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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
SDSS DR3 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3
Short name: SDSS DR3
IVOA Identifier: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsaPublisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID]
More Info: http://www.sdss.org/dr3/
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.		 Status: active
Registered: 2010 Feb 15 12:23:00Z
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Description


This is an AstroGrid Dataset Access installation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR3 hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU), University of Edinburgh. WFAU would like to thank John Hopkins University and the University of Chicago for permission to host the data.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID]

Creator: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Consortium

Contact Information:
X Mark Holliman
Email: msh at roe.ac.uk

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: Data Release 3
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Representative: 2010 Feb 15

This resource was registered on: 2010 Feb 15 12:23:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2012 Jul 18 12:34:44Z
What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Survey
 Subject keywords:
  • Stars,Survey,Galaxy
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://www.sdss.org/dr3/

Related Resources:

This is a service for accessing data from:
ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/ceaApplication

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
PhotoObjAll table: cone search of all photometric objects
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/DirectCone?DSACAT=SDSS_DR3&DSATAB=PhotoObjAll&
Maximum search radius accepted: 1.500000 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2000000
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
PhotoPrimary table: cone search of primary survey objects
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/DirectCone?DSACAT=SDSS_DR3&DSATAB=PhotoPrimary&
Maximum search radius accepted: 1.500000 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 2000000
This service will ignore the VERB input parameter.
Table Access ProtocolXX

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
    Additional non-standard Table Access Protocol interfaces:
    • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/TAP
    Custom Service

    This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

    VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
    Description:
    Access to two applications: general ADQL query, and asynchronous cone-search where relevant/enabled.
    Available endpoints for this service interface:
    • Type: CECInterface
      http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/services/CommonExecutionConnectorService
    Custom Service

    This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

    VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
    Available endpoints for this service interface:
    • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/capabilities
    VOSI CapabilitiesXX

    This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns the detailed capabilities of the main IVOA standard service.

    VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
    Available endpoints for the standard interface:
      Additional non-standard VOSI Capabilities interfaces:
      • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/capabilities
      Custom Service

      This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

      VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
      Available endpoints for this service interface:
      • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/availability
      VOSI AvailabilityXX

      This is a standard IVOA service endpoint that returns information about the availability and uptime of the main IVOA standard service.

      VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
      Available endpoints for the standard interface:
        Additional non-standard VOSI Availability interfaces:
        • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/availability
        Custom Service

        This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

        VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
        Available endpoints for this service interface:
        • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/tables
        Custom Service

        This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

        VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
        Available endpoints for this service interface:
        • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/VOSI/applications
        Custom Service

        This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

        VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
        Available endpoints for this service interface:
        • URL-based interface: http://wfaudata.roe.ac.uk/sdssdr3-dsa/delegations
          • Role: std

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        under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
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