The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Citation:

Abazajian K, Adelman-McCarthy JK, Agüeros MA, Allam SS, Anderson KSJ, Anderson SF, Annis J, Bahcall NA, Baldry IK, Bastian S, et al. The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astronomical Journal. 2005;129 :1755-1759.

Date Published:

March 1, 2005

Abstract:

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital SkySurvey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June,includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg2,photometric and astrometric catalogs of the 141 million objects detectedin these imaging data, and spectra of 528,640 objects selected over 4188deg2. The pipelines analyzing both images and spectroscopyare unchanged from those used in our Second Data Release.

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