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Vik Singh, Jim Gray, Ani R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jordan Raddick, Bill Boroski, Svetlana Lebedeva, Brian Yanny, “SkyServer Traffic Report – The First Five Years,” MSR-TR-2006-190, December 2006.
Jim Gray, Alex Szalay, “The World Wide Telescope,” MSDN Magazine, V. 21.5, April 2006.
Adelman-McCarthy, J.K. et al., “The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,” ApJ, 162, pp 38-48 (2006).
Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray, “Large-Scale Query and XMatch, Entering the Parallel Zone,” MSR-TR-2005-169, December 2005 presented at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, October 2005, to appear in the ASP Conference Series.
A. Pope, et. al., “Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts,”ApJ. 607 (2004) 655-660.
Ani R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray. “From FITS to SQL -- Loading and Publishing the SDSS Data,” Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen and D. Egret, 314, 38 (2004).
Budavari, T., Szalay, A.S, Malik, T., Thakar, A., O'Mullane, W., Williams, R., Gray, J., Mann, R., Yasuda, N.,
“Open SkyQuery -- VO Compliant Dynamic Federation of Astronomical Archives,” Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F.Ochsenbein, M.Allen and D.Egret, 314, 177 (2004).
Fekete, G., Szalay, A.S., Gray, J, Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen and D. Egret, “HTM2: Spatial Toolkit for the Virtual Observatory,” 314, 289 (2004).
O'Mullane, W., Gray, J., Li, N., Budavari, T., Nieto Santisteban, M., Szalay, A.S, “Batch Query System with Interactive local storage for SDSS and the VO,” Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F.Ochsenbein, M.Allen and D.Egret, 314, 372 (2004).
Nieto-Santisteban, M., Szalay, A.S., Gray, J.: Proc. ADASS XIII, ASP Conference Series, eds: F. Ochsenbein.
M Allen and D. Egret, “ImgCutout, an Engine of Instantaneous Astronomical Discovery,” 314, 666 (2004).
K. Abazajian, et. al., “The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,” ApJ, 128, 502 (2004).
Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, William O'Mullane, Jim Gray, Nolan Li, Tamas Budavari, Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar,
“Extending the SDSS Batch Query System to the National Virtual Observatory Grid”, pdf, MSR-TR-2004-12, February 2004.
Thakar, A.R., Szalay A.S., Vandenberg, J., Gray. J., Stoughton, C., “Data Organization of the SDSS Data Release 1,” Proc. ADASS XII, ASP Conference Series, eds: H.Payne, R.I. Jedrzejewski and R.N.Hook, 295, 217 (2003).
D.P Schneider, et al , “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. II. First Data Release,” Astron. J., 126, 2579 (2003).
J. Gray, A.S. Szalay, A. Thakar, P. Kunszt, C. Stoughton, D. Slutz, J. vandenBerg, “Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database,”pdf,Distributed Data & Structures 4: Records of the 4th International Meeting, pp 189-210 W. Litwin, G. Levy (eds), Paris France March 2002, Carleton Scientific 2003, ISBN 1-894145-13-5, also MSR-TR-2002-01, Jan. 2002.
Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein, Mike Carey, Stefano Ceri, Bruce Croft, David DeWitt, Mike Franklin, Hector Garcia Molina, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Laura Haas, Alon Halevy, Joe Hellerstein, Yannis Ioannidis, Martin Kersten, Michael Pazzani, Mike Lesk, David Maier, Jeff Naughton, Hans Schek, Timos Sellis, Avi Silberschatz, Mike Stonebraker, Rick Snodgrass, Jeff Ullman, Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom, Stan Zdonik, “The Lowell Database Research Self Assessment”, pdf, June 2003, Communications of the ACMV 48.5, pp. 111-118, December, 2005.
A.R. Thakar, A.S. Szalay, P.Z. Kunszt, J. Gray, “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive: Migrating a Multi-Terabyte Astronomical Archive from Object to Relational DBMS”, pdf, May 2003, Computing in Science and Engineering, V5.5,Sept 2003, IEEE Press. pp. 16-29.
Alexander S. Szalay, Tamás Budavari, Andrew Connolly, Jim Gray, Takahiko Matsubara, Adrian Pope and István Szapudi, “Spatial Clustering of Galaxies in Large Datasets,” pdf, SPIE Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments, 22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Alexander S. Szalay, Tamás Budavária, Tanu Malik, Jim Gray, and Ani Thakar, “Web Services for the Virtual Observatory,” pdf, SPIE Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments, 22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Jim Gray, Alex Szalay, “The World Wide Telescope: An Archetype for Online Science,” pdf, MSR TR 2002-75, pp 4, CACM, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 50-54, Nov. 2002.
A. Szalay, J. Gray, A. Thakar, P. Kuntz, T. Malik, J. Raddick, C. Stoughton. J. Vandenberg, “The SDSS SkyServer – Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data,”pdf, ACM SIGMOD 2002, MSR TR 2001 104.
C. Stoughton et. al., “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release,” Astronomical Journal, 123 1: pp. 485-548 (2002).
Szalay, A.S., Gray, “The World Wide Telescope,” pdf, J., Science, V.293 pp. 2037-2038. 14 Sept 2001. (MS-TR-2001-77).
Szalay, A.S., Gray, J., Kunszt, P., Thakar, A. and Slutz, D., “Large Databases in Astronomy,” Mining the Sky, Proceedings of MPA/ESO/MPE workshop, Springer, pp. 99-118, (2001).
Szalay, A.S., Kunszt, P.Z., Thakar, A., Gray, J. and Slutz, D., “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Archive,” in Proc ADASS IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree, (ASP Conference series), 216, 405 (2000).
A. Szalay, J. Gray, P. Kunszt, A. Thakar, “Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey,” pdf, MS-TR-99-30, June 1999, Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 2000, pp. 451-462.

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