Value Added Catalogs

In addition to the primary SDSS photometry and spectroscopy, there are a few extra catalogs created by our collaborators that are distributed through the SAS.

Value-Added Catalogs (VACs) for all data releases, including updates to some of these, are available from the Value Added Catalogs page of the DR17 website.

DR16
eBOSS
No CAS
QSO
Hélion du Mas des Bourboux et al.
Catalog of fluctuations of the Lyman-alpha transmitted flux fraction in the Lyman-alpha and Lyman-beta spectral regions in BOSS and eBOSS spectra, as used for the DR16 BAO measurement.

DR14
DR16
SPIDERS
No CAS
GALAXY
Mara Salvato et al.
Multi-wavelength characterization of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, based on X-ray, optical, infra-red and radio data.

DR13
MaNGA
No CAS
GALAXY
Michael R. Blanton
Galaxy image catalog based on SDSS and GALEX imaging.

DR13
eBOSS
CAS
STAR
GALAXY
Dustin Lang et al.
Catalog of SDSS and WISE sources, matched using forced photometry.

DR14
APOGEE-2
No CAS
STAR
F. Anders et al.
Astro-spectrophotometric distances, extinctions and orbit parameters for stars in the overlap sample between APOGEE and TGAS.

DR13
eBOSS
CAS
QSO
Eric Armengaud et al.
Variability information for eBOSS quasar targets.

DR13
eBOSS
No CAS
GALAXY
Timothée Delubac et al.
Catalogs of photometrically-selected Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) at z ≈ 0.8.

DR8
Legacy
No CAS
GALAXY
Guinevere Kauffmann
Galaxy properties of DR8 spectra, based on Galspec by MPA-JHU.

DR13
BOSS
No CAS
GALAXY
Erin S. Sheldon et al.
Redshift probability distributions derived with weighting techniques for photometrically detected galaxies.

DR8
DR9
DR10
DR12
DR13
BOSS
No CAS
QSO
Jo Bovy et al.
Quasar probability distributions for target selection in color-color space, based on extreme deconvolution methods.

DR10
DR11
DR12
BOSS
CAS
GALAXY
Antonio Montero-Dorta
Galaxy stellar masses based on Flexible Stellar Population Synthesis by the Granada group, for BOSS galaxies.

VACs last updated: 2024-04-05 16:52:27