The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

Authors
York, DG Adelman, J Anderson, JE Anderson, SF Annis, J Bahcall, NA Bakken, JA Barkhouser, R Bastian, S Berman, E Boroski, WN Bracker, S Briegel, C Briggs, JW Brinkmann, J Brunner, R Burles, S Carey, L Carr, MA Castander, FJ Chen, B Colestock, PL Connolly, AJ Crocker, JH Csabai, I Czarapata, PC Davis, JE Doi, M Dombeck, T Eisenstein, D Ellman, N Elms, BR Evans, ML Fan, XH Federwitz, GR Fiscelli, L Friedman, S Frieman, JA Fukugita, M Gillespie, B Gunn, JE Gurbani, VK de Haas, E Haldeman, M Harris, FH Hayes, J Heckman, TM Hennessy, GS Hindsley, RB Holm, S Holmgren, DJ Huang, CH Hull, C Husby, D Ichikawa, S Ichikawa, T Ivezic, Z Kent, S Kim, RSJ Kinney, E Klaene, M Kleinman, AN Kleinman, S Knapp, GR Korienek, J Kron, RG Kunszt, PZ Lamb, DQ Lee, B Leger, RF Limmongkol, S Lindenmeyer, C Long, DC Loomis, C Loveday, J Lucinio, R Lupton, RH MacKinnon, B Mannery, EJ Mantsch, PM Margon, B McGehee, P McKay, TA Meiksin, A Merelli, A Monet, DG Munn, JA Narayanan, VK Nash, T Neilsen, E Neswold, R Newberg, HJ Nichol, RC Nicinski, T Nonino, M Okada, N Okamura, S Ostriker, JP Owen, R Pauls, AG Peoples, J Peterson, RL Petravick, D Pier, JR Pope, A Pordes, R Prosapio, A Rechenmacher, R Quinn, TR Richards, GT Richmond, MW Rivetta, CH Rockosi, CM Ruthmansdorfer, K Sandford, D Schlegel, DJ Schneider, DP Sekiguchi, M Sergey, G Shimasaku, K Siegmund, WA Smee, S Smith, JA Snedden, S Stone, R Stoughton, C Strauss, MA Stubbs, C SubbaRao, M Szalay, AS Szapudi, I Szokoly, GP Thakar, AR Tremonti, C Tucker, DL Uomoto, A Berk, DV Vogeley, MS Waddell, P Wang, SI Watanabe, M Weinberg, DH Yanny, B Yasuda, N
Citation
Dg. York et al., The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary, ASTRONOM J, 120(3), 2000, pp. 1579-1587
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00046256 → ACNP
Volume
120
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1579 - 1587
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6256(200009)120:3<1579:TSDSST>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detail ed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital ima ging survey of pi sr above about Galactic latitude 30 degrees in five broad optical bands to a depth of g' similar to 23 mag, and a spectroscopic surv ey of the approximately 10(6) brightest galaxies and 10(5) brightest quasar s found in the photometric object catalog produced by the imaging survey. T his paper summarizes the observational parameters and data products of the SDSS and serves as an introduction to extensive technical on-line documenta tion.