Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Sloan Digital Sky Survey supports an astronomy collaboration with infrastructure and observations of stars, galaxies, and quasars to advance discoveries about the universe’s structure and evolution.
Funder: Sloan Foundation
Due Dates: Participation inquiries: contact SDSS directly
Funding Amounts: Foundation support is provided through the Astrophysical Research Consortium
Summary: Supports an all-sky spectroscopic survey to advance discoveries about the universe’s structure, stars, galaxies, and black holes.
Key Information: This program does not accept unsolicited letters of inquiry.
Description
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the Sloan Foundation’s longest-running scientific research program. Through support for the Astrophysical Research Consortium, the Foundation helps build and operate astronomical infrastructure and observations of millions of stars, galaxies, and quasars. Its goal is to accelerate discoveries about the universe’s large-scale evolution and structure, star and galaxy formation, the Milky Way’s history, supermassive black holes, and dark energy.
The fifth phase, SDSS-V, is led by Director Juna Kollmeier and uses telescopes in both hemispheres, including the Sloan Foundation Telescope in New Mexico and the Irénée du Pont Telescope in Chile through a partnership with Carnegie Observatories. The collaboration combines robotic observation upgrades with participatory, bottom-up research planning. All SDSS data is eventually released in full for open use by the astronomy community and the broader public.
