Author: James E. Gunn, Jennifer L. Karr, Yin-Chang Chang, Chi-Hung Yan, Hassan Siddiqui, Shu-Fu Hsu, Pin-Jie Huang, Daniel J. Reiley, Naruhisa Takato, Naoyuki Tamura, Yuki Moritani, Chueh-Yi Chou, Shiang-Yu Wang, Craig P. Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Yen-Shan Hu, Evans, Christopher J., Bryant, Julia J., and Motohara, Kentaro
Subjects: CMOS sensor, Cardinal point, business.industry, Computer science, Image quality, Cassegrain reflector, Image processing, business, Subaru Telescope, Spectrograph, Computer hardware, Metrology
Abstract: The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph designed for the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope. PFS will cover a 1.3 degree diameter field with 2394 fibers to complement the imaging capabilities of Hyper SuprimeCam. To retain high throughput, the final positioning accuracy between the fibers and observing targets of PFS is required to be less than 10 µ m. The metrology camera system (MCS) serves as the optical encoder of the fiber positioners for configuring of fibers. The MCS locates at the Cassegrain focus of the Subaru telescope to cover the whole focal plane with one 50M pixel CMOS sensor. The information from MCS will be fed into the fiber positioner control system for closed loop control. The MCS was delivered to Subaru Observatory in Apr. 2018 and it had two engineering runs in Oct. 2018 and Aug. 2019. The 1st engineering run concluded that the original mirror supports need to be improved to provide better image quality. The newly designed mirror supports were installed before the 2nd engineering run. The 2nd engineering run result shows that the MCS overall position accuracy is better than 4μm and the image processing time is less than 4 seconds. The MCS is ready for the system integration with other PFS components.
Published: 2020
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7. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): the prime focus instrument

Author: Yen-Shan Hu, Masahiko Kimura, James E. Gunn, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Hassan Siddiqui, Richard C. Y. Chou, Shu-Fu Hsu, Yin-Chang Chang, Craig P. Loomis, Naoyuki Tamura, Hung-Hsu Ling, Jennifer L. Karr, Graham J. Murray, C.-Y. Wen, Yuki Moritani, Leandro Henrique dos Santos, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chi-Hung Yan, Hsin-Yo Chen, Décio Ferreira, Daniel J. Reiley, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Naruhisa Takato, Mitsuko Roberts, Lucas Souza Marrara, Pin-Jie Huang, Robert H. Lupton, Evans, Christopher J., Bryant, Julia J., and Motohara, Kentaro
Subjects: Focus (computing), Scanner, Optics, Computer science, business.industry, Interface (computing), Special care, Subaru Telescope, Fiducial marker, business, Spectrograph, Prime (order theory)
Abstract: The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph design for the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope. PFS will cover 1.3 degrees diameter field with 2394 fibers to complement the imaging capability of Hyper SuprimeCam (HSC). The prime focus unit of PFS called Prime Focus Instrument (PFI) provides the interface with the top structure of Subaru telescope and also accommodates the optical bench in which Cobra fiber positioners and fiducial fibers are located. In addition, the acquisition and guiding cameras (AGCs), the cable wrapper, the fiducial fiber illuminator, and viewer, the field element, and the telemetry system are located inside the PFI. The mechanical structure of the PFI was designed with special care such that its deflections sufficiently match those of the HSC’s Wide Field Corrector (WFC) so the fibers will stay on targets over the course of the observations within the required accuracy. The delivery of PFI components started in 2017. After the verification of these components, the mechanical structure of the PFI is fully assembled in early 2019 and all Cobra positioners are integrated in summer 2020. A temperature controlled chamber with precise x-y scanner was setup for the verification of the fiber positioners. The testing of the target convergence performance of Cobra positioners is now in progress.
Published: 2020

8. Software development of fiber positioning sequencer for prime focus spectrograph of Subaru telescope

Author: Shiang-Yu Wang, Robert H. Lupton, Jennifer L. Karr, Craig P. Loomis, Hrand Aghazarian, Naoyuki Tamura, Chi-Hung Yan, Atsushi Shimono, C.-Y. Wen, and Johannes Gross
Subjects: Positioning system, Computer science, business.industry, Fiber (computer science), Software development, Centroid algorithm, business, Subaru Telescope, Focus (optics), Spectrograph, Prime (order theory), Computer hardware
Abstract: The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a new optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph designed for the prime focus of the 8.2m Subaru telescope. PFS will cover a 1.3-degree diameter field with 2394 fibers to complement the imaging capability of Hyper SuprimeCam (HSC). The Fiber Positioning System (FPS) is an automated system that controls the sequences for the operation of the PFS subsystems to achieve accurate positioning of the science fibers for astronomical observations. FPS will be operated continuously for 14 hours a night and accomplish the fiber positioning sequence every 15 minutes. The success rate of each alignment should be 95% or more and FPS should finish the fiber alignment procedure in 105 seconds. A fast centroid algorithm is implemented for measuring 2349 fiber spots within 1 second. In this report, the latest status of the development of FPS system will be given, including the system performance and closed-loop simulations.
Published: 2018
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9. Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality

Author: Masashi Chiba, Craig P. Loomis, Yoshihiko Yamada, Fumiaki Nakata, Yousuke Utsumi, Yutaka Komiyama, Toshifumi Futamase, Yao Cheng Lee, Yoshinori Miwa, Fumihiro Uraguchi, Paul T. P. Ho, Kyoji Nariai, Tomio Kurakami, Takashi Hamana, Yutaka Ezaki, Yoshiyuki Obuchi, Michael A. Strauss, Hideo Yokota, Dun Zen Jeng, Yukiko Kamata, Kazuyuki Kasumi, Satoru Iwamura, Eric J.-Y. Liaw, Naoki Yasuda, Hiroki Fujimori, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Hisanori Furusawa, Noboru Ito, Tadafumi Takata, Hisanori Suzuki, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, Chi Fang Chiu, Yusuke Hayashi, Robert Armstrong, Tomonori Usuda, Makoto Endo, Masamune Oguri, Hitomi Yamanoi, Hiroaki Aihara, Hitoshi Murayama, Robert H. Lupton, Kohei Imoto, Masaharu Muramatsu, Naoto Dojo, Michitaro Koike, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Kotaro Akutsu, Satoshi Miyazaki, Tomohisa Uchida, Satoshi Sofuku, James E. Gunn, Hiroshi Karoji, Masayuki Tanaka, Toru Matsuda, Masayuki Suzuki, Koei Yamamoto, Tomoaki Taniike, Daigo Tomono, Masahiro Takada, Edwin L. Turner, Kunio Takeshi, Yukie Oishi, Hironao Miyatake, Kazuhito Namikawa, H. Nakaya, Shoken Miyama, Tsang Chih Lai, Sogo Mineo, Norio Okada, Manobu M. Tanaka, Naoshi Sugiyama, Tsuyoshi Terai, James Bosch, Paul A. Price, Philip J. Tait, Shiang-Yu Wang, Yuki Okura, Yoshiyuki Doi, Hsin Yo Chen, Yoko Tanaka, Noboru Kawaguchi, Steve Bickerton, Tomoki Morokuma, Steward Smith, Cheng Lin Ho, and Yasuhito Miyazaki
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, Image quality, business.industry, 0103 physical sciences, Systems design, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation (computer programming), business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Computer hardware
Published: 2017
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10. First light of the CHARIS high-contrast integral-field spectrograph

Author: Timothy D. Brandt, Michael Galvin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Olivier Guyon, Craig P. Loomis, Tyler D. Groff, Julien Lozi, Naruhisa Takato, Gillian R. Knapp, Maxime Rizzo, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Thayne Currie, Masahiko Hayashi, Jeffrey Chilcote, and Shaklan, Stuart
Subjects: Physics, Optics, Integral field spectrograph, Observatory, business.industry, First light, Spectral resolution, Adaptive optics, business, Subaru Telescope, Spectrograph, Exoplanet
Abstract: One of the leading direct Imaging techniques, particularly in ground-based imaging, uses a coronagraphic system and integral field spectrograph (IFS). The Coronagraphic High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (CHARIS) is an IFS that has been built for the Subaru telescope. CHARIS has been delivered to the observatory and now sits behind the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system. CHARIS has ‘high’ and ‘low’ resolution operating modes. The high-resolution mode is used to characterize targets in J, H, and K bands at R70. The low-resolution prism is meant for discovery and spans J+H+K bands (1.15-2.37 microns) with a spectral resolution of R18. This discovery mode has already proven better than 15-sigma detections of HR8799c,d,e when combining ADI+SDI. Using SDI alone, planets c and d have been detected in a single 24 second image. The CHARIS team is optimizing instrument performance and refining ADI+SDI recombination to maximize our contrast detection limit. In addition to the new observing modes, CHARIS has demonstrated a design with high robustness to spectral crosstalk. CHARIS has completed commissioning and is open for science observations.
Published: 2017

11. The survey operation software system development for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope

Author: Craig P. Loomis, Nao Suzuki, Atsushi Shimono, Naruhisa Takato, Yuki Moritani, Naoki Yasuda, Kiyoto Yabe, Naoyuki Tamura, and Robert H. Lupton
Subjects: Instrument control, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Pipeline (software), Data modeling, Software, Data model, 0103 physical sciences, Systems engineering, Software system, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, Subaru Telescope, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Spectrograph, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract: The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is a wide-field, multi-object spectrograph accommodating 2394 fibers to observe the sky at the prime focus of the Subaru telescope. The software system to operate a spectroscopic survey is structured by the four packages: Instrument control software, exposure targeting software, data reduction pipeline, and survey planning and tracking software. In addition, we operate a database system where various information such as properties of target objects, instrument configurations, and observation conditions is stored and is organized via a standardized data model for future references to update survey plans and to scientific researches. In this article, we present an overview of the software system and describe the workflows that need to be performed in the PFS operation, with some highlights on the database that organizes various information from sub-processes in the survey operation, and on the process of fiber configuration from the software perspectives., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures; SPIE (2016) 9913-88
Published: 2016
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12. Detecting active comets in the SDSS

Author: Andrew A. West, Thomas R. Quinn, Andrew C. Becker, Michael Solontoi, Steve Kent, Patrick B. Hall, Mark Claire, Robert H. Lupton, Mario Juric, Željko Ivezić, Lynne Jones, Gillian R. Knapp, James E. Gunn, Craig P. Loomis, and Donald P. Schneider
Subjects: Physics, Solar System, media_common.quotation_subject, Comet, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Astrophysics, Jovian, Cosmology, Photometry (optics), Apparent magnitude, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: Using a sample of serendipitously discovered active comets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we develop well-controlled selection criteria for greatly increasing the efficiency of comet identification in the SDSS catalogs. After follow-up visual inspection of images to reject remaining false positives, the total sample of SDSS comets presented here contains 19 objects, roughly one comet per 10 million other SDSS objects. The good understanding of selection effects allows a study of the population statistics, and we estimate the apparent magnitude distribution to r {approx} 18, the ecliptic latitude distribution, and the comet distribution in SDSS color space. The most surprising results are the extremely narrow range of colors for comets in our sample (e.g. root-mean-square scatter of only {approx}0.06 mag for the g-r color), and the similarity of comet colors to those of jovian Trojans. We discuss the relevance of our results for upcoming deep multi-epoch optical surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey, Pan-STARRS, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), and estimate that LSST may produce a sample of about 10,000 comets over its 10-year lifetime.
Published: 2010
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13. THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

Author: Kevork N. Abazajian, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, Marcel A. Agüeros, Sahar S. Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Deokkeun An, Kurt S. J. Anderson, Scott F. Anderson, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, J. C. Barentine, Bruce A. Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, Vasily Belokurov, Andreas A. Berlind, Eileen F. Berman, Mariangela Bernardi, Steven J. Bickerton, Dmitry Bizyaev, John P. Blakeslee, Michael R. Blanton, John J. Bochanski, William N. Boroski, Howard J. Brewington, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Robert J. Brunner, Tamás Budavári, Larry N. Carey, Samuel Carliles, Michael A. Carr, Francisco J. Castander, David Cinabro, A. J. Connolly, István Csabai, Carlos E. Cunha, Paul C. Czarapata, James R. A. Davenport, Ernst de Haas, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael L. Evans, N. W. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Scott D. Friedman, Joshua A. Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Boris T. Gänsicke, Evalyn Gates, Bruce Gillespie, G. Gilmore, Belinda Gonzalez, Carlos F. Gonzalez, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Zsuzsanna Györy, Patrick B. Hall, Paul Harding, Frederick H. Harris, Michael Harvanek, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes, Timothy M. Heckman, John S. Hendry, Gregory S. Hennessy, Robert B. Hindsley, J. Hoblitt, Craig J. Hogan, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Joseph B. Hyde, Shin-ichi Ichikawa, Takashi Ichikawa, Myungshin Im, Željko Ivezić, Sebastian Jester, Linhua Jiang, Jennifer A. Johnson, Anders M. Jorgensen, Mario Jurić, Stephen M. Kent, R. Kessler, S. J. Kleinman, G. R. Knapp, Kohki Konishi, Richard G. Kron, Jurek Krzesinski, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Hubert Lampeitl, Svetlana Lebedeva, Myung Gyoon Lee, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Nolan Li, Marcos Lima, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Jon Loveday, Robert H. Lupton, Eugene Magnier, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Bruce Margon, John P. Marriner, David Martínez-Delgado, Takahiko Matsubara, Peregrine M. McGehee, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Heather L. Morrison, Fergal Mullally, Jeffrey A. Munn, Tara Murphy, Thomas Nash, Ada Nebot, Eric H. Neilsen, Heidi Jo Newberg, Peter R. Newman, Robert C. Nichol, Tom Nicinski, Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Atsuko Nitta, Sadanori Okamura, Daniel J. Oravetz, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, Changbom Park, George Pauls, John Peoples, Will J. Percival, Jeffrey R. Pier, Adrian C. Pope, Dimitri Pourbaix, Paul A. Price, Norbert Purger, Thomas Quinn, M. Jordan Raddick, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Michael W. Richmond, Adam G. Riess, Hans-Walter Rix, Constance M. Rockosi, Masao Sako, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Ralf-Dieter Scholz, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel D. Schwope, Uroš Seljak, Branimir Sesar, Erin Sheldon, Kazu Shimasaku, Valena C. Sibley, A. E. Simmons, Thirupathi Sivarani, J. Allyn Smith, Martin C. Smith, Vernesa Smolčić, Stephanie A. Snedden, Albert Stebbins, Matthias Steinmetz, Chris Stoughton, Michael A. Strauss, Mark SubbaRao, Yasushi Suto, Alexander S. Szalay, István Szapudi, Paula Szkody, Masayuki Tanaka, Max Tegmark, Luis F. A. Teodoro, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Christy A. Tremonti, Douglas L. Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Jan Vandenberg, S. Vidrih, Michael S. Vogeley, Wolfgang Voges, Nicole P. Vogt, Yogesh Wadadekar, Shannon Watters, David H. Weinberg, Andrew A. West, Simon D. M. White, Brian C. Wilhite, Alainna C. Wonders, Brian Yanny, D. R. Yocum, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi, Stefano Zibetti, and Daniel B. Zucker
Subjects: Cosmology and Gravitation, Astronomy, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, atlases, catalogs, surveys, law.invention, Photometry (optics), law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Imaging systems in astronomy, Stars--Observations, Celestial equator, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrometry, Astrograph, Galaxy, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Sky
Abstract: This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11663 deg^2 of imaging data, with most of the roughly 2000 deg^2 increment over the previous data release lying in regions of low Galactic latitude. The catalog contains five-band photometry for 357 million distinct objects. The survey also includes repeat photometry over 250 deg^2 along the Celestial Equator in the Southern Galactic Cap. A coaddition of these data goes roughly two magnitudes fainter than the main survey. The spectroscopy is now complete over a contiguous area of 7500 deg^2 in the Northern Galactic Cap, closing the gap that was present in previous data releases. There are over 1.6 million spectra in total, including 930,000 galaxies, 120,000 quasars, and 460,000 stars. The data release includes improved stellar photometry at low Galactic latitude. The astrometry has all been recalibrated with the second version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC-2), reducing the rms statistical errors at the bright end to 45 milli-arcseconds per coordinate. A systematic error in bright galaxy photometr is less severe than previously reported for the majority of galaxies. Finally, we describe a series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions, including better flat-fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities. (Abridged), Comment: 20 pages, 10 embedded figures. Accepted to ApJS after minor corrections
Published: 2009
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14. Development of database system for data obtained by Hyper Suprime-Cam on Subaru Telescope

Author: Tadafumi Takata, Dustin Lang, Hitomi Yamanoi, Naoki Yasuda, Robert H. Lupton, Jim Bosch, Hisanori Furusawa, Craig P. Loomis, Kendrick M. Smith, Sogo Mineo, Hironao Miyatake, Michitaro Koike, Yoshihiko Yamada, Nobuhiko Katayama, Yuki Okura, Paul A. Price, and Steve Bickerton
Subjects: Physics, Telescope, Database, law, Pipeline (computing), Table (database), Field of view, Object (computer science), Subaru Telescope, computer.software_genre, Row, computer, law.invention
Abstract: Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is the optical and near-infrared wide-field camera equipped on the Subaru Telescope. Its huge field of view (1.5 degree diameter) with 104 CCDs and the large mirror (8.2m) of the telescope will make us to study the Universe more efficiently. The analysis pipeline for HSC data produces processed images, and object catalogs of each CCD and stacked images. For survey in next 5 years, the number of rows in the object catalog table will reach to at least 5 x 10 9 . We show the outline of the database systems of HSC data to store those huge data.
Published: 2014
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15. Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

Author: Youichi Ohyama, Khanh Bui, Amy Wu, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça, Pin Jie Huang, Olivier Le Fèvre, Peter H. Mao, Eric M. Ek, Robert H. Barkhouser, David Le Mignant, Richard C. Y. Chou, Alexandre Bozier, Yin-Chang Chang, Craig P. Loomis, M. Jaquet, Sandrine Pascal, Décio Ferreira, Richard S. Ellis, Paul T. P. Ho, Richard Dekany, Hitoshi Murayama, Roger Smith, Naoyuki Tamura, Chaz Morantz, Olivia R. Dawson, Stephen A. Smee, Larry E. Hovland, Atsushi Shimono, Jason G. Kempenaar, Mark A. Schwochert, Reed Riddle, Timothy M. Heckman, Brice Ménard, Daniel J. Reiley, Charles Fisher, David N. Spergel, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Masahiko Kimura, F. Madec, Mirek Golebiowski, Naruhisa Takato, Hajime Sugai, Thomas Pegot-Ogier, Leandro Henrique dos Santos, Rosie Wyse, Graham J. Murray, Lucas Souza Marrara, Hung-Hsu Ling, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Murdock Hart, Akitoshi Ueda, C.-Y. Wen, Christian Surace, Michael Seiffert, Robert H. Lupton, Laerte Sodré, Yen-Sang Hu, Shu-Fu Hsu, Hrand Aghazarian, S. Vives, Laurence Tresse, Michael A. Carr, Stephen C. Hope, Charles L. Bennett, James E. Gunn, Eamon J. Partos, Clément Vidal, Bruno Castilho, David F. Braun, Hsin-Yo Chen, Jennifer E. Karr, Jesulino Bispo dos Santos, Matthew E. King, Shiang-Yu Wang, Joe D. Orndorff, Didier Ferrand, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Hiroshi Karoji, Robin J. English, Steve Bickerton, Marcio Vital de Arruda, Ronald E. Steinkraus, Chi-Hung Yan, Christopher M. Capocasale, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ramsay, Suzanne K., McLean, Ian S., and Takami, Hideki
Subjects: Physics, Microlens, business.industry, Near-infrared spectroscopy, Cassegrain reflector, FOS: Physical sciences, Field of view, law.invention, Telescope, Lens (optics), Optics, law, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], 14. Life underwater, business, Subaru Telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Spectrograph, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Subaru 8.2-meter telescope. The simultaneous wide wavelength coverage from 0.38 um to 1.26 um, with the resolving power of 3000, strengthens its ability to target three main survey programs: cosmology, Galactic archaeology, and galaxy/AGN evolution. A medium resolution mode with resolving power of 5000 for 0.71 um to 0.89 um also will be available by simply exchanging dispersers. PFS takes the role for the spectroscopic part of the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts project, while Hyper Suprime-Cam works on the imaging part. To transform the telescope plus WFC focal ratio, a 3-mm thick broad-band coated glass-molded microlens is glued to each fiber tip. A higher transmission fiber is selected for the longest part of cable system, while one with a better FRD performance is selected for the fiber-positioner and fiber-slit components, given the more frequent fiber movements and tightly curved structure. Each Fiber positioner consists of two stages of piezo-electric rotary motors. Its engineering model has been produced and tested. Fiber positioning will be performed iteratively by taking an image of artificially back-illuminated fibers with the Metrology camera located in the Cassegrain container. The camera is carefully designed so that fiber position measurements are unaffected by small amounts of high special-frequency inaccuracies in WFC lens surface shapes. Target light carried through the fiber system reaches one of four identical fast-Schmidt spectrograph modules, each with three arms. Prototype VPH gratings have been optically tested. CCD production is complete, with standard fully-depleted CCDs for red arms and more-challenging thinner fully-depleted CCDs with blue-optimized coating for blue arms., 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, Suzanne K. Ramsay, Ian S. McLean, Hideki Takami, Editors, Proc. SPIE 9147 (2014)"
Published: 2014
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16. Web-based data providing system for Hyper Suprime-Cam

Author: N. Katayama, Hisanori Furusawa, Yoshihiko Yamada, Paul A. Price, Michitaro Koike, Hitomi Yamanoi, S. J. Bickerton, Robert H. Lupton, Naoki Yasuda, Jim Bosch, Yuki Okura, S. Mineo, Tadafumi Takata, and Craig P. Loomis
Subjects: World Wide Web, SQL, Computer science, business.industry, Download, Web application, business, Subaru Telescope, computer, Graphical user interface, computer.programming_language
Abstract: We describe a data providing system for Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) of Subaru Telescope. The data providing system provides HSC data including images and catalogs of celestial objects derived from them to individual co-investigators of the Subaru Strategic Survey Program with HSC through a website. Users can select the data that they need by using its graphical user interface or writing a query in SQL and download the selected images or the catalogs.
Published: 2014
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17. Construction and status of the CHARIS high contrast imaging spectrograph

Author: Kyle Mede, Mary Anne Limbach, Michael W. McElwain, Tyler D. Groff, Michael Galvin, Nemanja Jovanovic, Naruhisa Takato, N. J. Kasdin, Markus Janson, Gillian R. Knapp, Timothy D. Brandt, Olivier Guyon, Craig P. Loomis, Frantz Martinache, N. Jarosik, Michael A. Carr, and Masahiko Hayashi
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Exoplanet, law.invention, Optics, Integral field spectrograph, law, Angular resolution, Spectral resolution, business, Adaptive optics, Subaru Telescope, Coronagraph, Spectrograph
Abstract: Princeton University is building the Coronagraphic High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (CHARIS), an integral field spectrograph (IFS) for the Subaru telescope. CHARIS is funded by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and is designed to take high contrast spectra of brown dwarfs and hot Jovian planets in the coronagraphic image provided by the Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) and the AO188 adaptive optics systems. The project is now in the build and test phase at Princeton University. Once laboratory testing has been completed CHARIS will be integrated with SCExAO and AO188 in the winter of 2016. CHARIS has a high-resolution characterization mode in J, H, and K bands. The average spectral resolution in J, H, and K bands are R82, R68, and R82 respectively, the uniformity of which is a direct result of a new high index material, L-BBH2. CHARIS also has a second low-resolution imaging mode that spans J,H, and K bands with an average spectral resolution of R19, a feature unique to this instrument. The field of view in both imaging modes is 2.07x2.07 arcseconds. SCExAO+CHARIS will detect objects five orders of magnitude dimmer than their parent star down to an 80 milliarcsecond inner working angle. The primary challenge with exoplanet imaging is the presence of quasi-static speckles in the coronagraphic image. SCExAO has a wavefront control system to suppress these speckles and CHARIS will address their impact on spectral crosstalk through hardware design, which drives its optical and mechanical design. CHARIS constrains crosstalk to be below 1% for an adjacent source that is a full order of magnitude brighter than the neighboring spectra. Since CHARIS is on the Nasmyth platform, the optical alignment between the lenslet array and prism is highly stable. This improves the stability of the spectra and their orientation on the detector and results in greater stability in the wavelength solution for the data pipeline. This means less uncertainty in the post-processing and less overhead for on-sky calibration procedures required by the data pipeline. Here we present the science case, design, and construction status of CHARIS. The design and lessons learned from testing CHARIS highlights the choices that must be considered to design an IFS for high signal-to-noise spectra in a coronagraphic image. The design considerations and lessons learned are directly applicable to future exoplanet instrumentation for extremely large telescopes and space observatories capable of detecting rocky planets in the habitable zone.
Published: 2014
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18. ERIS: the exoplanet high-resolution image simulator for CHARIS

Author: Mary Anne Limbach, N. J. Kasdin, Craig P. Loomis, Kyle Mede, Tyler D. Groff, Masahiko Hayashi, Naruhisa Takato, and Timothy D. Brandt
Subjects: Physics, Wavefront, biology, business.industry, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, biology.organism_classification, Exoplanet, law.invention, Telescope, Integral field spectrograph, Software, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Subaru Telescope, Adaptive optics, business, Simulation, Eris
Abstract: ERIS is an image simulator for CHARIS, the high-contrast exoplanet integral field spectrograph (IFS) being built at Princeton University for the Subaru telescope. We present here the software design and implementation of the ERIS code. ERIS simulates CHARIS FITS images and data cubes that are used for developing the data reduction pipeline and verifying the expected CHARIS performance. Components of the software include detailed models of the light source (such as a star or exoplanet), atmosphere, telescope, adaptive optics systems (AO188 and SCExAO), CHARIS IFS and the Hawaii2-RG infrared detector. Code includes novel details such as the phase errors at the lenslet array, optical wavefront error maps and pinholes for reducing crosstalk, just to list a few. The details of the code as well as several simulated images are presented in this paper. This IFS simulator is critical for the CHARIS data analysis pipeline development, minimizing troubleshooting in the lab and on-sky and the characterization of crosstalk.
Published: 2014
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19. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Eduardo Balbinot, Rory Barnes, Julian Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Alessandra Beifiori, Andreas A. Berlind, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Dmitry Bizyaev, Cullen H. Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, John J. Bochanski, Adam S. Bolton, Arnaud Borde, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, J. Brinkmann, Peter J. Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, N. G. Busca, William Carithers, Aurelio R. Carnero, Michael A. Carr, Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu, Yanmei Chen, Cristina Chiappini, Johan Comparat, Natalia Connolly, Justin R. Crepp, Stefano Cristiani, Rupert A. C. Croft, Antonio J. Cuesta, Luiz N. da Costa, James R. A. Davenport, Kyle S. Dawson, Roland de Putter, Nathan De Lee, Timothée Delubac, Saurav Dhital, Anne Ealet, Garrett L. Ebelke, Edward M. Edmondson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, S. Escoffier, Massimiliano Esposito, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Bruno Femenía Castellá, Emma Fernández Alvar, Leticia D. Ferreira, N. Filiz Ak, Hayley Finley, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Peter M. Frinchaboy, D. A. García-Hernández, A. E. García Pérez, Jian Ge, R. Génova-Santos, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, Jonay I. González Hernández, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Hong Guo, Daryl Haggard, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, David W. Harris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Frederick R. Hearty, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Klaus Honscheid, J. Huehnerhoff, Inese I. Ivans, Željko Ivezić, Heather R. Jacobson, Linhua Jiang, Jonas Johansson, Jennifer A. Johnson, Guinevere Kauffmann, David Kirkby, Jessica A. Kirkpatrick, Mark A. Klaene, Gillian R. Knapp, Jean-Paul Kneib, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Alexie Leauthaud, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Lee, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Sara Lucatello, Britt Lundgren, Robert H. Lupton, Bo Ma, Zhibo Ma, Nicholas MacDonald, Claude E. Mack, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Martin Makler, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, A. Manchado, Rachel Mandelbaum, Marc Manera, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Margala, Sarah L. Martell, Cameron K. McBride, Ian D. McGreer, Richard G. McMahon, Brice Ménard, Sz. Meszaros, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Francesco Montesano, Heather L. Morrison, Demitri Muna, Jeffrey A. Munn, Hitoshi Murayama, Adam D. Myers, A. F. Neto, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Sebastián E. Nuza, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel J. Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Prachi Parihar, Isabelle Pâris, Petchara Pattarakijwanich, Joshua Pepper, Will J. Percival, Ismael Pérez-Fournon, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Patrick Petitjean, Janine Pforr, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc H. Pinsonneault, G. F. Porto de Mello, Francisco Prada, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, M. Jordan Raddick, Rafael Rebolo, James Rich, Gordon T. Richards, Annie C. Robin, Helio J. Rocha-Pinto, Constance M. Rockosi, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, J. A. Rubiño-Martin, Lado Samushia, J. Sanchez Almeida, Ariel G. Sánchez, Basílio Santiago, Conor Sayres, David J. Schlegel, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel D. Schwope, C. G. Scóccola, Uros Seljak, Erin Sheldon, Yue Shen, Yiping Shu, Jennifer Simmerer, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin A. Skibba, M. F. Skrutskie, A. Slosar, Flavia Sobreira, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Keivan G. Stassun, Oliver Steele, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, Molly E. C. Swanson, Tomer Tal, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Christy A. Tremonti, M. Vargas Magaña, Licia Verde, Matteo Viel, Shailendra K. Vikas, Nicole P. Vogt, David A. Wake, Ji Wang, Benjamin A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin J. Weiner, Andrew A. West, Martin White, John C. Wilson, John P. Wisniewski, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Brian Yanny, Christophe Yèche, Donald G. York, O. Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Idit Zehavi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Guangtun Zhu, Joel C. Zinn, APC - Cosmologie, Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), BOSS, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Elon University [NC, USA], Department of Astronomy [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], The University of Notre Dame [Sydney], Apache point observatory, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Universitat de Barcelona, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Atles, Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Astronomical spectroscopy, Via láctea, Observatory, Observacions astronòmiques, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Mapeamentos astronômicos, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Atlases, Astrometry, Cosmology, atlases, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astronomical observations, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, catalogs, surveys, Formacao de galaxias, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Spectrograph, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cosmologia, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Espectroscòpia, Galaxy, Spectrum analysis, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Catalogs, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9
Published: 2012
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20. Spectral Classification and Redshift Measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: James E. Gunn, Stephen Bailey, Kyle S. Dawson, Adam D. Myers, Joel R. Brownstein, Benjamin A. Weaver, Claudia Maraston, Robert H. Lupton, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Constance M. Rockosi, Michael A. Strauss, Gillian R. Knapp, Christy Tremonti, Daniel Thomas, Nicholas P. Ross, David J. Schlegel, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Patrick Petitjean, Adam S. Bolton, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Demitri Muna, Yiping Shu, Craig P. Loomis, David A. Wake, Éric Aubourg, Scott Burles, Will J. Percival, Matthew D. Olmstead, Yanmei Chen, Isabelle Paris, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SDSS-III, APC - Cosmologie, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Stellar classification, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], surveys, 0103 physical sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, methods: data analysis, Galaxy, Redshift, Baryon, Stars, Boss, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], techniques: spectroscopic, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: (abridged) We describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, and parameter measurement pipeline in use for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) as of Data Release 9, encompassing 831,000 moderate-resolution optical spectra. We give a review of the algorithms employed, and describe the changes to the pipeline that have been implemented for BOSS relative to previous SDSS-I/II versions, including new sets of stellar, galaxy, and quasar redshift templates. For the color-selected CMASS sample of massive galaxies at redshift 0.4, Comment: 20 pages, multiple figures. Minor changes relative to version 1. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2012
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21. Hyper Suprime-Cam

Author: Yukiko Kamata, Hisanori Suzuki, Yoko Tanaka, Paul A. Price, Makoto Endo, Satoshi Miyazaki, Yoshi Doi, Hiroshi Karoji, Yoshiyuki Obuchi, Masaharu Muramatsu, Naoki Yasuda, Yuki Fujimori, Yuki Okura, Takashi Hamana, Yutaka Ezaki, Masamune Oguri, Kazuhito Namikawa, Steve Bickerton, Daigo Tomono, Craig P. Loomis, Yousuke Utsumi, Hisanori Furusawa, N. Katayama, Hideo Yokota, Sogo Mineo, Tomio Kurakami, Hatsue Uekiyo, Tomoki Saito, Fumihiro Uraguchi, Yutaka Komiyama, Kyoji Nariai, Kunio Takeshi, Jun Nishizawa, Satoshi Kawanomoto, Hitomi Yamanoi, Yoshihiko Yamada, Tomohisa Uchida, Tadafumi Takata, Robert H. Lupton, Noboru Itoh, Yoshinori Miwa, Shiang-Yu Wang, Hiro Aihara, Tsuyoshi Terai, Manobu M. Tanaka, Hidehiko Nakaya, Michitaro Koike, James E. Gunn, Koei Yamamoto, Ryuichi Ebinuma, Toru Matsuda, Tomonori Usuda, Yuki Ishizuka, Hironao Miyatake, Yasuhito Miyazaki, Tomoki Morokuma, and Hsin-Yo Chen
Subjects: Optical axis, Physics, Primary mirror, Cardinal point, Optics, Pixel, business.industry, Field of view, Astrophysics, First light, business, Subaru Telescope, Weak gravitational lensing
Abstract: Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is an 870 Mega pixel prime focus camera for the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. The wide field corrector delivers sharp image of 0.25 arc-sec FWHM in r-band over the entire 1.5 degree (in diameter) field of view. The collimation of the camera with respect to the optical axis of the primary mirror is realized by hexapod actuators whose mechanical accuracy is few microns. As a result, we expect to have seeing limited image most of the time. Expected median seeing is 0.67 arc-sec FWHM in i-band. The sensor is a p-ch fully depleted CCD of 200 micron thickness (2048 x 4096 15 μm square pixel) and we employ 116 of them to pave the 50 cm focal plane. Minimum interval between exposures is roughly 30 seconds including reading out arrays, transferring data to the control computer and saving them to the hard drive. HSC uniquely features the combination of large primary mirror, wide field of view, sharp image and high sensitivity especially in red. This enables accurate shape measurement of faint galaxies which is critical for planned weak lensing survey to probe the nature of dark energy. The system is being assembled now and will see the first light in August 2012.
Published: 2012
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22. Performance of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) high-resolution near-infrared multi-object fiber spectrograph

Author: Mike Skrutskie, Diana Holder, Adam Burton, Matthew Shetrone, A. E. García Pérez, Bo Zhao, Jim Arns, Russell Owen, Mark A. Klaene, Bruce Gillespie, Demitri Muna, Frances Cope, Paul Maseman, F. Leger, Verne V. Smith, Basil Blank, Craig P. Loomis, R. Stoll, Tracy Naugle, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sophia Brunner, B. Pfaffenberger, Nicholas MacDonald, Robert H. Barkhouser, S. D. Chojnowski, J. Barr, Steven R. Majewski, Viktor Malanushenko, Wendell P. Jordan, George H. Rieke, Stephane Beland, T. Stolberg, Carlos Allende-Prieto, Matthew J. Nelson, M. Vernieri, Chuck Henderson, Howard Brewington, David H. Weinberg, Kaike Pan, Albert Harding, Marcia J. Rieke, Katia Cunha, Peter M. Frinchaboy, David J. Schlegel, Jon A. Holtzman, Thomas P. O'Brien, Larry N. Carey, S. A. Snedden, J. A. Johnson, John C. Wilson, Brett H. Andrews, Dan Long, Michael R. Hayden, E. Walker, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Samuel Halverson, Sz. Meszaros, D. V. Bizyaev, James E. Gunn, David L. Nidever, Jeffrey D. Crane, Garrett Ebelke, Frederick R. Hearty, Charles R. Lam, A. Simmons, Greg Fitzgerald, Gail Zasowski, C. Harrison, Benjamin A. Weaver, Daniel Oravetz, Erick T. Young, J. Brinkmann, Fritz Stauffer, M. R. Blanton, T. Horne, Michael A. Carr, Stephen C. Hope, Stephen A. Smee, and Elena Malanushenko
Subjects: Cryostat, Physics, business.industry, Milky Way, media_common.quotation_subject, Detector, Near-infrared spectroscopy, Astronomy, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, Observatory, Sky, business, Spectrograph, media_common
Abstract: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) uses a dedicated 300-fiber, narrow-band near-infrared (1.51-1.7 μm), high resolution (R~22,500) spectrograph to survey approximately 100,000 giant stars across the Milky Way. This three-year survey, in operation since late-summer 2011 as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III), will revolutionize our understanding of the kinematical and chemical enrichment histories of all Galactic stellar populations. We present the performance of the instrument from its first year in operation. The instrument is housed in a separate building adjacent to the 2.5-m SDSS telescope and fed light via approximately 45-meter fiber runs from the telescope. The instrument design includes numerous innovations including a gang connector that allows simultaneous connection of all fibers with a single plug to a telescope cartridge that positions the fibers on the sky, numerous places in the fiber train in which focal ratio degradation had to be minimized, a large mosaic-VPH (290 mm x 475 mm elliptically-shaped recorded area), an f/1.4 six-element refractive camera featuring silicon and fused silica elements with diameters as large as 393 mm, three near-infrared detectors mounted in a 1 x 3 mosaic with sub-pixel translation capability, and all of these components housed within a custom, LN2-cooled, stainless steel vacuum cryostat with dimensions 1.4-m x 2.3-m x 1.3-m.
Published: 2012
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23. Erratum: 'The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III' (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)

Author: Thirupathi Sivarani, Sara Lucatello, Gillian R. Knapp, Viktor Malanushenko, Timothy C. Beers, Brian Yanny, Isabelle Pâris, Natalia Connolly, M. Jordanraddick, Garrettl Ebelke, Andreas A. Berlind, Andreu Font-Ribera, Nicholasp Ross, Brice Ménard, Patrick Petitjean, Erin Sheldon, Michaelr Blanton, Constance M. Rockosi, Marcioa G. Maia, Conor Sayres, Emmanuel Rollinde, Eduardo Balbinot, Nicolás G. Busca, Peterj Brown, Jeffrey A. Munn, Dan Long, Zhibo Ma, Naoki Yasuda, Rupert A. C. Croft, David W. Hogg, Nicholas MacDonald, Adrianm Price-Whelan, Deokkeun An, Arielg Sánchez, Joel R. Brownstein, Steven J. Bickerton, Adam S. Bolton, Licia Verde, Cathy Jordan, Céline Reylé, Yanmei Chen, Michael L. Evans, David J. Schlegel, Jon A. Holtzman, Jean-Paul Kneib, Cameron K. McBride, Jonay I. González Hernández, Frederick R. Hearty, Matthias Steinmetz, Gerry Gilmore, Peterm Frinchaboy, John J. Bochanski, Luiz N. da Costa, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Will J. Percival, Jean Marc Le Goff, Kaike Pan, Demitri Muna, Kyle S. Dawson, Benjamina Weaver, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Fergal Mullally, Xiaohui Fan, Lars Koesterke, J. Richard Gott, Heather L. Morrison, Simon D. M. White, Shirley Ho, David W. Harris, Hiroaki Aihara, Daniel Thomas, Janine Pforr, Eva K. Grebel, K. Honscheid, Scott F. Anderson, Benjaminm Tofflemire, Claudia Maraston, M. Esposito, James E. Gunn, Karen L. Masters, Jian Ge, Christy Tremonti, Donaldp Schneider, Christophe Pichon, Robert H. Lupton, Carlos Allende Prieto, Jennifer A. Johnson, Sarah J. Schmidt, Daniel Margala, Dustin Lang, James R. A. Davenport, Masayuki Tanaka, Angelo Fausti Neto, Naohisa Inada, Andrew Gould, Hitoshi Murayama, Martin Makler, Ji Wang, Cristina Chiappini, Eyal A. Kazin, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jan Vandenberg, P. M. McGehee, David H. Weinberg, Alexander S. Szalay, Yen-Ting Lin, Natalie A. Roe, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Matthewd Olmstead, Jo Bovy, Rita Tojeiro, Christophe Yèche, Daniel Oravetz, David A. Wake, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Christopher S. Kochanek, Gordont Richards, Jennifer Simmerer, Stefanie Phleps, Linhua Jiang, Beatriz H. F. Ramos, Martin White, Rachel Mandelbaum, Nicole P. Vogt, W. N. Brandt, Edward M. Edmondson, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Matthewm Pieri, James Rich, Hans-Walter Rix, Stephanie Escoffier, Richard G. Kron, Annie C. Robin, Craig P. Loomis, Suvrath Mahadevan, Robert C. Nichol, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Idit Zehavi, Jean Christophe Hamilton, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Saurav Dhital, Inese I. Ivans, Jennifer Sobeck, Britt Lundgren, Marina Cortês, Bruno Femenía Castellá, Adam D. Myers, Robert W. O'Connell, Jeremyl Tinker, H. Campbell, Iand McGreer, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Robert Pfaffenberger, Parul Pandey, Mark A. Klaene, Bruce Gillespie, Bruno M. Rossetto, Johan Comparat, Antonioj Cuesta, Tracy Naugle, D. Kirkby, Hubert Lampeitl, Éric Aubourg, H. J. Rocha-Pinto, Michael A. Carr, J. Brinkmann, Young Sun Lee, Ashleyj Ross, Anne Ealet, Michael A. Strauss, Yiping Shu, Stephanie A. Snedden, Wendellp Jordan, Francisco Prada, Dmitry Bizyaev, Elena Malanushenko, M. Vargas Magaña, Juna A. Kollmeier, Paul Harding, Audrey Simmons, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), SDSS-III, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: Systematic error, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrometry, 01 natural sciences, Declination, Imaging data, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Celestial pole, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Data release, Quality information, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: Section 3.5 of Aihara et al. (2011) described various sources of systematic error in the astrometry of the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition to these sources of error, there is an additional and more serious error, which introduces a large systematic shift in the astrometry over a large area around the north celestial pole. The region has irregular boundaries but in places extends as far south as declination δ ≈ 41◦. The sense of the shift is that the positions of all sources in the affected area are offset by roughly 250 mas in a northwest direction. We have updated the SDSS online documentation to reflect these errors, and to provide detailed quality information for each SDSS field.
Published: 2011
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24. Development of an analysis framework for HSC and Belle II

Author: Robert H. Lupton, Satoshi Miyazaki, Hisanori Furusawa, Hiroaki Aihara, Sogo Mineo, Yuki Okura, R. Itoh, Craig P. Loomis, Nobuhiko Katayama, and Naoki Yasuda
Subjects: Computer science, Programming language, Computer-aided manufacturing, Parallel algorithm, Operating system, Python (programming language), computer.software_genre, computer, computer.programming_language
Abstract: We report an analysis framework developed for the Hyper Suprime-Cam. The framework is featured by distributed parallel execution and a Python interface. With the Python interface, it collaborates with the LSST application framework. Thus we have developed a test pipeline with both the frameworks, and tested its parallelization performance.
Published: 2010
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25. The SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. IV. Validation with an Extended Sample of Galactic Globular and Open Clusters

Author: Jason P. Smolinski, Craig P. Loomis, Steven J. Bickerton, Deokkeun An, Brian Yanny, Timothy C. Beers, Constance M. Rockosi, Thirupathi Sivarani, Jennifer A. Johnson, and Young Sun Lee
Subjects: Physics, Metallicity, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Segue, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Radial velocity, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Globular cluster, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Cluster (physics), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Open cluster
Abstract: Spectroscopic and photometric data for likely member stars of five Galactic globular clusters (M3, M53, M71, M92, and NGC 5053) and three open clusters (M35, NGC 2158, and NGC 6791) are processed by the current version of the SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline (SSPP), in order to determine estimates of metallicities and radial velocities for the clusters. These results are then compared to values from the literature. We find that the mean metallicity () and mean radial velocity () estimates for each cluster are almost all within 2{\sigma} of the adopted literature values; most are within 1{\sigma}. We also demonstrate that the new version of the SSPP achieves small, but noteworthy, improvements in estimates at the extrema of the cluster metallicity range, as compared to a previous version of the pipeline software. These results provide additional confidence in the application of the SSPP for studies of the abundances and kinematics of stellar populations in the Galaxy., Comment: 98 pages, 31 figures; accepted for publication in AJ
Published: 2010
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26. The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Author: Jennifer K. Adelman‐McCarthy, Marcel A. Agüeros, Sahar S. Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Kurt S.J. Anderson, Scott F. Anderson, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, C. A. L. Bailer‐Jones, Ivan K. Baldry, J. C. Barentine, Bruce A. Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, Andreas A. Berlind, Mariangela Bernardi, Michael R. Blanton, John J. Bochanski, William N. Boroski, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Robert J. Brunner, Tamás Budavári, Samuel Carliles, Michael A. Carr, Francisco J. Castander, David Cinabro, R. J. Cool, Kevin R. Covey, István Csabai, Carlos E. Cunha, James R. A. Davenport, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Scott D. Friedman, Joshua A. Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Boris T. Gänsicke, Evalyn Gates, Bruce Gillespie, Karl Glazebrook, Jim Gray, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Vijay K. Gurbani, Patrick B. Hall, Paul Harding, Michael Harvanek, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jeffrey Hayes, Timothy M. Heckman, John S. Hendry, Robert B. Hindsley, Christopher M. Hirata, Craig J. Hogan, David W. Hogg, Joseph B. Hyde, Shin‐ichi Ichikawa, Željko Ivezić, Sebastian Jester, Jennifer A. Johnson, Anders M. Jorgensen, Mario Jurić, Stephen M. Kent, R. Kessler, S. J. Kleinman, G. R. Knapp, Richard G. Kron, Jurek Krzesinski, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Donald Q. Lamb, Hubert Lampeitl, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Marcos Lima, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Jon Loveday, Robert H. Lupton, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Bruce Margon, John P. Marriner, David Martínez‐Delgado, Takahiko Matsubara, Peregrine M. McGehee, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Heather L. Morrison, Jeffrey A. Munn, Reiko Nakajima, Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Heidi Jo Newberg, Robert C. Nichol, Tom Nicinski, Maria Nieto‐Santisteban, Atsuko Nitta, Sadanori Okamura, Russell Owen, Hiroaki Oyaizu, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, Changbom Park, John Peoples, Jr., Jeffrey R. Pier, Adrian C. Pope, Norbert Purger, M. Jordan Raddick, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Michael W. Richmond, Adam G. Riess, Hans‐Walter Rix, Constance M. Rockosi, Masao Sako, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel D. Schwope, Uroš Seljak, Branimir Sesar, Erin Sheldon, Kazu Shimasaku, Thirupathi Sivarani, J. Allyn Smith, Stephanie A. Snedden, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Mark SubbaRao, Yasushi Suto, Alexander S. Szalay, István Szapudi, Paula Szkody, Max Tegmark, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Christy A. Tremonti, Douglas L. Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Jan Vandenberg, S. Vidrih, Michael S. Vogeley, Wolfgang Voges, Nicole P. Vogt, Yogesh Wadadekar, David H. Weinberg, Andrew A. West, Simon D. M. White, Brian C. Wilhite, Brian Yanny, D. R. Yocum, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi, and Daniel B. Zucker
Subjects: Physics, Point spread function, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Spectral line, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Calibration, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract: With the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the imaging of the Northern Galactic Cap is now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg^2, and 1.27 million spectra of stars, galaxies, quasars and blank sky (for sky subtraction) selected over 7425 deg^2. This release includes much more extensive stellar spectroscopy than previously, and also includes detailed estimates of stellar temperatures, gravities, and metallicities. The results of improved photometric calibration are now available, with uncertainties of roughly 1% in g, r, i, and z, and 2% in u, substantially better than the uncertainties in previous data releases. The spectra in this data release have improved wavelength and flux calibration, especially in the extreme blue and extreme red, leading to the qualitatively better determination of stellar types and radial velocities. The spectrophotometric fluxes are now tied to point spread function magnitudes of stars rather than fiber magnitudes, giving a 0.35 mag change in the spectrophotometric flux scale. Systematic errors in the velocity dispersions of galaxies have been fixed, and the results of two independent codes for determining spectral classifications and redshifts are made available. (Abridged), 21 pages with 8 color figures. ApJS, in press. Minor modifications from previous version
Published: 2008

27. ParaGraph: Graph editor support for parallel programming environments

Author: Craig P. Loomis, Janice E. Cuny, and Duane A. Bailey
Subjects: Theoretical computer science, Computer science, Programming language, Program specification, media_common.quotation_subject, Computation, Graph editor, Parallel computing, computer.software_genre, Theoretical Computer Science, Debugging, Theory of computation, Paragraph, User interface, computer, Massively parallel, Software, Information Systems, media_common
Abstract: WE REPORT HERE ON A GRAPH EDITOR, CALLED PARAGRAPH, THAT SUPPORTS THE PROGRAMMING OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS. IT PROVIDES A FLEXIBLE MECHANISM FOR THE CONCISE SPECIFICATION OF FAMILIES OF ANNOTATED GRAPHS, ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS OF USER-ANNOTATION AND SCALE INDEPENDENT GRAPH MANIPULATION. IT HAS BEEN INTEGRATED INTO OUR PROGRAMMING ENVIORNMENT, WHERE IT SERVES AS THE BASIS FOR TOOLS SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION ABSTRAC- TIONS IN PROGRAM SPECIFICATION AND DEBUGGING. ITS EXTENSION TO A NUMBER OF OTHER PARALLEL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS WOULD BE STRAIGHTFORWARD.
Published: 1990
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28. THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT

Author: Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Fabienne A. Bastien, Julian E. Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Alessandra Beifiori, Chad F. Bender, Andreas A. Berlind, Florian Beutler, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Cullen H. Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, John J. Bochanski, Adam S. Bolton, Arnaud Borde, Jo Bovy, Alaina Shelden Bradley, W. N. Brandt, Dorothée Brauer, J. Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Nicolás G. Busca, William Carithers, Joleen K. Carlberg, Aurelio R. Carnero, Michael A. Carr, Cristina Chiappini, S. Drew Chojnowski, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Johan Comparat, Justin R. Crepp, Stefano Cristiani, Rupert A. C. Croft, Antonio J. Cuesta, Katia Cunha, Luiz N. da Costa, Kyle S. Dawson, Nathan De Lee, Janice D. R. Dean, Timothée Delubac, Rohit Deshpande, Saurav Dhital, Anne Ealet, Garrett L. Ebelke, Edward M. Edmondson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Courtney R. Epstein, Stephanie Escoffier, Massimiliano Esposito, Michael L. Evans, D. Fabbian, Xiaohui Fan, Ginevra Favole, Bruno Femenía Castellá, Emma Fernández Alvar, Diane Feuillet, Nurten Filiz Ak, Hayley Finley, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Peter M. Frinchaboy, J. G. Galbraith-Frew, D. A. García-Hernández, Ana E. García Pérez, Jian Ge, R. Génova-Santos, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, Jonay I. González Hernández, J. Richard Gott, James E. Gunn, Hong Guo, Samuel Halverson, Paul Harding, David W. Harris, Sten Hasselquist, Suzanne L. Hawley, Michael Hayden, Frederick R. Hearty, Artemio Herrero Davó, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Klaus Honscheid, Joseph Huehnerhoff, Inese I. Ivans, Kelly M. Jackson, Peng Jiang, Jennifer A. Johnson, K. Kinemuchi, David Kirkby, Mark A. Klaene, Jean-Paul Kneib, Lars Koesterke, Ting-Wen Lan, Dustin Lang, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Alexie Leauthaud, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Lee, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Sara Lucatello, Robert H. Lupton, Bo Ma, Claude E. Mack, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, A. Manchado, Marc Manera, Claudia Maraston, Daniel Margala, Sarah L. Martell, Karen L. Masters, Cameron K. McBride, Ian D. McGreer, Richard G. McMahon, Brice Ménard, Sz. Mészáros, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Hironao Miyatake, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Francesco Montesano, Surhud More, Heather L. Morrison, Demitri Muna, Jeffrey A. Munn, Adam D. Myers, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Sebastián E. Nuza, Julia E. O'Connell, Robert W. O'Connell, Ross O'Connell, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel J. Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Prachi Parihar, Isabelle Pâris, Joshua Pepper, Will J. Percival, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Hélio Dotto Perottoni, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, M. H. Pinsonneault, Francisco Prada, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, M. Jordan Raddick, Mubdi Rahman, Rafael Rebolo, Beth A. Reid, Jonathan C. Richards, Rogério Riffel, Annie C. Robin, H. J. Rocha-Pinto, Constance M. Rockosi, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Arpita Roy, J. A. Rubiño-Martin, Cristiano G. Sabiu, Ariel G. Sánchez, Basílio Santiago, Conor Sayres, Ricardo P. Schiavon, David J. Schlegel, Katharine J. Schlesinger, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Kris Sellgren, Hee-Jong Seo, Yue Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Yiping Shu, Audrey E. Simmons, M. F. Skrutskie, Anže Slosar, Verne V. Smith, Stephanie A. Snedden, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Flavia Sobreira, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, Molly E. C. Swanson, Ryan C. Terrien, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Nicholas W. Troup, Jan Vandenberg, Mariana Vargas Magaña, Matteo Viel, Nicole P. Vogt, David A. Wake, Benjamin A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin J. Weiner, Martin White, Simon D. M. White, John C. Wilson, John P. Wisniewski, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Christophe Yèche, Donald G. York, O. Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Idit Zehavi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Guangtun Zhu, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), BOSS, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat de Barcelona, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Red giant, Espectros astronômicos, Astrophysics, Surveys, Astronomical spectroscopy, Observatory, Observacions astronòmiques, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, QC, QB, media_common, Mapeamentos astronômicos, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Atlases, Cosmology, atlases, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astronomical observations, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], media_common.quotation_subject, Milky Way, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, catalogs, surveys, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Galaxy formation and evolution, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cosmologia, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Espectroscòpia, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Spectrum analysis, Galaxy, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], QC Physics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Catalogos astronomicos, Catalogs
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees., 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names
Published: 2014
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1. Subaru Night-Sky Spectrograph (SuNSS): fiber cable construction

2. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase

3. Prime focus spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: the prime focus instrument

4. Prime focus spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: 2D modeling of the point spread function

5. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: a next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming

6. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): the metrology camera system

7. Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): the prime focus instrument

8. Software development of fiber positioning sequencer for prime focus spectrograph of Subaru telescope

9. Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality

10. First light of the CHARIS high-contrast integral-field spectrograph

11. The survey operation software system development for Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope

12. Detecting active comets in the SDSS

13. THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

14. Development of database system for data obtained by Hyper Suprime-Cam on Subaru Telescope

15. Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

16. Web-based data providing system for Hyper Suprime-Cam

17. Construction and status of the CHARIS high contrast imaging spectrograph

18. ERIS: the exoplanet high-resolution image simulator for CHARIS

19. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

20. Spectral Classification and Redshift Measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

21. Hyper Suprime-Cam

22. Performance of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) high-resolution near-infrared multi-object fiber spectrograph

23. Erratum: 'The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III' (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)

24. Development of an analysis framework for HSC and Belle II

25. The SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. IV. Validation with an Extended Sample of Galactic Globular and Open Clusters

26. The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

27. ParaGraph: Graph editor support for parallel programming environments

28. THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT

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