Scott's SDSS links

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A wide variety of web information on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is available, and most sites are interlinked (although some have restricted access). A few especially useful links are provided below. The 3rd link is to the SDSS-II (SDSS extension) proposal to NSF.

General Information and News (project news and information site; suitable for the general public, as well as astronomers and other scientists).

SDSS Project Book (thorough and readable higher level overview of entire SDSS project).

SDSS-II NSF Proposal (links to through and readable higher level overview of SDSS-II extension project).

Rights and Responsibilities (the SDSS rules, including the Principles of Operation, the Publication Policy, and rules governing collaboration with students, postdocs, and folks at non-SDSS institutions.)

Email Archive (archive of email sent to various SDSS exploders, including those of various science Working Groups).

Publications Index (SDSS papers in progress or submitted).

Projects Index (SDSS projects).

Proposals Index (SDSS pending/accepted proposals to funding agencies).

STScI MAST (STScI interface with access to some public SDSS data).

o Data and software at UW (for those at University of Washington analyzing large SDSS data sets).

Fermilab SDSS Home Page (intended mainly for scientists involved in the project).

Johns Hopkins SDSS Home Page (includes info on Science Archive).

Princeton SDSS Information and Document Archive (includes email/document archives)

Technical documentation, e.g., Univ. of Wash. Engineering reports (technical info on 2.5m, IR sky camera, plug plates, fibers, etc.)

NOTE: SOME SDSS DATA ARE PROPRIETARY, AND THIS NECESSITATES A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF AND ADHERENCE TO THE (MANY) PROJECT-SPECIFIC RULES; see especially link above to Rights and Responsibilities.