Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release

Finkbeiner, Douglas P.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Schlegel, David J.; Carr, Michael A.; Gunn, James E.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Sekiguchi, Maki; Lupton, Robert H.; Knapp, G. R.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Blanton, Michael R.; Hogg, David W.; Adelman McCarthy, Jennifer K.; Annis, James; Hayes, Jeffrey; Kinney, Ellynne; Long, Daniel C.; Seljak, Uros; Strauss, Michael A.; Yanny, Brian; Agüeros, Marcel Andre; Allam, Sahar S.; Anderson, Scott F.; Bahcall, Neta A.; Baldry, Ivan K.; Bernardi, Mariangela; Boroski, William N.; Briggs, John W.; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert J.; Budavári, Tamás; Castander, Francisco J.; Covey, Kevin R.; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Dong, Feng; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Fan, Xiaohui; Szalay, Alexander S.; Friedman, Scott D.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gillespie, Bruce; Grebel, Eva K.; Gurbani, Vijay K.; de Haas, Ernst; Harris, Frederick H.; Hendry, John S.; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Jester, Sebastian; Johnston, David E.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Juric, Mario; Kent, Stephen M.; Kniazev, Alexei Y.-U.; Krzesinski, Jurek; Leger, R. French; Lin, Huan; Loveday, Jon; Mannery, Ed; Martínez-Delgado, David; McGehee, Peregrine M.; Meiksin, Avery; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Newman, Peter R.; Nitta, Atsuko; Pauls, George; Quinn, Thomas R.; Rafikov, R. R.; Richards, Gordon T.; Richmond, Michael W.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schroeder, Joshua; Neilsen, Jr. Eric H.; Shimasaku, Kazu; Siegmund, Walter A.; Smith, J. Allyn; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stebbins, Albert; Szalay, Alexander A.; Szokoly, Gyula P.; Tegmark, Max; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uomoto, Alan; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Weinberg, David H.; West, Andrew A.; Yasuda, Naoki; Yocum, D. R.; York, Donald G.; French Leger, R.; Zehavi, Idit; Allyn Smith, J.

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American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Journal, 5(128), p. 2577-2592, 2004

DOI: 10.1086/425050

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release

Journal article published in 2004 by Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Nikhil Padmanabhan, David J. Schlegel, Michael A. Carr, James E. Gunn, Constance M. Rockosi, Maki Sekiguchi, Robert H. Lupton, G. R. Knapp, Zeljko Ivezic, Michael R. Blanton, David W. Hogg

, Jennifer K. Adelman McCarthy, James Annis, Jeffrey Hayes and other authors.

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional data were obtained during commissioning and subsequent testing of the SDSS observing system, and they provide unique wide-area imaging data in regions of high obscuration and star formation, including numerous young stellar objects, Herbig-Haro objects and young star clusters. Because these data are outside the Survey regions in the Galactic caps, they are not part of the standard SDSS data releases. This paper presents imaging data for 832 square degrees of sky (including repeats), in the star-forming regions of Orion, Taurus, and Cygnus. About 470 square degrees are now released to the public, with the remainder to follow at the time of SDSS Data Release 4. The public data in Orion include the star-forming region NGC 2068/NGC 2071/HH24 and a large part of Barnard's loop. ; Comment: 31 pages, 9 figures (3 missing to save space), accepted by AJ, in press, see http://photo.astro.princeton.edu/oriondatarelease for data and paper with all figures

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