Stephen Kent

Summit, Mt. Rainier
(14,000 feet)
(Mt. Adams in distance)

Mostly at:Fermilab
Position: Head, Experimental Astrophysics Group
Phone:(630)840-8264
Fax:(630)840-8274
Email:skent-at-fnal.gov
Main project: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
 Also, SDSS at Fermilab
Grid Computing:Griphyn/iVDGL
Virtual ObservingNVO
Dark Energy from SpaceSNAP
Dark Energy from the Ground Dark Energy Survey
Occasionally at: University of Chicago
Phone:(773)702-3705

Projects

Current projects.

Cosmology 101 - For Fermilab HEPers

Chapters:

Astronomy & Astrophysics 452

A Primer on the SDSS

SDSS Links:

  • SDSS Resources:

  • www.sdss.org: Public website, a few nuggets of information here, especially under "Collaboration"

  • www.astro.princeton.edu: Project Book - provides much technical information.

  • www-sdss.fnal.gov: Fermilab site - documentation of software and current data processing. Restricted access.

  • www.astro.princeton.edu:81: Princeton site - restricted access. Mailing lists, filter response curves, requirements, primer on using Photo and photo outputs.

  • sdssmosaic.fnal.gov:8015: Restricted access - mosaic pictures of all imaging obtained to date.

  • sdssdata.fnal.gov: Restricted access - flatfiles of all data.

  • skyserver.sdss.org: Online database of DR2 data.

  • sm Documentation of supermongo, an eay to learn plotting program.

    • Manipulating the output of sdssQT

    The sdssQT tool is no longer used. It was the interface to the Objectivity version of the SDSS catalog archive server, which has been dumped in favor of the MS SQL Server version. The latter uses SQL natively. There are multiple interfaces; the sdssQA interface is available and is the closest in functionality to sdssQT.