An overview of the SDSS-related Jupyter tutorial notebooks, hosted by the MAST Notebooks Repository, demonstrating how to search and download SDSS data at MAST, and a variety of use cases between SDSS data and other MAST archival data.
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APOGEE Tutorial: Characterizing Variable Stars with APOGEE and TESS
The Characterizing Variable Stars with APOGEE and TESS notebook demonstrates how to search for and download APOGEE data from MAST, plotting stellar spectra and atmospheric parameters from APOGEE with light curves from TESS for different types of variable stars.
eBOSS Tutorial: Exploring High-Redshift Quasars with eBOSS and JWST
The Exploring High-Redshift Quasars with eBOSS and JWST notebook demonstrates how to search for and download eBOSS data from MAST, plotting spectra and identifying emission lines for high-redshift quasars from eBOSS and JWST.
eBOSS Tutorial: Calculating the Hubble Constant with eBOSS Galaxies
The Calculating the Hubble Constant with eBOSS notebook demonstrates how to search for and download eBOSS data from MAST, calculating the Hubble constant using spectral data from eBOSS as well as creating a color image of galaxy cluster Abell 2199.
MaNGA Tutorial: Mapping Galaxy Properties with MaNGA and HST
The Mapping Galaxy Properties with MaNGA and HST tutorial notebook demonstrates how to search for and download MaNGA data from MAST, combining H-alpha and velocity maps from MaNGA with archival HST imaging data for merging galaxy pair Mrk-848B (MaNGA ID 7443-12703).
SDSS Imaging Tutorial: Creating a Color-Magnitude Diagram for Messier 13
The Creating a Color-Magnitude Diagram for Messier 13 notebook demonstrates how to search and download SDSS Legacy Imaging Data from MAST, creating an HR Diagram and using isochrones to estimate the age of globular cluster Messier 13.
SDSS Imaging Tutorial: Galaxy Morphology with SDSS and Astrocut
The Galaxy Morphology with SDSS and Astrocut notebook shows how to use Astrocut to create image cutouts with SDSS data explore galaxy morphology by creating a Hubble Tuning Fork Diagram.
SDSS Legacy Spectra Tutorial: Stellar Classification with SEGUE
The Stellar Classification with SEGUE notebook demonstrates how to search for and download SDSS Legacy Spectra data from MAST, plotting spectra for different classifications of stars from the SEGUE survey.
Beginner Astroquery.MAST Tutorials
Beginner-level tutorials for how to use astroquery to search and download MAST data using Python. For SDSS-specific applications, search using collection='SDSS' or for a specific survey using provenance_name='MaNGA'.
