Image Use Policy ( http://www.sdss.org/collaboration/#image-use )

Our Image Use Policy is that any SDSS image on the SDSS Web site may be downloaded, linked to, or otherwise used for any purpose, provided that you maintain the image credits. Unless otherwise stated, images should be credited to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We provide all images on a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

We note that

• Your use of the image does not imply our endorsement of any product or service
• If the image is to be used on a Web page, we also ask as a courtesy that you provide a link back to our site at www.sdss.org.

All SDSS data released in our public data releases is considered in the public domain.

Any questions about image use should be directed to the ARC Corporate Office via ARC’s Business Manager as follows:

Michael Evans
ARC Business Manager
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University of Washington 
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: +1-206-685-7857
Email: evansm@uw.edu

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Official SDSS Acknowledgment ( https://www.sdss.org/collaboration/#OfficialSDSSAcknowledgment )

We request that the following be added to the acknowledgment section of any paper using data from the SDSS.

Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org.

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