Acknowledging and Citing SDSS We request that the following acknowledgement be included in any paper using data or software from SDSS-V (to cite data from SDSS-IV, use the SDSS-IV acknowledgement instead): 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, […]
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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. Data Our latest data release, DR18 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. “The light passing through […]