Sloan digital sky survey

Conference · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:10150437

Kent, S M; Stoughton, C; Newberg, H; Loveday, J; Petravick, D; Gurbani, V; Berman, E; Sergey, G ^[1]; Lupton, R ^[2]

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1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)
2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will produce a detailed digital photometric map of half the northern sky to about 23 magnitude using a special purpose wide field 2.5 meter telescope. From this map we will select {approximately} 10{sup 6} galaxies and 10{sup 5} quasars, and obtain high resolution spectra using the same telescope. The imaging catalog will contain 10{sup 8} galaxies, a similar number of stars, and 10{sup 6} quasar candidates.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 10150437
• Report Number(s): FNAL/C-94/084; CONF-9310239-2; ON: DE94011749
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. annual conference on astronomical data analysis software and systems,Victoria (Canada),13-15 Oct 1993; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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