Jim Gunn from Princeton – one of the founders of the Sloan – is presenting the final conference summary. A large part of the design was influenced by the impact of people coming into astronomy from other parts of physics, doing things in the x-ray, the radio and the infrared and who were used to [...]
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Another report from the SDSS conference is up on the Discovery blog, but I wanted to write about the penultimate talk, describing the next stage for the survey.
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Sloan has been through two phases of operation already, and now SDSS-III is about to start, incorporating four separate surveys, each with a different mission. The first, [...]