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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
Author(s) -
Donald G. York,
Jennifer Adelman,
John E. Anderson,
Scott F. Anderson,
James Annis,
Neta A. Bahcall,
Jon Arne Bakken,
Robert H. Barkhouser,
Steven Bastian,
Eileen Berman,
William N. Boroski,
S. Bracker,
Charlie Briegel,
John W. Briggs,
J. Brinkmann,
Róbert Brunner,
Scott Burles,
Larry Carey,
Michael A. Carr,
F. J. Castander,
Bing Chen,
P. Colestock,
Andrew J. Connolly,
James H. Crocker,
István Csabai,
Paul C. Czarapata,
John E. Davis,
Mamoru Doi,
T. Dombeck,
Daniel J. Eisenstein,
N. Ellman,
Brian Elms,
Michael L. Evans,
Xiaohui Fan,
Glenn R. Federwitz,
Larry Fiscelli,
S. D. Friedman,
Joshua A. Frieman,
M. Fukugita,
Bruce Gillespie,
James E. Gunn,
Vijay K. Gurbani,
E. de Haas,
M. Haldeman,
Frederick H. Harris,
J. J. E. Hayes,
Timothy M. Heckman,
G. S. Hennessy,
Robert B. Hindsley,
S. Holm,
D. Holmgren,
Chi-hao Huang,
Charles L. H. Hull,
D. Husby,
Shin-ichi Ichikawa,
Takashi Ichikawa,
Željko Ivezić,
S. Kent,
Rita S. J. Kim,
E. Kinney,
Mark A. Klaene,
A. Nitta Kleinman,
S. J. Kleinman,
G. R. Knapp,
J. Korienek,
Richard G. Kron,
Peter Kunszt,
D. Q. Lamb,
B. Lee,
R. French Leger,
Siriluk Limmongkol,
C. Lindenmeyer,
Daniel C. Long,
Craig Loomis,
J. Loveday,
Rich Lucinio,
Robert H. Lupton,
B. MacKin,
Edward J. Mannery,
P. Mantsch,
B. Margon,
P. McGehee,
Timothy A. McKay,
Avery Meiksin,
Aronne Merelli,
D. G. Monet,
Jeffrey A. Munn,
Vijay K. Narayanan,
Thomas Nash,
Eric H. Neilsen,
R. Neswold,
Heidi Jo Newberg,
R. C. Nichol,
Tom Nicinski,
M. ino,
Norio Okada,
Sadanori Okamura,
Jeremiah P. Ostriker,
Russell Owen,
A. George Pauls,
J. Peoples,
Roy Peterson,
Donald Petravick,
Jeffrey R. Pier,
Adrian Pope,
R. Pordes,
Angela Prosapio,
R. Rechenmacher,
Thomas Quinn,
Gordon T. Richards,
M. Richmond,
Claudio Rivetta,
Constance M. Rockosi,
Kurt Ruthmansdorfer,
Dale Sandford,
David J. Schlegel,
Donald P. Schneider,
M. Sekiguchi,
G. Sergey,
Kazuhiro Shimasaku,
Walter A. Siegmund,
Stephen A. Smee,
J. A. Smith,
S. Snedden,
R. Stone,
Chris Stoughton,
Michael A. Strauss,
C. W. Stubbs,
Mark SubbaRao,
Alexander S. Szalay,
István Szapudi,
G. Szokoly,
A. Thakar,
Christy Tremonti,
D. L. Tucker,
Alan Uomoto,
Dan Vanden Berk,
Michael S. Vogeley,
Patrick Waddell,
Shu-i Wang,
Masaru Watanabe,
David H. Weinberg,
B. Yanny,
Naoki Yasuda
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the astronomical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.61
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1538-3881
pISSN - 0004-6256
DOI - 10.1086/301513
Subject(s) - sky , galaxy , astronomy , quasar , physics , astrophysics , active galactic nucleus , documentation , remote sensing , geography , computer science , programming language
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailedinvestigations of the distribution of luminous and non- luminous matter in theUniverse: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imagingsurvey of pi steradians above about Galactic latitude 30 degrees in five broadoptical bands to a depth of g' about 23 magnitudes, and a spectroscopic surveyof the approximately one million brightest galaxies and 10^5 brightest quasarsfound in the photometric object catalog produced by the imaging survey. Thispaper summarizes the observational parameters and data products of the SDSS,and serves as an introduction to extensive technical on-line documentation.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, AAS Latex. To appear in AJ, Sept 200

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