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Algorithms in SDSS Data Release 10

This page contains detailed information about the algorithms used to process the imaging and spectroscopic data used in SDSS and SDSS-III.

Survey-wide

Important considerations that affect all forms of SDSS data

Target selection

Algorithms that define how various spectroscopic programs of the SDSS select objects for spectroscopic follow-up

Optical Spectroscopy

Algorithms that process optical spectra

Infrared Spectroscopy NEW in DR10!

Algorithms that process SDSS-III APOGEE infrared spectroscopic data and associated catalogs

Images

Algorithms that process SDSS images

Image catalogs

Algorithms that create the imaging catalog data