• DOI:10.1117/12.541394
• Corpus ID: 119434705

Mass-producing spectra: the SDSS spectrographic system

@inproceedings{Newman2004MassproducingST,
  title={Mass-producing spectra: the SDSS spectrographic system},
  author={P. R. Newman and Daniel C. Long and Stephanie A. Snedden and Scott J. Kleinman and Atsuko Nitta and Michael Harvanek and Jurek Krzesinski and Howard J. Brewington and John C. Barentine and Eric H. Neilsen and David J. Schlegel},
  booktitle={SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation},
  year={2004}
}

• P. Newman, D. Long, +8 authors D. Schlegel
• Published in
  SPIE Astronomical Telescopes…
  9 August 2004
• Physics

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.