The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Citation:

Adelman-McCarthy JK, Agüeros MA, Allam SS, Anderson KSJ, Anderson SF, Annis J, Bahcall NA, Baldry IK, Barentine JC, Berlind A, et al. The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 2006;162 :38-48.

Date Published:

January 1, 2006

Abstract:

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital SkySurvey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004June. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180million objects selected over 6670 deg2 and 673,280 spectraof galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 4783 deg2 ofthose imaging data using the standard SDSS target selection algorithms.

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