Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a project which will produce a detailed digital phometric map of half the northern sky to about 23 magnitude using a special purpose wide field telescope of 2.5 meter aperture. This map will be used to select about a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars, for which high resolution spectra will be obtained using the same telescope. A catalog will be produced of all the detected objects, about 100 million galaxies and a similar number of stars, and a million quasar candidates.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- July 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00990018
- Bibcode:
- 1994Ap&SS.217...27K
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Astronomical Maps;
- Astronomical Photometry;
- Astronomy;
- Galaxies;
- Quasars;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Stars;
- Charge Coupled Devices;
- Diagrams;
- Digital Data;
- Focal Plane Devices;
- Tables (Data);
- Telescopes;
- Astronomy;
- Surveys;
- SDSS