The Sloan digital sky survey: Status and prospects
Conference
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OSTI ID:237362
- Fermilab
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to definitively map $$\pi$$ steradians of the local Universe. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will digitally image the sky in five passbands to a limiting magnitude of $$r' \sim 23$$. Selected from the imaging survey, $10^6$ galaxies and $10^5$ quasars will be observed spectroscopically. I describe the current status of the survey, which is due to begin observations early in 1997, and its prospects for constraining models for dark matter in the Universe.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- Contributing Organization:
- SDSS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 237362
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-96-100; arXiv:astro-ph/9605028; oai:inspirehep.net:418363
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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