Star Formation Studies with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Abstract
The determination of timescales associated with planetary formation and circumstellar disk evolution requires large samples of stars having diverse environments and ages. Such a sample can be obtained using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as it is systematically mapping one-quarter of the entire sky providing photometric data on over 100 million objects in five passbands.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 2001
- Bibcode:
- 2001STIN...0175402M
- Keywords:
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- Planetary Evolution;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Star Formation;
- Stellar Envelopes;
- Spectroscopy;
- Photometry;
- Astrophysics