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The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Author(s) -

James E. Gunn,

Walter A. Siegmund,

Edward J. Mannery,

Russell Owen,

Charles L. H. Hull,

R. French Leger,

Larry Carey,

G. R. Knapp,

Donald G. York,

William N. Boroski,

S. Kent,

Robert H. Lupton,

Constance M. Rockosi,

Michael L. Evans,

Patrick Waddell,

John E. Anderson,

J. Annis,

John C. Barentine,

L. Bartoszek,

Steven Bastian,

S. B. Bracker,

H. Brewington,

C. Briegel,

J. Brinkmann,

Yorke J. Brown,

Michael A. Carr,

Paul C. Czarapata,

C. Drennan,

T. Dombeck,

Glenn R. Federwitz,

Bruce Gillespie,

Carlos Gomez Gonzales,

Sten Hansen,

Michael Harvanek,

J. J. E. Hayes,

Wendell P. Jordan,

E. Kinney,

Mark A. Klaene,

S. J. Kleinman,

Richard G. Kron,

Jurek Kresinski,

Glenn Lee,

Siriluk Limmongkol,

C. Lindenmeyer,

Daniel C. Long,

Craig L. Loomis,

P. McGehee,

P. Mantsch,

Eric H. Neilsen,

Richard Neswold,

Peter R. Newman,

A. Nitta,

J. Peoples,

Jeffrey R. Pier,

P. Prieto,

Angela Prosapio,

Claudio Rivetta,

Donald P. Schneider,

Stephanie A. Snedden,

Shu-i Wang

Publication year - 2006

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 - 10.1086/500975

Subject(s) - telescope , sky , physics , optics , cardinal point , observatory , secondary mirror , image quality , aperture (computer memory) , distortion (music) , cassegrain reflector , first light , primary mirror , remote sensing , computer science , astronomy , artificial intelligence , geology , image (mathematics) , optoelectronics , acoustics , amplifier , light source , cmos

We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan DigitalSky Survey Telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is amodified two-corrector Ritchey-Chretien design which has a 2.5-m, f/2.25primary, a 1.08-m secondary, a Gascoigne astigmatism corrector, and one of apair of interchangeable highly aspheric correctors near the focal focal plane,one for imaging and the other for spectroscopy. The final focal ratio is f/5.The telescope is instrumented by a wide-area, multiband CCD camera and a pairof fiber-fed double spectrographs. Novel features of the telescope include: (1)A 3 degree diameter (0.65 m) focal plane that has excellent image quality andsmall geometrical distortions over a wide wavelength range (3000 to 10,600Angstroms) in the imaging mode, and good image quality combined with very smalllateral and longitudinal color errors in the spectroscopic mode. The unusualrequirement of very low distortion is set by the demands oftime-delay-and-integrate (TDI) imaging; (2) Very high precision motion tosupport open loop TDI observations; and (3) A unique wind baffle/enclosureconstruction to maximize image quality and minimize construction costs. Thetelescope had first light in May 1998 and began regular survey operations in2000.Comment: 87 pages, 27 figures. AJ (in press, April 2006

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