Galaxy Astronomy by Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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SDSS Project, as a whole, did not have ant major problems, foreseeing the completion of the survey in 2005. We have accomplished the first major public data release (DR1) in the spring of 2003. DR1 makes 15% of the total survey available to all astronomical researchers world wide as well as general public. In the spring of 2003, 60% of imaging and 40% of spectroscopy have completed.We have found z=6.4 QSO, the most distant QSO known to the date. Its absorption feature in short wavelength region suggests that z=6.0 is the era when the universe changed from non-ionized to ionized. This observational evidence was first reported by this observation.We continue to find gravitationally lensed QSOs (GL-QSOs). So far, all of them are found by our group using SDSS data. The number of GL-QSO is a few factor smaller than theoretical prediction. This is a very interesting problem need to be studied soon. We also stared to search GL-QSOs that have a large separation and already found several good candidates.We confirmed that there are two special kinds of galaxies, 1) spiral galaxies without star formation (we named them "passive spiral"), and 2) elliptical galaxies with star formation (E+A galaxies). Our analysis suggests that the passive spiral galaxies stopped forming stars because their gas and dust were stripped and that they later on merged into normal elliptical galaxies. On the other hand, we think, E+A galaxies are isolated from clusters and do not contribute to the cluster evolution.