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An Efficient Targeting Strategy for Multiobject Spectrograph Surveys: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey "Tiling" Algorithm

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:34 authored by Michael R. Blanton, Huan Lin, Robert H. Lupton, F. Miller Maley, Neal Young, Idit Zehavi, Jonathan LovedayJonathan Loveday
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  • Published

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Astronomical Journal

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0004-6256

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American Astronomical Society

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4

Volume

125

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2276-2286

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11.0

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  • Physics and Astronomy Publications

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We present a method of determining an optimum set of telescope pointings and fibre allocations when carrying out SDSS multiobject spectroscopy, a method also applicable to future surveys. Loveday wrote the original C version of the tiling code. This paper has accrued over 200 citations.

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2012-02-06

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