Mass-producing spectra: the SDSS spectrographic system

Peter R. Newman; Dan C. Long; Stephanie A. Snedden; S. J. Kleinman; Atsuko Nitta; Michael Harvanek; Jurek Krzesinski; Howard J. Brewington; J. C. Barentine; Eric H. Neilsen Jr.; David J. Schlegel

doi:10.1117/12.541394

30 September 2004 Mass-producing spectra: the SDSS spectrographic system

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

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Proceedings Volume 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541394
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the largest redshift survey conducted to date, and the principal survey observations have all been conducted on the dedicated SDSS 2.5m and 0.5m telescopes at Apache Point Observatory. While the whole survey has many unique features, this article concentrates on a description of the systems surrounding the dual fibre-input spectrographs that obtain all the survey spectra and that are capable of recording 5,760 individual spectra per night on an industrial, consistent, mass-production basis. It is hoped that the successes and lessons learned will prove instructive for future large spectrographic surveys.

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Peter R. Newman, Dan C. Long, Stephanie A. Snedden, S. J. Kleinman, Atsuko Nitta, Michael Harvanek, Jurek Krzesinski, Howard J. Brewington, J. C. Barentine, Eric H. Neilsen Jr., and David J. Schlegel "Mass-producing spectra: the SDSS spectrographic system", Proc. SPIE 5492, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, (30 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.541394

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