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The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey | | Stephen Smee
; James E. Gunn
; Alan Uomoto
; Natalie Roe
; David Schlegel
; Constance M. Rockosi
; Michael A. Carr
; French Leger
; Kyle S. Dawson
; Matthew D. Olmstead
; Jon Brinkmann
; Russell Owen
; Robert H. Barkhouser
; Klaus Honscheid
; Paul Harding
; Dan Long
; Robert H. Lupton
; Craig Loomis
; Lauren Anderson
; James Annis
; Mariangela Bernardi
; Vaishali Bhardwaj
; Dmitry Bizyaev
; Adam S. Bolton
; Howard Brewington
; John W. Briggs
; Scott Burles
; James G. Burns
; Francisco Castander
; Andrew Connolly
; James R. Davenport
; Garrett Ebelke
; Harland Epps
; Paul D. Feldman
; Scott Friedman
; Joshua Frieman
; Timothy Heckman
; Charles L. Hull
; Gillian R. Knapp
; David M. Lawrence
; Jon Loveday
; Edward J. Mannery
; Elena Malanushenko
; Viktor Malanushenko
; Aronne Merrelli
; Demitri Muna
; Peter Newman
; Robert C. Nichol
; Daniel Oravetz
; Kaike Pan
; Adrian C. Pope
; Paul G. Ricketts
; Alaina Shelden
; Dale Sandford
; Walter Siegmund
; Audrey Simmons
; D. Smith
; Stephanie Snedden
; Donald P. Schneider
; Michael Strauss
; Mark SubbaRao
; Christy Tremonti
; Patrick Waddell
; Donald G. York
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10 Aug 2012 | | Abstract: | We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs
for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Originally commissioned in Fall 1999
on the 2.5-m aperture Sloan Telescope at Apache Point Observatory, the
spectrographs produced more than 1.5 million spectra for the SDSS and SDSS-II
surveys, enabling a wide variety of Galactic and extra-galactic science
including the first observation of baryon acoustic oscillations in 2005. The
spectrographs were upgraded in 2009 and are currently in use for BOSS, the
flagship survey of the third-generation SDSS-III project. BOSS will measure
redshifts of 1.35 million massive galaxies to redshift 0.7 and Lyman-$alpha$
absorption of 160,000 high redshift quasars over 10,000 square degrees of sky,
making percent level measurements of the absolute cosmic distance scale of the
Universe and placing tight constraints on the equation of state of dark energy.
The twin multi-object fiber spectrographs utilize a simple optical layout
with reflective collimators, all-refractive cameras, gratings, and
state-of-the-art CCD detectors to produce hundreds of spectra simultaneously in
two channels over a bandpass covering the near ultraviolet to the near
infrared, with a resolving power R = lambda/FWHM ~ 2000. Building on proven
heritage, the spectrographs were upgraded for BOSS with volume-phase
holographic gratings and modern CCD detectors, improving the peak throughput by
nearly a factor of two, extending the bandpass to cover 360 < lambda < 1000
nm, and increasing the number of fibers from 640 to 1000 per exposure. In this
paper we describe the original SDSS spectrograph design and the upgrades
implemented for BOSS, and document the predicted and measured performances. | | Source: | arXiv, 1208.2233 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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