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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 16-23 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 4834 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Event | Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6- to 10- Meter-Class telescopes II - Waikoloa, HI, United States Duration: Aug 22 2002 → Aug 23 2002 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Optical Imaging and Redshift Surveys