Credits

Acknowledging SDSS

The following information is taken from the SDSS credits page.

Non-commercial use

Non-commercial scientific and technical publications using SDSS data should include the following acknowledgment of our funding sources and participating institutions:

Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/.

The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, the Korean Scientist Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.

Please make use of IAU designations for SDSS sources in your publications.

Commercial use

Data from the SDSS public archive may not be used for any commercial publication or other commercial purpose except with explicit approval by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC). Requests for such use should be directed to the ARC Corporate Office via ARC's Business Manager as follows:

Michael L. Evans
ARC Business Manager
c/o University of Washington
Office of Research, Box 351202
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-685-7857
Email: evans@astro.washington.edu

Web site credits

The web pages were implemented by Roy Gal (Johns Hopkins University) and Sebastian Jester (Fermilab). Graphics design by Xeno Media.

We did our best both to make the pages readable and to obtain a consistent look, independent of the platform and browser. There is one reported problem: the font size randomly changes to a too-large font with UNIX/LINUX Netscape 4.x. If this happens to you, try the following: in "Edit-Preferences... Appearance-Fonts", select "Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts", and choose a font size which renders legibly on your screen in the panel above.

Last modified: Tue Aug 2 13:08:51 CDT 2005