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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Status and Prospects

arXiv:astro-ph/9605028

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to definitively map $π$ steradians of the local Universe. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will digitally image the sky in five passbands to a limiting magnitude of $r' \sim 23$. Selected from the imaging survey, $10^6$ galaxies and $10^5$ quasars will be observed spectroscopically. I describe the current status of the survey, which is due to begin observations early in 1997, and its prospects for constraining models for dark matter in the Universe.

Invited talk given at the XXXIst Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, January 1996. 10 pages, LaTex plus postscript figures