Algorithms Overview

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

Infrared Spectroscopy

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

Interferometry Spectroscopy

A beginners guide to MARVELS data and a description of pipeline algorithms.