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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is now well underway and some data have already been released to the public. The Survey’s main goal is to scan approximately 10,000 sq. degrees in the Northern Galactic Cap and to measure the redshifts of roughly a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars. The Survey consists of two parts: a photometric imaging survey which images the sky in 5 passbands (u’, g’, r’, i’, and z’) whose main goal is to separate the contaminating stars from the interesting galaxies, and a followup spectroscopic survey of the interesting objects found in the photometric survey.
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Kleinman, S.J., Takato, T., Nitta, A., Krzesinski, J. (2003). White Dwarf Stars in the Sloan Digital SKY Survey: Photometry. In: de Martino, D., Silvotti, R., Solheim, JE., Kalytis, R. (eds) White Dwarfs. NATO Science Series, vol 105. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0215-8_120
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