@article {28103, title = {The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary}, journal = {The Astronomical Journal}, volume = {120}, year = {2000}, note = {n/a}, month = {September 1, 200}, pages = {1579-1587}, abstract = {The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to supportdetailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminousmatter in the universe: a photometrically and astrometrically calibrateddigital imaging survey of π sr above about Galactic latitude 30{\textdegree}in five broad optical bands to a depth of g{\textquoteright}~23 mag, and a spectroscopicsurvey of the approximately 106 brightest galaxies and105 brightest quasars found in the photometric object catalogproduced by the imaging survey. This paper summarizes the observationalparameters and data products of the SDSS and serves as an introductionto extensive technical on-line documentation. }, url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000AJ....120.1579Y}, author = {York, Donald G. and Adelman, J. and Anderson, John E., Jr. and Anderson, Scott F. and Annis, James and Bahcall, Neta A. and Bakken, J. A. and Barkhouser, Robert and Bastian, Steven and Berman, Eileen and Boroski, William N. and Bracker, Steve and Briegel, Charlie and Briggs, John W. and Brinkmann, J. and Brunner, Robert and Burles, Scott and Carey, Larry and Carr, Michael A. and Castander, Francisco J. and Chen, Bing and Colestock, Patrick L. and Connolly, A. J. and Crocker, J. H. and Csabai, Istv{\'a}n and Czarapata, Paul C. and Davis, John Eric and Doi, Mamoru and Dombeck, Tom and Eisenstein, Daniel and Ellman, Nancy and Elms, Brian R. and Evans, Michael L. and Fan, Xiaohui and Federwitz, Glenn R. and Fiscelli, Larry and Friedman, Scott and Frieman, Joshua A. and Fukugita, Masataka and Gillespie, Bruce and Gunn, James E. and Gurbani, Vijay K. and de Haas, Ernst and Haldeman, Merle and Harris, Frederick H. and Hayes, J. and Heckman, Timothy M. and Hennessy, G. S. and Hindsley, Robert B. and Holm, Scott and Holmgren, Donald J. and Huang, Chi-hao and Hull, Charles and Husby, Don and Ichikawa, Shin-ichi and Ichikawa, Takashi and Ivezi{\'c}, {\v Z}eljko and Kent, Stephen and Kim, Rita S. J. and Kinney, E. and Klaene, Mark and Kleinman, A. N. and Kleinman, S. and Knapp, G. R. and Korienek, John and Kron, Richard G. and Kunszt, Peter Z. and Lamb, D. Q. and Lee, B. and Leger, R. French and Limmongkol, Siriluk and Lindenmeyer, Carl and Long, Daniel C. and Loomis, Craig and Loveday, Jon and Lucinio, Rich and Lupton, Robert H. and MacKinnon, Bryan and Mannery, Edward J. and Mantsch, P. M. and Margon, Bruce and McGehee, Peregrine and McKay, Timothy A. and Meiksin, Avery and Merelli, Aronne and Monet, David G. and Munn, Jeffrey A. and Narayanan, Vijay K. and Nash, Thomas and Neilsen, Eric and Neswold, Rich and Newberg, Heidi Jo and Nichol, R. C. and Nicinski, Tom and Nonino, Mario and Okada, Norio and Okamura, Sadanori and Ostriker, Jeremiah P. and Owen, Russell and Pauls, A. George and Peoples, John and Peterson, R. L. and Petravick, Donald and Pier, Jeffrey R. and Pope, Adrian and Pordes, Ruth and Prosapio, Angela and Rechenmacher, Ron and Quinn, Thomas R. and Richards, Gordon T. and Richmond, Michael W. and Rivetta, Claudio H. and Rockosi, Constance M. and Ruthmansdorfer, Kurt and Sandford, Dale and Schlegel, David J. and Schneider, Donald P. and Sekiguchi, Maki and Sergey, Gary and Shimasaku, Kazuhiro and Siegmund, Walter A. and Smee, Stephen and Smith, J. Allyn and Snedden, S. and Stone, R. and Stoughton, Chris and Strauss, Michael A. and Stubbs, Christopher and SubbaRao, Mark and Szalay, Alexander S. and Szapudi, Istvan and Szokoly, Gyula P. and Thakar, Anirudda R. and Tremonti, Christy and Tucker, Douglas L. and Uomoto, Alan and Vanden Berk, Dan and Vogeley, Michael S. and Waddell, Patrick and Wang, Shu-i. and Watanabe, Masaru and Weinberg, David H. and Yanny, Brian and Yasuda, Naoki and {SDSS Collaboration}} }