LAMOST News

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a national big science project of China, just received its official blessing and ready for full formal run on June. 4th, 2009

Lu Yongxiang, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with other high rank officials, inspected the LAMOST project in progress in the Xinglong Station of National Astronomical Observatories on July 27th, 2007.

The first LAMOST Data Policy (V1 draft) is release in Chinese today. Please send your comments and suggestions to: jjchen@lamost.org

Full text is available at:
http://www.lamost.org/lamost/documents/LAMOST_data_policy_v1.doc

At 3 clock of Jun. 18, the small system of LAMOST (250 fibers, 1 spectrograph, and 2 CCD cameras) observed 123 spectra simultaneously. At that time, it was cloudy and the atmospheric transparence was below average. Exposure time was 30 minutes.

Hi,all,

The attached are early spectra from LAMOST. There are 18 spectra in the files(in the red wavelength region). Most of the stars are late-type ones but also with a couple of early-types,after spectral classification. Just to enjoy it.

SHI Huoming

Further 18 stellar spectra

Two pieces of spectra are available here:

Daytime sky light spectrum in blue end

Stellar fiber spectrum in red end

LAMOST got its first piece of spectrum on May 28 as following

We have constructed a large set of mock galaxy redshift surveys that have the same selection function as the Data Release Four (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The mock surveys are based on two sets of semi-analytic catalogues presented by Croton et al. (2006) and Kang et al. (2005). The aim of the project is twofold: 1) to see how well the current galaxy formation models can reproduce the observed properties of the clustering and pairwise velocities of galaxies, and 2) to see how galaxy clustering and velocity statistics depend on different theoretical models.