Accession Number:

ADA430845

Title:

The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL OBSERVATORY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Abazajian, Kevork
• Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
• Agueros, Marcel A.
• Allam, Sahar S.
• Anderson, Kurt S.

Report Date:

2005-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

6.0

Abstract:

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

Descriptors:

• *SPECTROSCOPY
• *SURVEYS
• *IMAGES
• *CLASSIFICATION
• *STARS
• *PHOTOMETRY
• *WIDE FIELD CAMERAS
• IMAGE PROCESSING
• REPRINTS
• GRATINGS(SPECTRA)
• MAPPING
• SKY
• CATALOGS
• TELESCOPES
• GALAXIES
• ASTRONOMICAL CAMERAS
• QUASARS
• DIGITAL CAMERAS

Subject Categories:

• Astronomy
• Astrophysics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE