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"The quasar was found after five years of searching through databases containing images of millions of objects." sounds intriguing... How available is the surv
by VladRussian 15y ago
"The quasar was found after five years of searching through databases containing images of millions of objects."
sounds intriguing... How available is the survey data? Last time i checked for example - the GRB observatory in South America - that one publishes only small percent of the data.
- colkassad 15y agowhile not the same project, Google 'sdss casjobs', register, and start doing some cosmic sql queries!
- splat 15y agoIt's mostly public. The data used for this discovery was taken from UKIDSS, an IR sky survey (you can get data here: http://surveys.roe.ac.uk:8080/wsa/SQL_form.jsp http://surveys.roe.ac.uk:8080/wsa/SQL_form.jsp) and SDSS, an optical survey (you can get data here: http://www.sdss3.org/dr8/data_access.php http://www.sdss3.org/dr8/data_access.php). All SDSS data is available to the public. UKIDSS data can only be accessed by ESO member countries for the first year, but after that becomes public. (I worked on a similar project to discover a high-z quasar as a summer research project in college, though unfortunately with less success.)