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SDSS data products

Data products overview

General information about DR1

DR1 and its relation to other data releases. Overview of data quality. There is a separate survey coverage page.

Images - using SDSS as your telescope

Describes imaging frames, how to get them and related files from the survey archive, and how to work with them.

Object lists - using SDSS as your photometric catalog

Describes calibrated object lists, how to get them and related files from the archive, and how to work with them.

Spectra - using SDSS as your spectrograph

Describes calibrated spectra, how to get them and related files from the archive, and how to work with them.

Tiling - using SDSS as your complete survey

"Tiling" means maximising the uniformity of the spectroscopic survey. This section describes the tiling files, how to get them and related files from the archive, and how to characterise the survey's non-uniformity using them.

Value Added Data Products

The SDSS collaboration has created catalogs and other data products based on DR1 data that are of general use.

Data model

The flat-file data model contains detailed descriptions of all data generated by the data processing. We are working on a more user-friendly form.
SDSS Webmaster Last modified: Mon Jun 2 2003