Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Latex, 12 pages including 1 figure, uses spie.cls and spiebib.bst, accepted for publication in Proc. SPIE vol. 5492, Ground Ba
Scientific paper
10.1117/12.541394
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the largest redshift survey conducted to date, and the principal survey observations have all been conducted on the dedicated SDSS 2.5m and 0.5m telescopes at Apache Point Observatory. While the whole survey has many unique features, this article concentrates on a description of the systems surrounding the dual fibre-input spectrographs that obtain all the survey spectra and that are capable of recording 5,760 individual spectra per night on an industrial, consistent, mass-production basis. It is hoped that the successes and lessons learned will prove instructive for future large spectrographic surveys.
Barentine John C.
Brewington Howard J.
for the SDSS Collaboration
Harvanek Michael
Kleinman Scot James
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