The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is going to carry out a uniform survey of π steradians of the sky in the Northern Galactic cap and ∼ 225 deg2 in the Southern Hemisphere. The survey consists of a photometric and a spectroscopic survey. The SDSS will generate accurate photometry in five bands of approximately tens of millions of galaxies, tens of millions of stars and roughly a million quasars. It will also take spectra and measure redshifts of approximately a million galaxies and ten thousand quasars.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- June 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1023/A:1002196414003
- Bibcode:
- 1998Ap&SS.263...91C
- Keywords:
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- Spectroscopy;
- Southern Hemisphere;
- Wide Field;
- Science Database;
- Field Corrector