The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera
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We have constructed a large-format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array that uses 30 2048 × 2048 SITe/Tektronix CCDs (24 μm pixels) with an effective imaging area of 720 cm 2 and an astrometric array that uses 24 400 × 2048 CCDs with the same pixel size, which will allow us to tie bright astrometric standard stars to the objects imaged in the photometric camera. The instrument will be used to carry out photometry essentially simultaneously in five color bands spanning the range accessible to silicon detectors on the ground in the time-delay–and–integrate (TDI) scanning mode. The photometric detectors are arrayed in the focal plane in six columns of five chips each such that two scans cover a filled stripe 2 5 wide. This paper presents engineering and technical details of the camera.
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SDSS has an effective étendue of only 5.9 m2 deg2.
“For example, the SDSS, with its 2.5 m telescope ( Gunn et al. 2006 ) and a camera with 30 imaging CCDs ( Gunn et al. 1998 ) , has an effective étendue of only 5.9 m 2 deg 2 .”
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- Gunn, J. E., Carr, M., Rockosi, C., Sekiguchi, M., Berry, K., Elms, B., de Haas, E., Ivezić, Ž., Knapp, G., Lupton, R., Pauls, G., Simcoe, R., Hirsch, R., Sanford, D., Wang, S., York, D., Harris, F., Annis, J., Bartozek, L., Boroski, W., Bakken, J., Haldeman, M., Kent, S., Holm, S., Holmgren, D., Petravick, D., Prosapio, A., Rechenmacher, R., Doi, M., Fukugita, M., Shimasaku, K., Okada, N., Hull, C., Siegmund, W., Mannery, E., Blouke, M., Heidtman, D., Schneider, D., Lucinio, R., & Brinkman, J.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- United States Naval Observatory (US)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Institute for Advanced Study (US)
- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (JP)
- University of Washington (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Astronomical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3040-3081
- ISSN
- 0004-6256 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978875836
- Cited by
- 1,692
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- FWCI
- 66.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Astronomical Journal (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Princeton University
- University of Washington
- Johns Hopkins University
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- U.S. Naval Observatory
- Fermilab
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
- Keywords
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astrometric calibration, photometric standard stars, multi-band photometry
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