The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary¶
Why this mattered¶
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Abstract¶
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and non- luminous matter in the Universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrated digital imaging survey of pi steradians above about Galactic latitude 30 degrees in five broad optical bands to a depth of g' about 23 magnitudes, and a spectroscopic survey of the approximately one million brightest galaxies and 10^5 brightest 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.
Related¶
- cite → Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds — The SDSS technical summary cites Schlegel, Finkbeiner, and Davis dust maps for Galactic reddening corrections in survey photometry.
- enables → The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) — SDSS demonstrated large-scale digital sky-survey pipelines and calibration practices that framed 2MASS as a complementary all-sky infrared survey.
- enables → THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE — SDSS demonstrated large-scale automated sky survey design and data pipelines that informed later all-sky survey missions such as WISE.
- cite ← The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) — 2MASS cites SDSS as a complementary large-area sky survey with different wavelength coverage and survey design.
- cite ← THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE — WISE cites the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as an optical survey providing comparison data for WISE source identification and calibration.
Sources¶
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/301513
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2157917411