The Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Data Processing and Products
22-Oct-99
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Table of Contents
Title
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Scientific Motivation
Cosmology Primer
The `Naught' Problem
The Cosmic Genome Project
Area and Size of Redshift Surveys
Clustering of Galaxies
Relevant Scales
The Topology of Local Universe
Finding the Most Distant Objects
Features of the SDSS
Apache Point Observatory
The Telescope
The Photometric Survey
The Footprint of the Survey
Survey Strategy
The Spectroscopic Survey
Optimal Tiling
The Mosaic Camera
Photometric Calibrations
The Spectrographs
The Fiber Feed System
Spectrograph Status
JHU Contributions
First Light Images
The First Stripes
NGC 2068
UGC 3214
NGC 6070
The First Quasars
SDSS Data Flow
Data Processing Pipelines
Concept of the SDSS Archive
SDSS Data Products
Who will be using the archive?
How will the data be analyzed?
Geometric Approach
Organization of Searches
Geometric Indexing
Sky coordinates
Sky Partitioning
Hierarchical Subdivision
Result of the Query
Magnitudes and Multicolor Searches
Novel Magnitude Scale
Flux Indexing
How to build compact cells?
Coarse Grained Design
Distributed Implementation
Exploring new methods
Photometric redshifts
Spectra from Photometry
Measuring P(k)
The SDSS Science Archive
Future of Archives
The Age of Mega-Surveys
Summary
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Author:
Alex Szalay
Email:
szalay@tardis.pha.jhu.edu