The Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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Authors: | F J Castander |
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Institution: | (1) Dept. Physics &, Applied Physics University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland;(2) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Oxon, OX11 OQX, England;(3) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Oxon, OX11 OQX, England;(4) Istituto di Astronomia Universita di Catania, I-95125 Catania, Italy |
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Abstract: | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is going to carry out a uniform survey of π steradians of the sky in the Northern Galactic
cap and ∼ 225 deg2 in the Southern Hemisphere. The survey consists of a photometric and a spectroscopic survey. The SDSS will generate accurate
photometry in five bands of approximately tens of millions of galaxies, tens of millions of stars and roughly a million quasars.
It will also take spectra and measure redshifts of approximately a million galaxies and ten thousand quasars.
The main characteristics and components of the survey are a dedicated 2.5m telescope, wide field correctors for photometry
and spectroscopy that will provide a field of view of ∼ 3 degrees, a photometric camera with 30 photometric and 22 astrometric
CCDs, and two fibre-fed spectrographs of 320 fibres each. The survey will produce a publicly available science database of
Terabytes dimensions.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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