LAMOST
(Large Sky Area Multi-object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, Guo Shoujing Telescope)
(Chinese telescope for spectroscopic surveys of stars and galaxies)
LAMOST
(Large Sky Area Multi-object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope
or Guo Shoujing Telescope)
is a 4/6 meter (non-circular) Schmidt reflector telescope
(a variant on a Schmidt camera)
for spectroscopy of galaxies and Milky Way stars.
It focuses on a focal plane of 1.75 meter diameter, to the ends of
4000 repositionable fibers leading to spectrographs.
It began service in 2008, aimed at a five-year surveying project,
(the LAMOST Survey) organized as two sub-surveys:
- LEGUE, for LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Evolution.
- LEGAS, for LAMOST Extragalactic Survey.
Data releases based upon the five years of data are termed LAMOST DR5:
there are several versions, I presume with processing improvements.
(telescope,reflector,ground,China)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMOST
http://www.lamost.org/
http://english.nao.cas.cn/Research2015/Facilities2015/Telescopes2015/201701/t20170120_173586.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012RAA....12..723Z/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012RAA....12..735D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012RAA....12.1197C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..240....6Y/abstract
https://dr5.lamost.org/
Prefix | Example | | |
LAMOST | LAMOST J12280490-014825.7 | | |
LID | LID 607005 | ID number | |
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Referenced by page:
Schmidt camera
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