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

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...

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Autores principales: Szalay, A S, Gray, J, Thakar, A R, Kunszt, Zoltán, Malik, T, Raddick, J, Stoughton, C, Van den Berg, J
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
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Computing and Computers
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/538377
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Sumario: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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