Citation:
Adelman-McCarthy JK, Agüeros MA, Allam SS, Allende Prieto C, Anderson KSJ, Anderson SF, Annis J, Bahcall NA, Bailer-Jones CAL, Baldry IK. The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series [Internet]. 2008;175:297-313.
Abstract:
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital SkySurvey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic capis now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly287 million objects over 9583 deg2, including scans over alarge range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes. The survey alsoincludes 1.27 million spectra of stars, galaxies, quasars, and blank sky(for sky subtraction) selected over 7425 deg2 . This releaseincludes much more stellar spectroscopy than was available in previousdata releases and also includes detailed estimates of stellartemperatures, gravities, and metallicities. The results of improvedphotometric calibration are now available, with uncertainties of roughly