We review the physical properties of nearby, relatively luminous galaxies, using results from
newly available massive data sets together with more detailed observations. First, we …

In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph …

In the course of its commissioning observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has
produced one of the largest redshift samples of galaxies selected from CCD images. Using …

… The method is described in detail by MR Blanton (2003, in preparation), and we outline it
briefly here. It is akin to the stepwise maximum likelihood (SWML) method of Efstathiou, Ellis, & …

Here we present the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC), a
catalog of local galaxies (mostly below z≈ 0.3) based on a set of publicly released surveys …

Using photometry and spectroscopy of 183,487 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
we present bivariate distributions of pairs of seven galaxy properties: four optical colors, …

… In these analyses a function K(z) is added to the standard cosmological bolometric distance
modulus DM(z) to obtain the relationship between the apparent magnitude mR of band R …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et al. 2000) started observations in 1998 and has
completed three different phases. The data collected includes optical imaging of most of the …

Template fits to observed galaxy fluxes allow calculation of K-corrections and conversions
among observations of galaxies at various wavelengths. We present a method for creating …

… To do so, we insert fake galaxies into the raw data, using the same tools developed by
Blanton et al. (2005a) and used by several other investigators since (Blanton et al. 2005b; …