@article {28088,
	title = {The Application of Photometric Redshifts to the SDSS Early Data Release},
	journal = {The Astronomical Journal},
	volume = {125},
	year = {2003},
	note = {n/a},
	month = {February 1, 2003},
	pages = {580-592},
	abstract = {The Early Data Release (EDR) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey providesone of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently availableto the astronomical community. In this paper we present the firstapplication of photometric redshifts to the ~6 million extended sourcesin these data (with 1.8 million sources having r{\textquoteright}\&lt;21). Utilizing arange of photometric redshift techniques, from empirical to template andhybrid techniques, we investigate the statistical and systematicuncertainties present in the redshift estimates for the EDR data. Forr{\textquoteright}\&lt;21, we find that the redshift estimates provide realistic redshifthistograms with an rms uncertainty in the photometric redshift relationof 0.035 at r{\textquoteright}\&lt;18 and rising to 0.1 at r{\textquoteright}\&lt;21. We conclude bydescribing how these photometric redshifts and derived quantities, suchas spectral type, rest-frame colors, and absolute magnitudes, are storedin the SDSS database. We provide sample queries for searching onphotometric redshifts and list the current caveats and issues thatshould be understood before using these photometric redshifts instatistical analyses of the SDSS galaxies.
},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AJ....125..580C},
	author = {Csabai, Istv{\'a}n and Budav{\'a}ri, Tam{\'a}s and Connolly, Andrew J. and Szalay, Alexander S. and Gy{\H o}ry, Zsuzsanna and Ben{\'\i}tez, Narciso and Annis, Jim and Brinkmann, Jon and Eisenstein, Daniel and Fukugita, Masataka and Gunn, Jim and Kent, Stephen and Lupton, Robert and Nichol, Robert C. and Stoughton, Chris}
}
