Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Astrophysical Research Consortium (EXT-027)

Summary 🟡 ✓

Owner Unit: External partner organization
Sub-unit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) / Astrophysical Research Consortium
Content Type: partnership
Campus/Location: Off-campus (SDSS collaboration; survey data archives)
Last Verified: August 19, 2026

Organization

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a major optical spectroscopic and imaging survey operated through the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) and partner institutions. Public data releases and collaboration membership (including education programs) are the access paths—not a DePaul telescope.

Access status

Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
Rationale: SDSS data and collaboration membership (including FAST) are survey/consortium pathways, not campus telescope checkout.
Access URL: www.sdss.org
Contact name: Office of Research Services / Physics and Astrophysics
Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
Verification date: 2026-08-19
Source URLs:
www.sdss.org
www.sdss4.org/education/faculty-and-student-team-fast…

Relationship to DePaul

Jesús Pando led a Faculty and Student Team (FAST) in SDSS-IV / eBOSS (“Wavelet Analysis of Large Scale Structure in eBOSS”), using BOSS and eBOSS catalogs to characterize baryon acoustic oscillations. ORS lists GRA-071 (FY 2020) as FAST support funded by Astrophysical Research Consortium/SDSS.

Known collaborations & connections

Jesús Pando — FAST faculty lead; Physics & Astrophysics chair
Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories
GRA-071 — Faculty and Student Team (FAST) Support at DePaul University

Collaborative documents

Document type	Scope	Parties	Status	Source
FAST collaboration membership	eBOSS / BOSS large-scale structure	Pando FAST team ↔ SDSS	Documented on SDSS-IV FAST page	`sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/sdss4-fast-depaul-eboss.html` (depaul/SRC-001579)
Sponsored FAST support	GRA-071	ARC/SDSS ↔ DePaul	Listed in FY 2020 ORS annual report	`sources/inbox/2026-06-14-ors-annual-reports-2020-2025/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_09_18_2020.pdf`

Verification

Status: confirmed (✓)
Confidence: 90/100
Rationale: Official SDSS FAST page plus ORS-funded FAST award document DePaul survey membership.
Last verified: 2026-08-19
Evidence:
SDSS-IV FAST DePaul eBOSS team page (Pando) — sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/sdss4-fast-depaul-eboss.html (depaul/SRC-001579)
GRA-071 ORS listing Astrophysical Research Consortium/SDSS — sources/inbox/2026-06-14-ors-annual-reports-2020-2025/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_09_18_2020.pdf

Equipment

Sloan Digital Sky Survey catalogs and collaboration data. Not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Website: SDSS
Website: DePaul FAST / eBOSS team

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

Jesús Pando (Faculty lead) — jpando@depaul.edu · Profile

Documented Relationships

Survey archive and collaboration membership for DePaul cosmology / large-scale structure work.

Linked Relationship IDs

Linked publications

Probing the Non-Linearity in Galaxy Clusters through the Analysis of Fractal Dimension via Wavelet Transform (thesis) — VIA (PUB-106)

Documented connections

Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as ^1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

Probing the Non-Linearity in Galaxy Clusters through the Analysis of Fractal Dimension via Wavelet Transform (2018) — documented, uses · DOI¹

Sources

Methods used raw SDSS galaxies data; MATLAB codes by Pando and Khalifa. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

LSST Discovery Alliance lists Pando as a Catalyst Fellowship mentor (future Rubin Observatory datasets). That page returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-19 capture; it is not promoted as a separate EXT until a capturable institutional page documents DePaul data access.