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Preprint
Report number	MSR-TR-01-104 ; FERMILAB-PUB-02-449-AE ; cs/0202013 ; MSR-TR-2001-104
Title	The SDSS SkyServer : Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data
Related title	SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
Author(s)	Szalay, Alexander S. (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Gray, Jim (Microsoft, Redmond) ; Thakar, Ani R. (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Kunszt, Peter Z. (CERN) ; Malik, Tanu (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Raddick, Jordan (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Stoughton, Christopher (Fermilab) ; vandenBerg, Jan (Johns Hopkins U.)
Publication	2002
Imprint	12 Feb 2002
Number of pages	12
Subject category	Computing and Computers
Abstract	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.
Other source	Inspire
Submitted by	gray@microsoft.com