The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
| dc.creator | Loveday, Jon | |
| dc.creator | Pier, Jeff | |
| dc.date | 1998-09-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:27:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:27:55Z | |
| dc.description | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will image the sky in five passbands to a limiting magnitude of r' ~ 23. Selected from the imaging survey, 10^6 galaxies, 10^5 quasars and selected samples of stars will be observed spectroscopically. In addition, a smaller (225 deg^2), deeper, southern survey will reach ~2.0 magnitudes fainter and will contain a wealth of information about variable sources, supernovae and proper motions. We describe the current status of the survey, which recently saw first light, and its prospects for constraining cosmological models. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 1 embedded figure. To appear in proceedings of the 14th IAP meeting "Wide field surveys in cosmology", ed. Y. Mellier et al | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809179 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809179 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/12906 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey | |
| dc.type | text |