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Ten Years of SkyServer I: Tracking Web and SQL e-Science Usage by Raddick, M. Jordan, Thakar, Ani R., Szalay, Alexander S., Santos, Rafael D.C.

“…SkyServer is the primary catalog data portal of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that makes multiple terabytes of astronomy data available to the world. Here, the…”
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Ten Years of SkyServer II: How Astronomers and the Public Have Embraced e-Science by Raddick, M. Jordan, Thakar, Ani R., Szalay, Alexander S., Santos, Rafael D.C.

“…A comprehensive analysis of 10 years of Web and SQL traffic on SkyServer--the online portal to the multiterabyte Sloan Digital Sky Survey archive--shows the…”
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The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data by Filiz Ak, N., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Ata, Metin, Aubert, Marie, Barger, Kat, Beers, Timothy C., Bernardi, Mariangela, Bidin, Christian Moni, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael R., Borissova, Jura, Buchner, Johannes, Bundy, Kevin, Bureau, Martin, Burgasser, Adam, Cabang, Tuesday K., Cappellari, Michele, Cherinka, Brian, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Comerford, Julia M., Crane, Jeffrey D., Dai, Y. Sophia, Damke, Guillermo, Darling, Jeremy, Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, Sánchez, Helena Domínguez, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Fan, Xiaohui, Fillingham, Sean P, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fromenteau, Sebastien, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph, Goddy, Julian, Greener, Michael, Grier, Catherine J., Hearty, Fred, Holtzman, Jon A., Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hsu, Yun-Hsin, Ilha, Gabriele S., Jaekle, Will, Khalatyan, Dr. Arman, Kreckel, Kathryn, Lane, Richard R., Lazarz, Daniel, Leung, Henry W., Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Long, Dan, Luo, Yuanze, Manchado, Arturo, Mathur, Savita, McDermid, Richard M., Mckay, Myles, Merrifield, Michael, Di Mille, Francesco, Muñoz, Ricardo R., Nandra, Kirpal, Nitschelm, Christian, Garma-Oehmichen, Luis, Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, Anna, Riffel, Rogério, Roman-Lopes, Alexandre, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rubin, Kate H. R., Sarmiento, Regina, Sayres, Conor, Schaefer, Adam L., Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J, Schwope, Axel, Serenelli, Aldo, Shetrone, Matthew, Skrutskie, M. F., Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Stutz, Amelia, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Ani, Theissen, Christopher, Tkachenko, Andrew, Tojeiro, Rita, Turner, Jacqueline, Vargas-González, Jaime, Villanova, Sandro, Vincenzo, Fiorenzo, Westfall, Kyle B., Wild, Vivienne, Wilde, Matthew C.

“…Abstract This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase…”
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The Catalog Archive Server Database Management System by Thakar, Ani R., Szalay, Alex, Fekete, George, Gray, Jim

“…The multiterabyte Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS's) catalog data is stored in a commercial relational database management system with SQL query access and a…”
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Drinking from the Fire Hose by Thakar, Ani R.

“…The Sloan Digital Sky Survey science archive represents a thousand-fold increase in the total amount of data that astronomers have collected to date. The…”
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SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy by Kollmeier, Juna A, Zasowski, Gail, Rix, Hans-Walter, Johns, Matt, Anderson, Scott F, Drory, Niv, Johnson, Jennifer A, Pogge, Richard W, Bird, Jonathan C, Blanc, Guillermo A, Brownstein, Joel R, Crane, Jeffrey D, De Lee, Nathan M, Klaene, Mark A, Kreckel, Kathryn, MacDonald, Nick, Merloni, Andrea, Ness, Melissa K, O'Brien, Thomas, Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R, Sayres, Conor C, Shen, Yue, Thakar, Ani R, Tkachenko, Andrew, Aerts, Conny, Blanton, Michael R, Eisenstein, Daniel J, Holtzman, Jon A, Maoz, Dan, Nandra, Kirpal, Rockosi, Constance, Weinberg, David H, Bovy, Jo, Casey, Andrew R, Chaname, Julio, Clerc, Nicolas, Conroy, Charlie, Eracleous, Michael, Gänsicke, Boris T, Hekker, Saskia, Horne, Keith, Kauffmann, Jens, McQuinn, Kristen B. W, Pellegrini, Eric W, Schinnerer, Eva, Schlafly, Edward F, Schwope, Axel D, Seibert, Mark, Teske, Johanna K, van Saders, Jennifer L

“…SDSS-V will be an all-sky, multi-epoch spectroscopic survey of over six million objects. It is designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, trace the…”
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CasJobs and MyDB: A Batch Query Workbench by Li, Nolan, Thakar, Ani R.

“…Catalog archive server jobs (CasJobs) is an asynchronous query workbench service that lets users run unrestricted SQL queries against scientific catalog…”
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Lessons Learned from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server by Thakar, Ani R.

“…The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first very large archives in astronomy and other sciences. Experiences gained over the past decade of SDSS Catalog…”
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The sqlLoader Data-Loading Pipeline by Szalay, Alex, Thakar, Ani R., Gray, Jim

“…Using a database management system (DBMS) is essential to ensure the data integrity and reliability of large, multidimensional data sets. However, loading…”
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Make Research Data Public?—Not Always so Simple: A Dialogue for Statisticians and Science Editors by Sedransk, Nell, Young, Linda J., Kelner, Katrina L., Moffitt, Robert A., Thakar, Ani, Raddick, Jordan, Ungvarsky, Edward J., Carlson, Richard W., Apweiler, Rolf, Cox, Lawrence H., Nolan, Deborah, Soper, Keith, Spiegelman, Cliff

“…Putting data into the public domain is not the same thing as making those data accessible for intelligent analysis. A distinguished group of editors and…”
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Data mining middleware for wide-area high-performance networks by Grossman, Robert L., Gu, Yunhong, Hanley, David, Sabala, Michal, Mambretti, Joe, Szalay, Alex, Thakar, Ani, Kumazoe, Kazumi, Yuji, Oie, Lee, Minsun, Kwon, Yoonjoo, Seok, Woojin

“…In this paper, we describe two distributed, data intensive applications that were demonstrated at iGrid 2005 (iGrid Demonstration US109 and iGrid Demonstration…”
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GrayWulf: Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing by Szalay, A.S., Bell, G., Vandenberg, J., Wonders, A., Burns, R., Dan Fay, Heasley, J., Hey, T., Nieto-SantiSteban, M., Thakar, A., van Ingen, C., Wilton, R.

“…Data intensive computing presents a significant challenge for traditional supercomputing architectures that maximize FLOPS since CPU speed has surpassed IO…”
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Migrating a multiterabyte archive from object to relational databases by Thakar, A., Szalay, A., Kunszt, P., Gray, J.

“…A commercial, object-oriented database engine with custom tools for data-mining the multiterabyte Sloan Digital Sky Survey archive did not meet its performance…”
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The Challenges of a Public Data Release: behind the scenes of SDSS DR13 by Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S, Brownstein, Joel, Raddick, M. Jordan, Thakar, Ani

“…The Sloan Digitial Sky Surveys (SDSS) have been collecting imaging and spectoscopic data since 1998. These data as well as their derived data products are made…”
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A Dynamic Data Middleware Cache for Rapidly-growing Scientific Repositories by Malik, Tanu, Wang, Xiaodan, Little, Philip, Chaudhary, Amitabh, Thakar, Ani

“…Modern scientific repositories are growing rapidly in size. Scientists are increasingly interested in viewing the latest data as part of query results. Current…”
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Distributing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using UDT and Sector by Gu, Yunhong, Grossman, Robert L., Szalay, Alex, Thakar, Ani

“…In this paper, we describe a peer-to-peer storage system called Sector that is designed to access and transport large data sets over wide area high performance…”
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Make Research Data Public? -- Not Always so Simple: A Dialogue for Statisticians and Science Editors by Sedransk, Nell, Cox, Lawrence H, Nolan, Deborah, Soper, Keith, Spiegelman, Cliff, Young, Linda J, Kelner, Katrina L, Moffitt, Robert A, Thakar, Ani, Raddick, Jordan, Ungvarsky, Edward J, Carlson, Richard W, Apweiler, Rolf

“…Statistical Science 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1, 41-50 Putting data into the public domain is not the same thing as making those data accessible for intelligent…”
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Cross-Matching Multiple Spatial Observations and Dealing with Missing Data by Gray, Jim, Szalay, Alex, Budavari, Tamas, Lupton, Robert, Nieto-Santisteban, Maria, Thakar, Ani

“…Cross-match spatially clusters and organizes several astronomical point-source measurements from one or more surveys. Ideally, each object would be found in…”
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Indexing the Sphere with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh by Szalay, Alexander S, Gray, Jim, Fekete, George, Kunszt, Peter Z, Kukol, Peter, Thakar, Ani

“…We describe a method to subdivide the surface of a sphere into spherical triangles of similar, but not identical, shapes and sizes. The Hierarchical Triangular…”
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SkyQuery: A WebService Approach to Federate Databases by Malik, Tanu, Szalay, Alex S, Budavari, Tamas, Thakar, Ani R

“…Traditional science searched for new objects and phenomena that led to discoveries. Tomorrow's science will combine together the large pool of information in…”
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