Algorithms Overview
This page contains detailed information about the algorithms used to process the imaging and spectroscopic data used in SDSS, SDSS-III and SDSS-IV.
Survey-wide
Important considerations that affect all forms of SDSS data
Software
Software to view and process SDSS data
Images
Algorithms that process SDSS images
Target Selection
Algorithms that define how various spectroscopic programs of the SDSS select objects for spectroscopic follow-up
Optical Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process optical spectra
Infrared Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process SDSS-III APOGEE infrared spectroscopic data and associated catalogs
Integral-Field Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process SDSS-IV MaNGA optical integral-field spectroscopy
Interferometry Spectroscopy
A beginners guide to MARVELS data and a description of pipeline algorithms.
Image Catalogs
Algorithms that create the imaging catalog data
Catalog Data Algorithms
Photometric processing flags
- Recommendations
- Summary of flags
- Photometric flags detail
- Full flag details (link to Lupton’s page)