NYU Value-Added Galaxy Catalog
We require the citation of certain publications for users of this catalog, depending on what aspects of the data one is using. All papers should cite the current data release paper, the paper describing the VAGC release, and the paper describing the improved calibrations it uses:
These citation takes care of credit for the survey and its standard procedures, as well as this catalog. Publications using the data must also have the SDSS credits blurb in their acknowledgements. However, there are several other surveys whose public releases we include here, and citations for those using those matches are:
Finally, there are some special mention citations for work that was not part of any survey proper and may be of interest to users who want to understand the catalog and its quantities better:
Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/.
The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.
This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
We would like to thank the 2dFGRS, the PSCz team, and the FIRST team for the release of their catalogs.
We would like to thank New York University, Mulin Ding, Steve Huston, Iskra Strateva, Jen Adelman-McCarthy, Craig Loomis, Andrew Hamilton, and Michael Strauss.