Data acquisition systems for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Don Petravick; Eileen Berman; Bryan Mackinnon; Thomas Nicinski; Ruth Pordes; Gary Sergey; Ron Rechenmacher; James T. Annis; Steven M. Kent; Timothy McKay; Christopher Stoughton; D. Husby

doi:10.1117/12.176788

1 June 1994 Data acquisition systems for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Don Petravick, Eileen Berman, Bryan Mackinnon, Thomas Nicinski, Ruth Pordes, Gary Sergey, Ron Rechenmacher, James T. Annis, Steven M. Kent, Timothy McKay, Christopher Stoughton, D. Husby

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Proceedings Volume 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176788
Event: 1994 Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation for the 21st Century, 1994, Kailua, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will image (Pi) steradians about the north galactic cap in five filters, and acquire one million spectra using a dedicated 2.5 m telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. We describe the data acquisition system for the survey's three main detectors: an imaging camera, mounting 54 Tektronix charge-coupled devices (CCD); a pair of spectrographs, each mounting a pair of CCDs; and a smaller monitor telescope camera. We describe the system's hardware and software architecture, and relate it to the survey's special requirements for high reliability and need to understand its instrumentation in order to produce a consistent survey over a five year period.

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Don Petravick, Eileen Berman, Bryan Mackinnon, Thomas Nicinski, Ruth Pordes, Gary Sergey, Ron Rechenmacher, James T. Annis, Steven M. Kent, Timothy McKay, Christopher Stoughton, and D. Husby "Data acquisition systems for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", Proc. SPIE 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII, (1 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.176788

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