Abstract
Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS Data Release 8 (DR8), which was made public in 2011 January and includes SDSS-I and SDSS-II images and spectra reprocessed with the latest pipelines and calibrations produced for the SDSS-III investigations. This paper presents an overview of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lyα forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature of large-scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z < 0.7 and at z ≈ 2.5. SEGUE-2, an already completed SDSS-III survey that is the continuation of the SDSS-II Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), measured medium-resolution (R = λ/Δλ 1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, will obtain high-resolution (R 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ≥ 100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51 μm < λ < 1.70 μm) spectra of 105 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for 15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. The Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS) will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m s -1, 24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. As of 2011 January, SDSS-III has obtained spectra of more than 240,000 galaxies, 29,000 z ≥ 2.2 quasars, and 140,000 stars, including 74,000 velocity measurements of 2580 stars for MARVELS.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 72 |
| Journal | Astronomical Journal |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2011 |
Keywords
- Galaxy: evolution
- cosmology: observations
- planets and satellites: detection
- surveys Online-only material: color figure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
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SDSS-III : Massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant Universe, the MILKY WAY, and extra-solar planetary systems. / Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Weinberg, David H.; Agol, Eric; Aihara, Hiroaki; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, Scott F.; Arns, James A.; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Balbinot, Eduardo; Barkhouser, Robert; Beers, Timothy C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, Steven J.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael R.; Bochanski, John J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Bosman, Casey T.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Breslauer, Ben; Brewington, Howard J.; Brinkmann, J.; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burger, Dan; Busca, Nicolas G.; Campbell, Heather; Cargile, Phillip A.; Carithers, William C.; Carlberg, Joleen K.; Carr, Michael A.; Chang, Liang; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, Cristina; Comparat, Johan; Connolly, Natalia; Cortes, Marina; Croft, Rupert A.C.; Cunha, Katia; Da Costa, Luiz N.; Davenport, James R.A.; Dawson, Kyle; De Lee, Nathan; Porto De Mello, Gustavo F.; De Simoni, Fernando; Dean, Janice; Dhital, Saurav; Ealet, Anne; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Edmondson, Edward M.; Eiting, Jacob M.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Esposito, Massimiliano; Evans, Michael L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Femenía Castell, Bruno; Dutra Ferreira, Leticia; Fitzgerald, Greg; Fleming, Scott W.; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Ford, Eric B.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; García Pérez, Ana Elia; Gaudi, B. Scott; Ge, Jian; Ghezzi, Luan; Gillespie, Bruce A.; Gilmore, G.; Girardi, Léo; Gott, J. Richard; Gould, Andrew; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; Hamilton, Jean Christophe; Harding, Paul; Harris, David W.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hearty, Frederick R.; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Gonzlez Hernndez, Jonay I.; Ho, Shirley; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Honscheid, Klaus; Inada, Naohisa; Ivans, Inese I.; Jiang, Linhua; Jiang, Peng; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jordan, Cathy; Jordan, Wendell P.; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kazin, Eyal; Kirkby, David; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapp, G. R.; Kneib, Jean Paul; Kochanek, C. S.; Koesterke, Lars; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kron, Richard G.; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lang, Dustin; Lawler, James E.; Le Goff, Jean Marc; Lee, Brian L.; Lee, Young Sun; Leisenring, Jarron M.; Lin, Yen Ting; Liu, Jian; Long, Daniel C.; Loomis, Craig P.; Lucatello, Sara; Lundgren, Britt; Lupton, Robert H.; Ma, Bo; Ma, Zhibo; MacDonald, Nicholas; MacK, Claude; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Maia, Marcio A.G.; Majewski, Steven R.; Makler, Martin; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Maraston, Claudia; Margala, Daniel; Maseman, Paul; Masters, Karen L.; McBride, Cameron K.; McDonald, Patrick; McGreer, Ian D.; McMahon, Richard G.; Mena Requejo, Olga; Ménard, Brice; Miralda-Escudé, Jordi; Morrison, Heather L.; Mullally, Fergal; Muna, Demitri; Murayama, Hitoshi; Myers, Adam D.; Naugle, Tracy; Neto, Angelo Fausti; Nguyen, Duy Cuong; Nichol, Robert C.; Nidever, David L.; O'Connell, Robert W.; Ogando, Ricardo L.C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Paegert, Martin; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, Kaike; Pandey, Parul; Parejko, John K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Pellegrini, Paulo; Pepper, Joshua; Percival, Will J.; Petitjean, Patrick; Pfaffenberger, Robert; Pforr, Janine; Phleps, Stefanie; Pichon, Christophe; Pieri, Matthew M.; Prada, Francisco; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Raddick, M. Jordan; Ramos, Beatriz H.F.; Reid, I. Neill; Reyle, Celine; Rich, James; Richards, Gordon T.; Rieke, George H.; Rieke, Marcia J.; Rix, Hans Walter; Robin, Annie C.; Rocha-Pinto, Helio J.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Roe, Natalie A.; Rollinde, Emmanuel; Ross, Ashley J.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Rossetto, Bruno; Snchez, Ariel G.; Santiago, Basilio; Sayres, Conor; Schiavon, Ricardo; Schlegel, David J.; Schlesinger, Katharine J.; Schmidt, Sarah J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Sellgren, Kris; Shelden, Alaina; Sheldon, Erin; Shetrone, Matthew; Shu, Yiping; Silverman, John D.; Simmerer, Jennifer; Simmons, Audrey E.; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Skrutskie, M. F.; Slosar, Ane; Smee, Stephen; Smith, Verne V.; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steele, Oliver; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stockett, Mark H.; Stollberg, Todd; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, Alexander S.; Tanaka, Masayuki; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Thomas, Daniel; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Tojeiro, Rita; Tremonti, Christy A.; Vargas Magãa, Mariana; Verde, Licia; Vogt, Nicole P.; Wake, David A.; Wan, Xiaoke; Wang, Ji; Weaver, Benjamin A.; White, Martin; White, Simon D.M.; Wilson, John C.; Wisniewski, John P.; Wood-Vasey, W. Michael; Yanny, Brian; Yasuda, Naoki; Yèche, Christophe; York, Donald G.; Young, Erick; Zasowski, Gail; Zehavi, Idit; Zhao, Bo.
In: Astronomical Journal, Vol. 142, No. 3, 72, 09.2011.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Weinberg, David H.
AU - Agol, Eric
AU - Aihara, Hiroaki
AU - Allende Prieto, Carlos
AU - Anderson, Scott F.
AU - Arns, James A.
AU - Aubourg, Eric
AU - Bailey, Stephen
AU - Balbinot, Eduardo
AU - Barkhouser, Robert
AU - Beers, Timothy C.
AU - Berlind, Andreas A.
AU - Bickerton, Steven J.
AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry
AU - Blanton, Michael R.
AU - Bochanski, John J.
AU - Bolton, Adam S.
AU - Bosman, Casey T.
AU - Bovy, Jo
AU - Brandt, W. N.
AU - Breslauer, Ben
AU - Brewington, Howard J.
AU - Brinkmann, J.
AU - Brown, Peter J.
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Burger, Dan
AU - Busca, Nicolas G.
AU - Campbell, Heather
AU - Cargile, Phillip A.
AU - Carithers, William C.
AU - Carlberg, Joleen K.
AU - Carr, Michael A.
AU - Chang, Liang
AU - Chen, Yanmei
AU - Chiappini, Cristina
AU - Comparat, Johan
AU - Connolly, Natalia
AU - Cortes, Marina
AU - Croft, Rupert A.C.
AU - Cunha, Katia
AU - Da Costa, Luiz N.
AU - Davenport, James R.A.
AU - Dawson, Kyle
AU - De Lee, Nathan
AU - Porto De Mello, Gustavo F.
AU - De Simoni, Fernando
AU - Dean, Janice
AU - Dhital, Saurav
AU - Ealet, Anne
AU - Ebelke, Garrett L.
AU - Edmondson, Edward M.
AU - Eiting, Jacob M.
AU - Escoffier, Stephanie
AU - Esposito, Massimiliano
AU - Evans, Michael L.
AU - Fan, Xiaohui
AU - Femenía Castell, Bruno
AU - Dutra Ferreira, Leticia
AU - Fitzgerald, Greg
AU - Fleming, Scott W.
AU - Font-Ribera, Andreu
AU - Ford, Eric B.
AU - Frinchaboy, Peter M.
AU - García Pérez, Ana Elia
AU - Gaudi, B. Scott
AU - Ge, Jian
AU - Ghezzi, Luan
AU - Gillespie, Bruce A.
AU - Gilmore, G.
AU - Girardi, Léo
AU - Gott, J. Richard
AU - Gould, Andrew
AU - Grebel, Eva K.
AU - Gunn, James E.
AU - Hamilton, Jean Christophe
AU - Harding, Paul
AU - Harris, David W.
AU - Hawley, Suzanne L.
AU - Hearty, Frederick R.
AU - Hennawi, Joseph F.
AU - Gonzlez Hernndez, Jonay I.
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Hogg, David W.
AU - Holtzman, Jon A.
AU - Honscheid, Klaus
AU - Inada, Naohisa
AU - Ivans, Inese I.
AU - Jiang, Linhua
AU - Jiang, Peng
AU - Johnson, Jennifer A.
AU - Jordan, Cathy
AU - Jordan, Wendell P.
AU - Kauffmann, Guinevere
AU - Kazin, Eyal
AU - Kirkby, David
AU - Klaene, Mark A.
AU - Knapp, G. R.
AU - Kneib, Jean Paul
AU - Kochanek, C. S.
AU - Koesterke, Lars
AU - Kollmeier, Juna A.
AU - Kron, Richard G.
AU - Lampeitl, Hubert
AU - Lang, Dustin
AU - Lawler, James E.
AU - Le Goff, Jean Marc
AU - Lee, Brian L.
AU - Lee, Young Sun
AU - Leisenring, Jarron M.
AU - Lin, Yen Ting
AU - Liu, Jian
AU - Long, Daniel C.
AU - Loomis, Craig P.
AU - Lucatello, Sara
AU - Lundgren, Britt
AU - Lupton, Robert H.
AU - Ma, Bo
AU - Ma, Zhibo
AU - MacDonald, Nicholas
AU - MacK, Claude
AU - Mahadevan, Suvrath
AU - Maia, Marcio A.G.
AU - Majewski, Steven R.
AU - Makler, Martin
AU - Malanushenko, Elena
AU - Malanushenko, Viktor
AU - Mandelbaum, Rachel
AU - Maraston, Claudia
AU - Margala, Daniel
AU - Maseman, Paul
AU - Masters, Karen L.
AU - McBride, Cameron K.
AU - McDonald, Patrick
AU - McGreer, Ian D.
AU - McMahon, Richard G.
AU - Mena Requejo, Olga
AU - Ménard, Brice
AU - Miralda-Escudé, Jordi
AU - Morrison, Heather L.
AU - Mullally, Fergal
AU - Muna, Demitri
AU - Murayama, Hitoshi
AU - Myers, Adam D.
AU - Naugle, Tracy
AU - Neto, Angelo Fausti
AU - Nguyen, Duy Cuong
AU - Nichol, Robert C.
AU - Nidever, David L.
AU - O'Connell, Robert W.
AU - Ogando, Ricardo L.C.
AU - Olmstead, Matthew D.
AU - Oravetz, Daniel J.
AU - Padmanabhan, Nikhil
AU - Paegert, Martin
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Pan, Kaike
AU - Pandey, Parul
AU - Parejko, John K.
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Pellegrini, Paulo
AU - Pepper, Joshua
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Petitjean, Patrick
AU - Pfaffenberger, Robert
AU - Pforr, Janine
AU - Phleps, Stefanie
AU - Pichon, Christophe
AU - Pieri, Matthew M.
AU - Prada, Francisco
AU - Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
AU - Raddick, M. Jordan
AU - Ramos, Beatriz H.F.
AU - Reid, I. Neill
AU - Reyle, Celine
AU - Rich, James
AU - Richards, Gordon T.
AU - Rieke, George H.
AU - Rieke, Marcia J.
AU - Rix, Hans Walter
AU - Robin, Annie C.
AU - Rocha-Pinto, Helio J.
AU - Rockosi, Constance M.
AU - Roe, Natalie A.
AU - Rollinde, Emmanuel
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Ross, Nicholas P.
AU - Rossetto, Bruno
AU - Snchez, Ariel G.
AU - Santiago, Basilio
AU - Sayres, Conor
AU - Schiavon, Ricardo
AU - Schlegel, David J.
AU - Schlesinger, Katharine J.
AU - Schmidt, Sarah J.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Sellgren, Kris
AU - Shelden, Alaina
AU - Sheldon, Erin
AU - Shetrone, Matthew
AU - Shu, Yiping
AU - Silverman, John D.
AU - Simmerer, Jennifer
AU - Simmons, Audrey E.
AU - Sivarani, Thirupathi
AU - Skrutskie, M. F.
AU - Slosar, Ane
AU - Smee, Stephen
AU - Smith, Verne V.
AU - Snedden, Stephanie A.
AU - Stassun, Keivan G.
AU - Steele, Oliver
AU - Steinmetz, Matthias
AU - Stockett, Mark H.
AU - Stollberg, Todd
AU - Strauss, Michael A.
AU - Szalay, Alexander S.
AU - Tanaka, Masayuki
AU - Thakar, Aniruddha R.
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Tinker, Jeremy L.
AU - Tofflemire, Benjamin M.
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Tremonti, Christy A.
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AU - Verde, Licia
AU - Vogt, Nicole P.
AU - Wake, David A.
AU - Wan, Xiaoke
AU - Wang, Ji
AU - Weaver, Benjamin A.
AU - White, Martin
AU - White, Simon D.M.
AU - Wilson, John C.
AU - Wisniewski, John P.
AU - Wood-Vasey, W. Michael
AU - Yanny, Brian
AU - Yasuda, Naoki
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AU - York, Donald G.
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PY - 2011/9
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N2 - Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS Data Release 8 (DR8), which was made public in 2011 January and includes SDSS-I and SDSS-II images and spectra reprocessed with the latest pipelines and calibrations produced for the SDSS-III investigations. This paper presents an overview of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lyα forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature of large-scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z < 0.7 and at z ≈ 2.5. SEGUE-2, an already completed SDSS-III survey that is the continuation of the SDSS-II Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), measured medium-resolution (R = λ/Δλ 1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, will obtain high-resolution (R 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ≥ 100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51 μm < λ < 1.70 μm) spectra of 105 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for 15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. The Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS) will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m s -1, 24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. As of 2011 January, SDSS-III has obtained spectra of more than 240,000 galaxies, 29,000 z ≥ 2.2 quasars, and 140,000 stars, including 74,000 velocity measurements of 2580 stars for MARVELS.
AB - Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS Data Release 8 (DR8), which was made public in 2011 January and includes SDSS-I and SDSS-II images and spectra reprocessed with the latest pipelines and calibrations produced for the SDSS-III investigations. This paper presents an overview of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lyα forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature of large-scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z < 0.7 and at z ≈ 2.5. SEGUE-2, an already completed SDSS-III survey that is the continuation of the SDSS-II Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), measured medium-resolution (R = λ/Δλ 1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, will obtain high-resolution (R 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ≥ 100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51 μm < λ < 1.70 μm) spectra of 105 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for 15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. The Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS) will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m s -1, 24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. As of 2011 January, SDSS-III has obtained spectra of more than 240,000 galaxies, 29,000 z ≥ 2.2 quasars, and 140,000 stars, including 74,000 velocity measurements of 2580 stars for MARVELS.
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