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 43274 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,

• 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