The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Publication information:
Adelman-McCarthy J, Agüeros M, Allam S, Anderson K, Anderson S, Annis J, Bahcall N, Bailer-Jones C, Baldry I, Barentine, et al. The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 2007;172:634–644.
Abstract
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan DigitalSky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I project (whosesuccessor, SDSS-II, will continue through mid-2008). It includesfive-band photometric data for 217 million objects selected over 8000deg2 and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and starsselected from 5713 deg2 of that imaging data. These numbers