@article{17799,
  abstract     = {The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈106 galaxies, 100,000 quasars, 30,000 stars, and 30,000 serendipity targets. In 2001 June, the SDSS released to the general astronomical community its early data release, roughly 462 deg2 of imaging data including almost 14 million detected objects and 54,008 follow-up spectra. The imaging data were collected in drift-scan mode in five bandpasses (u, g, r, i, and z); our 95% completeness limits for stars are 22.0, 22.2, 22.2, 21.3, and 20.5, respectively. The photometric calibration is reproducible to 5%, 3%, 3%, 3%, and 5%, respectively. The spectra are flux- and wavelength-calibrated, with 4096 pixels from 3800 to 9200 Å at R ≈ 1800. We present the means by which these data are distributed to the astronomical community, descriptions of the hardware used to obtain the data, the software used for processing the data, the measured quantities for each observed object, and an overview of the properties of this data set.},
  author       = {Stoughton, Chris and Lupton, Robert H. and Bernardi, Mariangela and Blanton, Michael R. and Burles, Scott and Castander, Francisco J. and Connolly, A. J. and Eisenstein, Daniel J. and Frieman, Joshua A. and Hennessy, G. S. and Hindsley, Robert B. and Ivezić, Željko and Kent, Stephen and Kunszt, Peter Z. and Lee, Brian C. and Meiksin, Avery and Munn, Jeffrey A. and Newberg, Heidi Jo and Nichol, R. C. and Nicinski, Tom and Pier, Jeffrey R. and Richards, Gordon T. and Richmond, Michael W. and Schlegel, David J. and Smith, J. Allyn and Strauss, Michael A. and SubbaRao, Mark and Szalay, Alexander S. and Thakar, Aniruddha R. and Tucker, Douglas L. and Vanden Berk, Daniel E. and Yanny, Brian and Adelman, Jennifer K. and Anderson, Jr., John E. and Anderson, Scott F. and Annis, James and Bahcall, Neta A. and Bakken, J. A. and Bartelmann, Matthias and Bastian, Steven and Bauer, Amanda and Berman, Eileen and Böhringer, Hans and Boroski, William N. and Bracker, Steve and Briegel, Charlie and Briggs, John W. and Brinkmann, J. and Brunner, Robert and Carey, Larry and Carr, Michael A. and Chen, Bing and Christian, Damian and Colestock, Patrick L. and Crocker, J. H. and Csabai, István and Czarapata, Paul C. and Dalcanton, Julianne and Davidsen, Arthur F. and Davis, John Eric and Dehnen, Walter and Dodelson, Scott and Doi, Mamoru and Dombeck, Tom and Donahue, Megan and Ellman, Nancy and Elms, Brian R. and Evans, Michael L. and Eyer, Laurent and Fan, Xiaohui and Federwitz, Glenn R. and Friedman, Scott and Fukugita, Masataka and Gal, Roy and Gillespie, Bruce and Glazebrook, Karl and Gray, Jim and Grebel, Eva K. and Greenawalt, Bruce and Greene, Gretchen and Gunn, James E. and de Haas, Ernst and Haiman, Zoltán and Haldeman, Merle and Hall, Patrick B. and Hamabe, Masaru and Hansen, Brad and Harris, Frederick H. and Harris, Hugh and Harvanek, Michael and Hawley, Suzanne L. and Hayes, J. J. E. and Heckman, Timothy M. and Helmi, Amina and Henden, Arne and Hogan, Craig J. and Hogg, David W. and Holmgren, Donald J. and Holtzman, Jon and Huang, Chih-Hao and Hull, Charles and Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi and Ichikawa, Takashi and Johnston, David E. and Kauffmann, Guinevere and Kim, Rita S. J. and Kimball, Tim and Kinney, E. and Klaene, Mark and Kleinman, S. J. and Klypin, Anatoly and Knapp, G. R. and Korienek, John and Krolik, Julian and Kron, Richard G. and Krzesiński, Jurek and Lamb, D. Q. and Leger, R. French and Limmongkol, Siriluk and Lindenmeyer, Carl and Long, Daniel C. and Loomis, Craig and Loveday, Jon and MacKinnon, Bryan and Mannery, Edward J. and Mantsch, P. M. and Margon, Bruce and McGehee, Peregrine and McKay, Timothy A. and McLean, Brian and Menou, Kristen and Merelli, Aronne and Mo, H. J. and Monet, David G. and Nakamura, Osamu and Narayanan, Vijay K. and Nash, Thomas and Neilsen, Jr., Eric H. and Newman, Peter R. and Nitta, Atsuko and Odenkirchen, Michael and Okada, Norio and Okamura, Sadanori and Ostriker, Jeremiah P. and Owen, Russell and Pauls, A. George and Peoples, John and Peterson, R. S. and Petravick, Donald and Pope, Adrian and Pordes, Ruth and Postman, Marc and Prosapio, Angela and Quinn, Thomas R. and Rechenmacher, Ron and Rivetta, Claudio H. and Rix, Hans-Walter and Rockosi, Constance M. and Rosner, Robert and Ruthmansdorfer, Kurt and Sandford, Dale and Schneider, Donald P. and Scranton, Ryan and Sekiguchi, Maki and Sergey, Gary and Sheth, Ravi and Shimasaku, Kazuhiro and Smee, Stephen and Snedden, Stephanie A. and Stebbins, Albert and Stubbs, Christopher and Szapudi, István and Szkody, Paula and Szokoly, Gyula P. and Tabachnik, Serge and Tsvetanov, Zlatan and Uomoto, Alan and Vogeley, Michael S. and Voges, Wolfgang and Waddell, Patrick and Walterbos, René and Wang, Shu-i and Watanabe, Masaru and Weinberg, David H. and White, Richard L. and White, Simon D. M. and Wilhite, Brian and Wolfe, David and Yasuda, Naoki and York, Donald G. and Zehavi, Idit and Zheng, Wei},
  issn         = {1538-3881},
  journal      = {The Astronomical Journal},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {485--548},
  publisher    = {American Astronomical Society},
  title        = {{Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release}},
  doi          = {10.1086/324741},
  volume       = {123},
  year         = {2002},
}