The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
BLACK BOOK

Proposal to NASA by the SDSS collaboration

Principal Investigator: Don York
Editors: Jill Knapp, Jim Gunn, Bruce Margon, Robert Lupton, and Michael Strauss

Index

  • Introduction
  • Support of NASA Programs
  • Science
  • Current Status of the SDSS
  • Survey Strategy
  • The Telescope
  • The Site
  • The Photometric Camera
  • Photometric Calibration
  • Astrometry
  • Spectroscopy
  • Adaptive Tiling
  • Simulations
  • Datasystems
  • Survey Operations
  • Survey Management
  • Appendix: Current Surveys
  • Appendix: A Stellar Catalogue
  • Appendix: Requirements for Data Management
  • Appendix: The Science Archive
  • Participating Institutions
    • © Copyright 1997, The Astrophysical Research Consortium