Mass-producing spectra: The SDSS spectrographic system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 533-544

  Newman, Peter R ^a   Long, Dan C ^a   Snedden, Stephanie A ^a   Kleinman, S J ^a   Nitta, Atsuko ^a   Harvanek, Michael ^a   Krzesinski, Jurek ^a,b   Brewington, Howard J ^a   Barentine, J C ^a   Neilsen Jr , Eric H ^a,c   Schlegel, David J ^d  

^a APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient observing operation systems; Multi object spectroscopy; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; GALAXIES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RECORDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYS; TELESCOPES;

EFFICIENT OBSERVING OPERATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-OBJECT FIBER SPECTROGRAPHS; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY (SDSS);

SPECTROGRAPHS;

EID: 10444233521     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.541394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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