SDSS Galaxy Subset

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey  (SDSS) is a comprehensive survey of the northern sky. This dataset contains a subset of this survey, of 100077 objects classified as galaxies, it includes a CSV file with a collection of information and a set of files for each object, namely JPG image files, FITS and spectra data. This dataset is used to train and explore the astromlp-models collection of deep learning models for galaxies characterisation.

The dataset includes a CSV data file where each row is an object from the SDSS database, and with the following columns (note that some data may not be available for all objects):

objid: unique SDSS object identifier 

mjd: MJD of observation

plate: plate identifier

tile: tile identifier

fiberid: fiber identifier

run: run number

rerun: rerun number

camcol: camera column

field: field number

ra: right ascension

dec: declination

class: spectroscopic class (only objetcs with GALAXY are included)

subclass: spectroscopic subclass

modelMag_u: better of DeV/Exp magnitude fit for band u

modelMag_g: better of DeV/Exp magnitude fit for band g

modelMag_r: better of DeV/Exp magnitude fit for band r

modelMag_i: better of DeV/Exp magnitude fit for band i

modelMag_z: better of DeV/Exp magnitude fit for band z

redshift: final redshift from SDSS data z

stellarmass: stellar mass extracted from the eBOSS Firefly catalog

w1mag: WISE W1 "standard" aperture magnitude

w2mag: WISE W2 "standard" aperture magnitude

w3mag: WISE W3 "standard" aperture magnitude

w4mag: WISE W4 "standard" aperture magnitude

gz2c_f: Galaxy Zoo 2 classification from Willett et al 2013

gz2c_s: simplified version of Galaxy Zoo 2 classification (labels set)

Besides the CSV file a set of directories are included in the dataset, in each directory you'll find a list of files named after the objid column from the CSV file, with the corresponding data, the following directories tree is available:

sdss-gs/
├── data.csv
├── fits
├── img
├── spectra
└── ssel

Where, each directory contains:

img: RGB images from the object in JPEG format, 150x150 pixels, generated using the SkyServer DR16 API

fits: FITS data subsets around the object across the u, g, r, i, z bands; cut is done using the ImageCutter library

spectra: full best fit spectra data from SDSS between 4000 and 9000 wavelengths

ssel: best fit spectra data from SDSS for specific selected intervals of wavelengths discussed by Sánchez Almeida 2010

Changelog

v0.0.4 - Increase number of objects to ~100k.

v0.0.3 - Increase number of objects to ~80k.

v0.0.2 - Increase number of objects to ~60k.

v0.0.1 - Initial import.