The SDSS SkyServer: Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data
Digital Libraries
2007-05-23 v1 Databases
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0202013,
title = {The SDSS SkyServer: Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data},
author = {Alexander S. Szalay and Jim Gray and Ani R. Thakar and Peter Z. Kunszt and Tanu Malik and Jordan Raddick and Christopher Stoughton and Jan vandenBerg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0202013},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, original word document at http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/Papers/MSR_TR_01_104_SkyServer.doc