Algorithms Overview
This page contains detailed information about the algorithms used to process the imaging and spectroscopic data used in SDSS, SDSS-III and SDSS-IV.
Survey-wide
Important considerations that affect all forms of SDSS data:
Software
Software to view and process SDSS data:
Spectroscopy Algorithms
Optical
Algorithms that process optical spectra and associated catalogs
Infrared
Algorithms that process infrared spectroscopic data and associated catalogs
Interferometry Spectroscopy
A beginners guide to MARVELS data and a description of pipeline algorithms.
Integral-Field Spectroscopy
Algorithms that process SDSS-IV MaNGA optical integral-field spectroscopy
Target Selection
Algorithms that define how various spectroscopic programs of the SDSS select objects for spectroscopic follow-up
Images
Algorithms that process SDSS images
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 R. Lupton’s page)
