Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

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¹ Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

² Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

³ Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721

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¹¹ Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile

¹² Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Midori, Tanashi, Tokyo 188-8502, Japan

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