An efficient targeting strategy for multiobject spectrograph surveys: The Sloan digital sky survey "tiling" algorithm

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 4 1768, 2003, Pages 2276-2286

  Blanton, Michael R ^a,b   Lin, Huan ^b   Lupton, Robert H ^c   Maley, F Miller ^d   Young, Neal ^e   Zehavi, Idit ^b   Loveday, Jon ^f  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Methods: observational; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043233566     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344761     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Becker, R. H., White, R. L., &Helfand, D. J. 1995, ApJ, 450, 559
2. Cole, S., Hatten, S., Weinberg, D. H., &Frenk, C. S. 1998, MNRAS, 300, 945
3. Eisenstein, D. J., et al. 2001, AJ, 122, 2267
4. Goldberg, A. V. 1997, J. Algorithms, 22, 1
5. Gunn, J. E., et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 3040
6. Hardin, R. H., Sloane, N. J. A., &Smith, W. D. 2001, Tables of Spherical Codes with Icosahedral Symmetry (Florham Park: AT&T Shannon Lab.)
7. Lupton, R. H., Maley, F. M., &Young, N. 1998, J. Algorithms, 27, 339
8. Megiddo, N., &Supowit, K. J. 1984, SIAM J. Comput., 13, 182
9. Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., &Flannery, B. P. 1992, Numerical Recipes in C (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
10. Richards, G., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2945
11. Stoughton, C., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 485
12. Strauss, M. A., et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 1810
13. Uomoto, A., et al. 2001, in preparation
14. Voges, W., et al. 1999, A&A, 349, 389
15. York, D., et al. 2000, AJ, 120, 1579