The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1579-1587

  York, Donald G ^a   Adelman, J ^b   Anderson Jr , John E ^b   Anderson, Scott F ^c   Annis, James ^b   Bahcall, Neta A ^d   Bakken, J A ^b   Barkhouser, Robert ^e   Bastian, Steven ^b   Berman, Eileen ^b   Boroski, William N ^b   Bracker, Steve ^b   Briegel, Charlie ^b   Briggs, John W ^f   Brinkmann, J ^g   Brunner, Robert ^h   Burles, Scott ^a   Carey, Larry ^c   Carr, Michael A ^d   Castander, Francisco J ^a,i   Chen, Bing ^e   Colestock, Patrick L ^b   Connolly, A J ^j   Crocker, J H ^e   Csabai, István ^e,k   Czarapata, Paul C ^b   Davis, John Eric ^g   Doi, Mamoru ^l   Dombeck, Tom ^a   Eisenstein, Daniel ^a,m,n   Ellman, Nancy ^o   Elms, Brian R ^d,p   Evans, Michael L ^c   Fan, Xiaohui ^d   Federwitz, Glenn R ^b   Fiscelli, Larry ^a   Friedman, Scott ^e   Frieman, Joshua A ^a,b   Fukugita, Masataka ^m,q   Gillespie, Bruce ^g   Gunn, James E ^d   Gurbani, Vijay K ^b   De Haas, Ernst ^d   Haldeman, Merle ^b   Harris, Frederick H ^r   Hayes, J ^g   Heckman, Timothy M ^e   Hennessy, G S ^s   Hindsley, Robert B ^t   Holm, Scott ^b   Holmgren, Donald J ^b   Huang, Chi Hao ^b   Hull, Charles ^u   Husby, Don ^b   Ichikawa, Shin Ichi ^p   Ichikawa, Takashi ^v   Ivezić, Zěljko ^d   Kent, Stephen ^b   Kim, Rita S J ^d   Kinney, E ^g   Klaene, Mark ^g   Kleinman, A N ^g   Kleinman, S ^g   Knapp, G R ^d   Korienek, John ^b   Kron, Richard G ^a,b   Kunszt, Peter Z ^e   Lamb, D Q ^a   Lee, B ^b   Leger, R French ^c   Limmongkol, Siriluk ^c   Lindenmeyer, Carl ^b   Long, Daniel C ^g   Loomis, Craig ^g   Loveday, Jon ^a   Lucinio, Rich ^g   Lupton, Robert H ^d   Mackinnon, Bryan ^b,w   Mannery, Edward J ^c   Mantsch, P M ^b   Margon, Bruce ^c   Mcgehee, Peregrine ^x   Mckay, Timothy A ^y   Meiksin, Avery ^z   Merelli, Aronne ^aa   Monet, David G ^r   Munn, Jeffrey A ^r   Narayanan, Vijay K ^d   Nash, Thomas ^b   Neilsen, Eric ^e   Neswold, Rich ^b   Newberg, Heidi Jo ^b,ab   Nichol, R C ^aa   Nicinski, Tom ^b,ac   Nonino, Mario ^ad   Okada, Norio ^p   Okamura, Sadanori ^l   Ostriker, Jeremiah P ^d   Owen, Russell ^c   Pauls, A George ^d   Peoples, John ^b   Peterson, R L ^b   Petravick, Donald ^b   Pier, Jeffrey R ^r   Pope, Adrian ^aa   Pordes, Ruth ^b   Prosapio, Angela ^b   Rechenmacher, Ron ^b   Quinn, Thomas R ^c   Richards, Gordon T ^a   Richmond, Michael W ^ae   Rivetta, Claudio H ^b   Rockosi, Constance M ^a   Ruthmansdorfer, Kurt ^b   Sandford, Dale ^f   Schlegel, David J ^d   Schneider, Donald P ^af   Sekiguchi, Maki ^q   Sergey, Gary ^b   Shimasaku, Kazuhiro ^l   Siegmund, Walter A ^c   Smee, Stephen ^e   Smith, J Allyn ^y   Snedden, S ^g   Stone, R ^r   Stoughton, Chris ^b   Strauss, Michael A ^d   Stubbs, Christopher ^c   Subbarao, Mark ^a   Szalay, Alexander S ^e   Szapudi, Istvan ^ag   Szokoly, Gyula P ^e   Thakar, Anirudda R ^e   Tremonti, Christy ^e   Tucker, Douglas L ^b   Uomoto, Alan ^e   Vanden Berk, Dan ^b   Vogeley, Michael S ^ah   Waddell, Patrick ^c   Wang, Shu I ^a   Watanabe, Masaru ^ai   Weinberg, David H ^aj   Yanny, Brian ^b   Yasuda, Naoki ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Chicago   (United States)

^g APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^k EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^m INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

ⁿ Yale University ^*  (United States)

^o Yale University   (United States)

^p NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^r FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^s US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^t NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^u CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^v TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^w Merrill Lynch   (Japan)

^x LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^z UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^aa CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^ac NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^ad INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^ae ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^af PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ah DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ai JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^aj OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmology: Observations; Instrumentation: Miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873416005     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301513     Document Type: Review

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