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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

2000; Institute of Physics; Volume: 120; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/301513

1538-3881

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. MacKinnon, 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. Nonino, 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,

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

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 106 brightest galaxies and 105 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.