The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2004/10/08 by Kevork N. Abazajian, K. Abazajian et al., Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy +98 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science #Digital data #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Geography #Physics #Remote sensing #Sky #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Telecommunications #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/427544

published as Astron.J.129:1755-1759,2005 · 14 pages, including 2 postscript figures. Submitted to AJ. Data available at http://www.sdss.org/dr3

arxiv created 2004/10/08 · openalex publication_date 2005/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/08

Abstract

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg 2 , photometric and astrometric catalogs of the 141 million objects detected in these imaging data, and spectra of 528,640 objects selected over 4188 deg 2 . The pipelines analyzing both images and spectroscopy are unchanged from those used in our Second Data Release.

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