Repository details

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Name of repository
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Additional name(s)
  • SDSS
Repository URL
https://www.sdss.org/
Subject(s)
Description
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one of the most ambitious and influential surveys in the history of astronomy. Over eight years of operations (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008; SDSS-III 2008-2014; SDSS-IV 2013 ongoing), it obtained deep, multi-color images covering more than a quarter of the sky and created 3-dimensional maps containing more than 930,000 galaxies and more than 120,000 quasars. DSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) / University of Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), National Astronomical Observatory of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository size
35.000 square degrees of imaging, covering a unique footprint of 14,055 square degrees of sky.
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.sdss.org/collaboration/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:052csg198
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Apache Point Observatory
Additional name(s)
  • APO
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
National Science Foundation
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:021nxhr62
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
SDSS Collaboration
Contact(s)
  • spokesperson@sdss.org
Country
International
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. Department of Energy
Additional name(s)
  • DOE
  • Energy.ov
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:01bj3aw27
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
University of Utah, Center for High Performance Computing
Additional name(s)
  • CHPC
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (3)

Policy Name
Principles of Operation
Policy Name
Image use policy
Policy Name
Publication policy

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (2)

Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • other

Data licenses (3)

DataLicense
other
DataLicense
CC
DataLicense
CC0

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://www.sdss.org/collaboration/citing-sdss/
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
unknown

Remarks

Remarks
SDSS is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. A list of participating institution can be found on https://www.sdss.org/collaboration/affiliations/
Entry date
2013-08-06
Last update
2023-08-30
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re3data.org: Sloan Digital Sky Survey; editing status 2023-08-30; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3PC8T last accessed: 2024-04-20