SDSS-III Institutions

Please use the official SDSS-III acknowledgement when acknowledging the SDSS-III collaboration, including member institutions and funding agencies. There are full member institutions, associate member institutions, and participation groups.

Full member institutions:

  • University of Arizona
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Cambridge University
  • University of Florida
  • Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Max Planck Astrophysics, Garching
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • New Mexico State University
  • New York University
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Portsmouth
  • Princeton University
  • University of Tokyo/IPMU
  • University of Utah
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Virginia
  • University of Washington
  • Yale University

Associate member institutions:

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Case Western University
  • Fermilab
  • Institucio Catalana de Recerca y Estudis Avancat, Barcelona
  • Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular
  • Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia
  • UC Irvine
  • Korean Institute for Advanced Study
  • Penn State University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • UC Santa Cruz
  • Texas Christian University
  • Trieste Astrophysical Observatory
  • University of Wisconsin

Participation groups:

  • Brazilian Participation Group (Observatorio Nacional and individual researchers)
  • French Participation Group (APC, IAP, LAM, CEA/SPP, Besancon, CPPM)
  • German Participation Group (AIP, MPIA, ZAH)
  • Michigan State, Notre Dame, JINA Participation Group