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

Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Astrophysical Research Consortium is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as external partner at DePaul University, External partner organization, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) / Astrophysical Research Consortium, Off-campus (SDSS collaboration; survey data archives). Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ✓

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

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

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

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • 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

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 archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001579)
Sponsored FAST support GRA-071 ARC/SDSS ↔ DePaul Listed in FY 2020 ORS annual report archived institutional source

Verification

  • Status: ✓ Confirmed
  • 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) — archived institutional source (depaul/SRC-001579)
  • GRA-071 ORS listing Astrophysical Research Consortium/SDSS — archived institutional source

Equipment

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

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Documented Relationships

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

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 documented publication and people connections. 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

Sources

  1. 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.