The Sloan Digital Sky Survey started routine observing in 2000, and since then has gone through four generations of surveys. The current generation is the Fifth Generation of Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS-V), and the data of its mapper programs can be found in Data Release 18. The following is a list of all the […]
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DR18 Imaging
The SDSS imaging camera took its first science quality data the night of September 19, 1998, and was the world’s most productive wide-field imaging facility until its last night of science quality data on November 18, 2009. In between it took a total of around 35,000 square degrees of images, covering a unique footprint of […]
DR18 Data Access Overview
Data Products DR18 contains SDSS-V targeting catalogs, prepared for the Black Hole Mapper and Milky Way Mapper science programs, as well as for open fiber programs. Collectively all these programs are know as MOS (multi-object spectroscopy) programs. These target catalogs use several imaging and spectroscopic surveys as input, including optical and infrared data taken with […]
Data Release 18
DR18 is the first data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR18 data release paper Almeida et al. (2023). DR18 includes the following: Access to the DR18 data products is described on this page, while the Black Hole Mapper and Milky […]
Contact Us
For questions about using the data, please consult the latest Data Release’s help page, and if necessary the help desk contact listed there. Questions about this web site should be directed to webmaster@sdss.org. Contacting SDSS-V For more information about the SDSS-V collaboration, please contact: Director Juna KollmeierCarnegie Observatoriessdss5-director@sdss.org Scientific Spokesperson Emily GriffithUniversity of Colorado Bouldersdss5-spokesperson@sdss.org Education and […]
How to Cite SDSS
Acknowledging and Citing SDSS We request that the following acknowledgement be included in any paper using data or software from SDSS-V: Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from […]
COINS
The Committee On INclusiveness in SDSS (COINS) was formed to address issues having to do with inclusion in the survey. Our broad goals are to assess the SDSS project and collaboration’s climate and demographics, to recommend to the collaboration management new policies or practices with regard to increasing inclusiveness, and to assist in the implementation […]
Collaboration
SDSS is operated by an international collaboration of hundreds of scientists at numerous institutions around the globe. The scientific achievements of SDSS are enabled by the technical capabilities, financial contributions, and above all, the collective scientific expertise and enthusiasm of this vibrant collaboration. The active operational phase of the project is SDSS-V, which began collecting […]
SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
SDSS-V is the first facility providing multi-epoch optical & IR spectroscopy across the entire sky, as well as offering contiguous integral-field spectroscopic coverage of the Milky Way and Local Volume galaxies. This panoptic spectroscopic survey continues the strong SDSS legacy of innovative data and collaboration infrastructure. NEW: Our latest data release, DR20, is now live! […]
Serving up the Universe on a plate
They may not look like much — just metal disks 80 centimeters (30 inches) across with some etched markings and hundreds of small holes — but round aluminum “plates” like this one from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have been vital to mapping our universe for more than 20 years.