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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:

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/
PrefixExample  
LAMOSTLAMOST J12280490-014825.7 
LIDLID 607005ID number

Referenced by page:
Schmidt camera

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