The Science Legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

摘要

The Hot Papers in Physics for this period include the fifth (paper #8) and sixth (#6) releases of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The release of the seventh and final SDSS dataset, published in May 2009 (Astrophys. J. Supp. Ser., 182[2]: 545-58), marks the completion of the original goals of the SDSS, launched a decade ago. Now is an appropriate time to review the science achievements of this remarkable project. All of the survey's data-release papers have featured as highly cited papers in Science Watch, because the data have supported a large number of research projects in the global community of astronomers.