The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
Donald G. York, Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy, John Erik Anderson, Scott F. Anderson, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, Robert H. Barkhouser, Steven Bastian, Eileen Berman, William N. Boroski, Steve Bracker, Charlie Briegel, John W. Briggs, Jon Brinkmann, Róbert Brunner, Scott M. Burles, Larry N. Carey, Michael A. Carr, Francisco Javier Castander, Bing Chen, Patrick L. Colestock, Andrew J. Connolly, James H. Crocker, István Csabai, Paul C. Czarapata, John Eric Davis, Mamoru Doi, Tom Dombeck, Daniel J. Eisenstein, N. Ellman, Brian R. Elms, Xiaohui Fan, Glenn R. Federwitz, Larry Fiscelli, S. D. Friedman, Joshua A. Frieman, M. Fukugita, Bruce Gillespie, James E. Gunn, Vijay K. Gurbani, Ernst de Haas, Merle Haldeman, Frederick H. Harris, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes, Timothy M. Heckman, Gregory S. Hennessy, Robert B. Hindsley, Scott Holm, D. J. Holmgren, Chi-hao Huang, Charles L. H. Hull, D. Husby, Shin-ichi Ichikawa, Takashi Ichikawa, Željko Ivezić, S. Kent, Rita S. J. Kim, Ellyne K. Kinney, Mark A. Klaene, A. N. Kleinman, S. J. Kleinman, Gillian R. Knapp, John Korienek, Richard G. Kron, Peter Kunszt, D. Q. Lamb, B. Lee, R. French Leger, Siriluk Limmongkol, C. Lindenmeyer, Daniel C. Long, Craig Loomis, Jon Loveday, Richard Lucinio, Robert H. Lupton, B. MacKinnon, Edward J. Mannery, Paul M. Mantsch, B. Margon, P. McGehee, Timothy A. McKay, Avery A. Meiksin, Aronne Merelli, David G. Monet, Jeffrey A. Munn, Vijay K. Narayanan, Thomas Nash, Eric H. Neilsen, R. Neswold, Heidi Jo Newberg, Robert C. Nichol, Tom Nicinski, M. Nonino, Norio Okada, Sadanori Okamura, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Russell E. Owen, A. George Pauls
The Astronomical Journal · 2000 · 10,418 citationsOpen access
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imaging survey of π sr above about Galactic latitude 30° in five broad optical bands to a depth of g ' ∼ 23 mag, and a spectroscopic survey of the approximately 10 6 brightest galaxies and 10 5 brightest quasars found in the photometric object catalog produced by the imaging survey. This paper summarizes the observational parameters and data products of the SDSS and serves as an introduction to extensive technical on-line documentation.
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York, D. G., Adelman-McCarthy, J., Anderson, J. E., Anderson, S. F., Annis, J., Bahcall, N. A., Bakken, J. A., Barkhouser, R. H., Bastian, S., Berman, E., Boroski, W. N., Bracker, S., Briegel, C., Briggs, J. W., Brinkmann, J., Brunner, R., Burles, S. M., Carey, L. N., Carr, M. A., … Pauls, A. G. (2000). The sloan digital sky survey: Technical summary. The Astronomical Journal, 120(3), 1579–1587. https://doi.org/10.1086/301513
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