The synergy between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and large telescopes

Michael A. Strauss

doi:10.1117/12.457895

13 February 2003 Synergy between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and large telescopes

Michael A. Strauss

Proceedings Volume 4834, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457895
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey represents a new paradigm for optical astronomy. It is a consortium involving several hundred astronomers from the US, Japan, and Germany, and aims to obtain basic photometric and spectroscopic data of a large representative region of the high Galactic latitude sky. Using a dedicated wide-field 2.5m telescope and unique instrumentation and software, it is imaging the sky in five photometric bands, and obtaining high-quality spectra of magnitude-limited samples of galaxies and quasars. Many of the exciting scientific results to come from this survey have been a result of follow-up of the intriguing objects found with SDSS on larger and specialized instruments, including Keck, the VLT, and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. I discuss the synergy between the SDSS and the larger telescopes, with emphasis on studies of high-redshift quasars, and discuss how the SDSS and similar surveys are performing an important role in providing the basis for studies with these larger telescopes.

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Michael A. Strauss "Synergy between the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and large telescopes", Proc. SPIE 4834, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes II, (13 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457895

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