SDSS 21hr May06

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The SDSS observations for May 2006 are basically meant to fill a hole in the nights at LST of about 19hr. They will provide redshifts down to about r of 22, so will be good for photometric redshift calibration. Ideally, we would have liked to target off of coadded catalogs, but time constraints prevented us from doing so.

The priorities are:

  1. SDSS_CALIB (104): SDSS F stars (~ 80)
  2. SDSS_AGN (204): Richards et al (2004) photometric QSOs with g < 21 (and i > 19) from their DR3 catalog) (~ 10)
  3. SDSS_FAINT_STAR, SDSS_GALAXY (304): Sparse-sampled (as 0.7 / N for N > 1) galaxies and 50% of the faint (r > 21) stars from SDSS (~ 1500)
  4. SDSS_FILL (404): Remainder of the set of SDSS faint stars and galaxies

There are typically 2200 targets per mask total.

The designs for the May 2006 run are at

http://sdss.physics.nyu.edu/primus/design/sdss_21hr/masks/may06