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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2019★ 323 cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Spectrographs

J. C. Wilson, F. R. Hearty, M. F. Skrutskie +86

We describe the design and performance of the near-infrared (1.51--1.70 micron), fiber-fed, multi-object (300 fibers), high resolution (R = lambda/delta lambda ~ 22,500) spectrogra…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 49 cited

MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system

Katie M. Morzinski, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males +19

MagAO is the new adaptive optics system with visible-light and infrared science cameras, located on the 6.5-m Magellan "Clay" telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The inst…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 94 cited

Diffraction-limited Visible Light Images of Orion Trapezium Cluster With the Magellan Adaptive Secondary AO System (MagAO)

L. M. Close, J. R. Males, K. Morzinski +13

We utilized the new high-order (250-378 mode) Magellan Adaptive Optics system (MagAO) to obtain very high spatial resolution observations in "visible light" with MagAO's VisAO CCD…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.1k cited

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61

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 Sur…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 23 cited

Element Distributions In The Crab Nebula

T. J. Satterfield, A. M. Katz, A. R. Sibley +2

Images of the Crab Nebula have been obtained through custom interference filters which transmit emission from the expanding supernova remnant in HI, HeI, HeII, [CI], [NII], [OI], […

astro-ph.GA2009★ 205 cited

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: III. Stellar Kinematics

N. A. Bond, Z. Ivezic, B. Sesar +2

We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r<20 and proper-motion measurements derived from SDSS and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000…