A survey of surveys
Abstract
A new era for the field of Galactic structure is about to be opened with the advent of wide-area digital sky surveys. In this article, the author reviews the status and prospects for research for 3 new ground-based surveys: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) and the Two Micron AU Sky Survey (2MASS). These surveys will permit detailed studies of Galactic structure and stellar populations in the Galaxy with unprecedented detail. Extracting the information, however, will be challenging.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- November 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994STIN...9526284K
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Models;
- Galactic Structure;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Astronomical Spectroscopy;
- Astrophysics;
- Galactic Evolution;
- Galaxies;
- Southern Sky;
- Astrophysics