The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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dc.creatorGunn, James E.
dc.creatorSiegmund, Walter A.
dc.creatoral, Edward J. Mannery et
dc.date2006-02-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:42:29Z
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dc.descriptionWe describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritchey-Chretien design which has a 2.5-m, f/2.25 primary, a 1.08-m secondary, a Gascoigne astigmatism corrector, and one of a pair of interchangeable highly aspheric correctors near the focal focal plane, one for imaging and the other for spectroscopy. The final focal ratio is f/5. The telescope is instrumented by a wide-area, multiband CCD camera and a pair of fiber-fed double spectrographs. Novel features of the telescope include: (1) A 3 degree diameter (0.65 m) focal plane that has excellent image quality and small geometrical distortions over a wide wavelength range (3000 to 10,600 Angstroms) in the imaging mode, and good image quality combined with very small lateral and longitudinal color errors in the spectroscopic mode. The unusual requirement of very low distortion is set by the demands of time-delay-and-integrate (TDI) imaging; (2) Very high precision motion to support open loop TDI observations; and (3) A unique wind baffle/enclosure construction to maximize image quality and minimize construction costs. The telescope had first light in May 1998 and began regular survey operations in 2000.
dc.description87 pages, 27 figures. AJ (in press, April 2006)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602326
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602326
dc.identifierAstron.J.131:2332-2359,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/500975
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200902
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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