SDSS photometry: instrumentation and technical aspects

30-Aug-99


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Table of Contents

Outline
Optics requirements
Optics design - I
Optics design - II
Focal plane
Camera - I
Camera - II
Scanning strips
Camera - detail
Camera - picture I
Quantum efficiency curve
Linear/saturation test
Structural requirement, dewar, corrector
Layout diagram
Construction detail
Camera - picture II
Cooling system, electronics, astrometric camera
Electronics layout
Signal chain
Construction - picture
Photometric system
Passbands
AB system flux standard
Vega and F sub-dwarf calibrations
Photometric (monitor) telescope
Calibration stars - I
Calibration stars - II
Calibration chain
g-r vs B-V
Software - photometric pipelines
Software design - I
Detection rate vs magnitude
Nbad=4
Image recovery - I
Image recovery - II
Intensity vs radius
Software design - II
Centroiding
Photometric errors with aperture
Petrosian magnitudes
Petrosian radius vs redshift
Exponential disk - failure rate
Errors in c-eta plane
Performance and science
mfiber-mpsf vs mpetrosian

Author: Masataka Fukugita

Email: fukugita@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp