DR12 Algorithms Overview
This page contains detailed information about the algorithms used to process the imaging and spectroscopic data used in SDSS and SDSS-III.
Survey-wide
Important considerations that affect all forms of SDSS data
Target Selection
Algorithms that define how various spectroscopic programs of the SDSS select objects for spectroscopic follow-up
- APOGEE Target selection NEW in DR10!
- BOSS Target Selection
- MARVELS Target Selection NEW in DR12!
- SEGUE Target Selection
- Legacy Target Selection
Images
Algorithms that process SDSS images
Infrared Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process SDSS-III APOGEE infrared spectroscopic data and associated catalogs
Interferometry Spectroscopy
A beginners guide to MARVELS data and a description of pipeline algorithms.
- Understanding the MARVELS Instrument NEW in DR12!
- MARVELS Reduction Algorithms NEW in DR12!
Optical Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process optical spectra
Image Catalogs
Algorithms that create the imaging catalog data
Catalog Data Algorithms
Photometric processing flags
- Recommendations
- Summary of flags
- Photometric flags detail
- Full flag details (link to Lupton's page)
