The SDSS SkyServer, Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data

2001/11/07 by Alexander Szalay, Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray +16
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #Databases (cs.DB) #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.2.8 #H.3.5 #H.4 #J.2 #cs.DB #cs.DL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0111015

submitted for publication, original at http://research.microsoft.com/scripts/pubs/view.asp?TR_ID=MSR-TR-2001-104

arxiv created 2001/11/07 · openalex publication_date 2001/11/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

The SkyServer provides Internet access to the public Sloan Digi-tal Sky Survey (SDSS) data for both astronomers and for science education. This paper describes the SkyServer goals and archi-tecture. It also describes our experience operating the SkyServer on the Internet. The SDSS data is public and well-documented so it makes a good test platform for research on database algorithms and performance.

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