The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imaging survey of π sr above about Galactic latitude 30° in five broad optical bands to a depth ofg' ~ 23 mag, and a spectroscopic survey of the approximately 106brightest galaxies and 105brightest quasars found in the photometric object catalog produced by the imaging survey. This paper summarizes the observational parameters and data products of the SDSS and serves as an introduction to extensive technical on-line documentation.

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Affiliated Institutions

• W.M. Keck Observatory US
• Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées FR
• Los Alamos National Laboratory US
• United States Naval Research Laboratory US
• California Institute of Technology US
• Yale University US
• Carnegie Observatories US
• United States Naval Observatory US
• Carnegie Mellon University US
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory US
• University of Chicago US
• University of Pittsburgh US
• Eötvös Loránd University HU
• Princeton University US
• University of Michigan US
• Royal Observatory GB
• Tokyo University of Science JP
• University of Washington US
• Johns Hopkins University US
• Institute for Advanced Study US
• The University of Tokyo JP
• Tohoku University JP
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan JP
• Trieste Astronomical Observatory IT
• Williams (United States) US

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