Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4321. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey employs a special purpose 2.5 m telescope located in New Mexico to create a five-color digital map of 10 000 square degrees of sky, to be complete by about 2005. The images will be used to autonomously select one million objects for spectroscopy, via a multi-object spectrograph mounted on the same telescope, yielding redshifts, and thus distances, for each galaxy. A h...

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