Seventh Sloan Sky Survey Scoops Stellar Spoils

摘要

The publication of the Seventh Data Release (DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) marks the completion of the original goals of a project that commenced two decades ago. SDSS is the most ambitious optical survey of the sky in the history of astronomy. Hot Paper #9 now takes over from #10, the sixth release of SDSS, by adding a further two years of observations. Meanwhile the Physics Hot Papers leader-board is headed once again by the cosmological findings from five years of operation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, with #3 on the grid also coming from the WMAP team.