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1. The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Department of Energy (US), University of Utah, Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, Gabriela, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Almeida, Andres, Ananna, Tonima Tasnim, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Mariappan, Vivek, Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Dell'Agli, Flavia, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Frinchaboy, Peter, Lacerna, Ivan, Pieri, Matthew M., Barger, Kathleen A., Urry, Meg, Bershady, Matthew A., Valenzuela, O., van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-González, Jaime, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Delubac, Timothée, Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Pinsonneault, Marc, Wylezalek, Dominika, Villanova, Sandro, Vogt, Nicole P., Zasowski, Gail, Wake, David, Fu, Hai, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Beutler, Florian, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Weijmans, Anne-Marie, da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Masseron, Thomas, Weinberg, David H., Zhang, Kai, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Pisani, Alice, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Merrifield, Michael R., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., García Pérez, Ana E., Sánchez, Sebastián F., Zhu, Guangtun, Eracleous, Michael, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Blanc, Guillermo A., Prada, Francisco, Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Lane, Richard R., Donor, John, Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, Sanchez Almeida, Jorge, Bovy, Jo, Garcia-Dias, R., Ybarra, Jason E., McDermid, Richard M., Bradna Diaz, Christian Andres, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Lang, Dustin, Brownstein, Joel R., Downes, Juan José, Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Prakash, Abhishek, Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Busca, Nicolás G., Cañas, Caleb I., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, McGreer, Ian D., Law, David R., García-Hernández, Domingo Aníbal, Cappellari, Michele, Whelan, David G., Carrera, Ricardo, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Casey, Andrew R., Cervantes Sodi, Bernardo, Chen, Yanping, Beaton, Rachael, Cherinka, Brian, Chiappini, Cristina, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Melendez, Matthew, Baumgarten, Falk, Finoguenov, Alexis, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Garma Oehmichen, Luis Alberto, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Santana Rojas, Felipe Antonio, Lee, Young-Bae, Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, de la Torre, Sylvain, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, da Costa, Luiz, Drory, Niv, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Covey, Kevin, Crane, J.D., Armengaud, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Kirkby, David, Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Cunha, Katia, du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Gelfand, Joseph, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett L., Davis Eigenbrot, Arthur, Schwope, Axel, Fleming, Scott W., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Wilcots, Eric, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, González Hernández, Jonay I., Raddick, M. Jordan, Li, Hongyu, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Wild, Vivienne, Green, Paul J., Meza, Andres, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Grier, Catherine J., Ata, Metin, Gueguen, Alain, Raichoor, Anand, Guo, Hong, Li, Cheng, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Patrick, Williams, Rob A., Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Schlafly, Edward F., Barboza Rembold, Sandro, Minchev, Ivan, Hayes, Christian R., Damke, Guillermo J., Hearty, Fred, Aubourg, Éric, Hekker, Saskia, Hernández, Jesús, Gómez Maqueo Chew, Yilen, Hernandez Toledo, Hector, Hogg, David W., Richstein, Hannah, Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Schlegel, David J., Masters, Karen L., Hou, Jiamin, Minniti, Dante, Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hunt, Jason A. S., Hutchinson, Timothy A., Wilson, John, Riffel, Rogemar A., Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Hwang, Ho Seong, Jimenez Angel, Camilo Eduardo, Johnson, Jennifer A., Lian, Jianhui, Jones, Amy, Schneider, Donald P., Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Khan, Fahim Sakil, Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Kinemuchi, Karen, Liang, Yu, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Yèche, Christophe, Seo, Hee-Jong, Darling, Jeremy, Mackereth, J. Ted, Salvato, Mara, Balland, Christophe, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Muñoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Riffel, Rogério, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Davidson, James W., Jr., Ness, Melissa, Beers, Timothy C., Bird, Jonathan C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Escoffier, Stephanie, Nichol, Robert C., Bartosz, Curtis, Rix, Hans-Walter, Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Dawson, Kyle, O'Connell, Julia, Oelkers, Ryan James, Oravetz, Audrey, Xiao, Ting, Serenelli, Aldo, Oravetz, Daniel, Kirkpatrick, Charles C., IV, Ortíz, Erik Aquino, Fan, Xiaohui, Osorio, Yeisson, Pace, Zach, Merloni, Andrea, Bastien, Fabienne, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Yan, Renbin, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Pan, Hsi-An, Shen, Shiyin, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, de Icaza Lizaola, Miguel Angel C., Fernández Alvar, Emma, Park, Changbom, Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Robin, Annie C., Bates, Dominic, Yang, Meng, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Pèrez-Fournon, Ismael, de la Macorra, Axel, Petitjean, Patrick, Rodríguez Torres, Sergio, Shen, Yue, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Bautista, Julian, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Zakamska, Nadia, Badenes, Carles, Ruggeri, Rossana, Westfall, Kyle B., Feuillet, Diane, Ruiz, Jose, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Silva Aguirre, Víctor, Simon, Joshua D., Skrutskie, Mike, Slosar, Anže, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Smethurst, Rebecca, Galbany, Lluís, Gaulme, Patrick, Belfiore, Francesco, Majewski, Steven R., Smith, Verne, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souter, Barbara J., Knapp, Gillian R., Souto, Diogo, Spindler, Ashley, Stark, David V., De Lee, Nathan, Zamora, Olga, Stassun, Keivan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Manchado, Arturo, Stello, Dennis, Bender, Chad F., Schuster, William J., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., de Sainte Agathe, Victoria, Suárez, Genaro, Zarrouk, Pauline, Sun, Jing, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Maraston, Claudia, Talbot, Michael S., Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Freischlad, Gordon, Deconto Machado, Alice, Bernardi, Mariangela, Tayar, Jamie, Sánchez, Ariel G., Tembe, Mita, Kollmeier, Juna A., Teske, Johanna, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Department of Energy (US), University of Utah, Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, Gabriela, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Almeida, Andres, Ananna, Tonima Tasnim, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Mariappan, Vivek, Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Dell'Agli, Flavia, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Frinchaboy, Peter, Lacerna, Ivan, Pieri, Matthew M., Barger, Kathleen A., Urry, Meg, Bershady, Matthew A., Valenzuela, O., van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-González, Jaime, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Delubac, Timothée, Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Pinsonneault, Marc, Wylezalek, Dominika, Villanova, Sandro, Vogt, Nicole P., Zasowski, Gail, Wake, David, Fu, Hai, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Beutler, Florian, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Weijmans, Anne-Marie, da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Masseron, Thomas, Weinberg, David H., Zhang, Kai, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Pisani, Alice, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Merrifield, Michael R., Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K., García Pérez, Ana E., Sánchez, Sebastián F., Zhu, Guangtun, Eracleous, Michael, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Blanc, Guillermo A., Prada, Francisco, Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Lane, Richard R., Donor, John, Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, Sanchez Almeida, Jorge, Bovy, Jo, Garcia-Dias, R., Ybarra, Jason E., McDermid, Richard M., Bradna Diaz, Christian Andres, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Lang, Dustin, Brownstein, Joel R., Downes, Juan José, Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Prakash, Abhishek, Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Busca, Nicolás G., Cañas, Caleb I., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, McGreer, Ian D., Law, David R., García-Hernández, Domingo Aníbal, Cappellari, Michele, Whelan, David G., Carrera, Ricardo, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Casey, Andrew R., Cervantes Sodi, Bernardo, Chen, Yanping, Beaton, Rachael, Cherinka, Brian, Chiappini, Cristina, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Melendez, Matthew, Baumgarten, Falk, Finoguenov, Alexis, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Garma Oehmichen, Luis Alberto, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Santana Rojas, Felipe Antonio, Lee, Young-Bae, Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, de la Torre, Sylvain, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, da Costa, Luiz, Drory, Niv, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Covey, Kevin, Crane, J.D., Armengaud, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Kirkby, David, Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Cunha, Katia, du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Gelfand, Joseph, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett L., Davis Eigenbrot, Arthur, Schwope, Axel, Fleming, Scott W., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Wilcots, Eric, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, González Hernández, Jonay I., Raddick, M. Jordan, Li, Hongyu, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Wild, Vivienne, Green, Paul J., Meza, Andres, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Grier, Catherine J., Ata, Metin, Gueguen, Alain, Raichoor, Anand, Guo, Hong, Li, Cheng, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Patrick, Williams, Rob A., Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Schlafly, Edward F., Barboza Rembold, Sandro, Minchev, Ivan, Hayes, Christian R., Damke, Guillermo J., Hearty, Fred, Aubourg, Éric, Hekker, Saskia, Hernández, Jesús, Gómez Maqueo Chew, Yilen, Hernandez Toledo, Hector, Hogg, David W., Richstein, Hannah, Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Schlegel, David J., Masters, Karen L., Hou, Jiamin, Minniti, Dante, Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hunt, Jason A. S., Hutchinson, Timothy A., Wilson, John, Riffel, Rogemar A., Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Hwang, Ho Seong, Jimenez Angel, Camilo Eduardo, Johnson, Jennifer A., Lian, Jianhui, Jones, Amy, Schneider, Donald P., Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Khan, Fahim Sakil, Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Kinemuchi, Karen, Liang, Yu, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Yèche, Christophe, Seo, Hee-Jong, Darling, Jeremy, Mackereth, J. Ted, Salvato, Mara, Balland, Christophe, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Muñoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Riffel, Rogério, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Davidson, James W., Jr., Ness, Melissa, Beers, Timothy C., Bird, Jonathan C., Newman, Jeffrey A., Escoffier, Stephanie, Nichol, Robert C., Bartosz, Curtis, Rix, Hans-Walter, Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Dawson, Kyle, O'Connell, Julia, Oelkers, Ryan James, Oravetz, Audrey, Xiao, Ting, Serenelli, Aldo, Oravetz, Daniel, Kirkpatrick, Charles C., IV, Ortíz, Erik Aquino, Fan, Xiaohui, Osorio, Yeisson, Pace, Zach, Merloni, Andrea, Bastien, Fabienne, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Yan, Renbin, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Pan, Hsi-An, Shen, Shiyin, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, de Icaza Lizaola, Miguel Angel C., Fernández Alvar, Emma, Park, Changbom, Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Robin, Annie C., Bates, Dominic, Yang, Meng, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Pèrez-Fournon, Ismael, de la Macorra, Axel, Petitjean, Patrick, Rodríguez Torres, Sergio, Shen, Yue, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Bautista, Julian, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Zakamska, Nadia, Badenes, Carles, Ruggeri, Rossana, Westfall, Kyle B., Feuillet, Diane, Ruiz, Jose, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Silva Aguirre, Víctor, Simon, Joshua D., Skrutskie, Mike, Slosar, Anže, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Smethurst, Rebecca, Galbany, Lluís, Gaulme, Patrick, Belfiore, Francesco, Majewski, Steven R., Smith, Verne, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souter, Barbara J., Knapp, Gillian R., Souto, Diogo, Spindler, Ashley, Stark, David V., De Lee, Nathan, Zamora, Olga, Stassun, Keivan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Manchado, Arturo, Stello, Dennis, Bender, Chad F., Schuster, William J., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., de Sainte Agathe, Victoria, Suárez, Genaro, Zarrouk, Pauline, Sun, Jing, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Maraston, Claudia, Talbot, Michael S., Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Freischlad, Gordon, Deconto Machado, Alice, Bernardi, Mariangela, Tayar, Jamie, Sánchez, Ariel G., Tembe, Mita, Kollmeier, Juna A., and Teske, Johanna
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall (making this Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes the data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (2014-2016 July) public. Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data-driven machine-learning algorithm known as ¿The Cannon¿ and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from the SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS web site (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020 and will be followed by SDSS-V. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society..
Published: 2018

2. The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, Gabriela, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Ananna, Tonima Tasnim, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Ata, Metin, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bastien, Fabienne, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Bernardi, Mariangela, Bershady, Matthew A., Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Mederic, Borissova, Jura, Bovy, Jo, Diaz, Christian Andres Bradna, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Canas, Caleb I., Cano-Diaz, Mariana, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Casey, Andrew R., Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, da Costa, Luiz, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cunha, Katia, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, De Lee, Nathan, Agathe, Victoria de Sainte, Machado, Alice Deconto, Dell'Agli, Flavia, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh, Escoffier, Stephanie, Fan, Xiaohui, Alvar, Emma Fernandez, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Feuillet, Diane, Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Galbany, Lluis, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Oehmichen, Luis Alberto Garma, Gaulme, Patrick, Gelfand, Joseph, Gil-Marin, Hector, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gueguen, Alain, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Patrick, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Hernandez, Jesus, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon, Hou, Jiamin, Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hunt, Jason A. S., Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Angel, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jonsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Khan, Fahim Sakil, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick IV, Charles C., Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young-Bae, Li, Hongyu, Li, Cheng, Lian, Jianhui, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Mackereth, J. Ted, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Majewski, Steven, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Mariappan, Vivek, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McDermid, Richard M., McGreer, Ian D., Melendez, Matthew, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Muller-Sanchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, O'Connell, Julia, Oelkers, Ryan James, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Ortiz, Erik Aquino, Osorio, Yeisson, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Hsi-An, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Barbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogerio, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Torres, Sergio Rodriguez, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Ruiz, Jose, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Almeida, Jorge Sanchez, Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Rojas, Felipe Antonio Santana, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Edward, Schlegel, David, Schneider, Donald P., Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Shen, Shiyin, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Simon, Joshua D., Skrutskie, Mike, Slosar, Anze, Smethurst, Rebecca, Smith, Verne, Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souter, Barbara J., Souto, Diogo, Spindler, Ashley, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy, Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Talbot, Michael S., Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thaker, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Urry, Meg, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. 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Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V., Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected)
Published: 2017
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3. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, Bosch, Remco van den, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, da Costa, Luiz, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A. C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Axel, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleks, Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D. A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. 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F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, de la Torre, Sylvain, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. 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C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Axel, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleks, Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D. A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, LI, Hongyu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Peña, Nicolás Medina, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O'Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, David Sánchez, Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, de la Torre, Sylvain, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially-resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median redshift of z = 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between redshifts z = 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGN and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in July 2016., Comment: Published in Astronomical Journal
Published: 2017
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4. The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, Gabriela, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Ananna, Tonima Tasnim, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Ata, Metin, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bastien, Fabienne, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Bernardi, Mariangela, Bershady, Matthew A., Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Mederic, Borissova, Jura, Bovy, Jo, Diaz, Christian Andres Bradna, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Canas, Caleb I., Cano-Diaz, Mariana, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Casey, Andrew R., Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, da Costa, Luiz, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cunha, Katia, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, De Lee, Nathan, Agathe, Victoria de Sainte, Machado, Alice Deconto, Dell'Agli, Flavia, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh, Escoffier, Stephanie, Fan, Xiaohui, Alvar, Emma Fernandez, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Feuillet, Diane, Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Galbany, Lluis, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Oehmichen, Luis Alberto Garma, Gaulme, Patrick, Gelfand, Joseph, Gil-Marin, Hector, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gueguen, Alain, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Patrick, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Hernandez, Jesus, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon, Hou, Jiamin, Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hunt, Jason A. S., Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Angel, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jonsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Khan, Fahim Sakil, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick IV, Charles C., Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young-Bae, Li, Hongyu, Li, Cheng, Lian, Jianhui, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Mackereth, J. Ted, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Majewski, Steven, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Mariappan, Vivek, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McDermid, Richard M., McGreer, Ian D., Melendez, Matthew, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Muller-Sanchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, O'Connell, Julia, Oelkers, Ryan James, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Ortiz, Erik Aquino, Osorio, Yeisson, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Hsi-An, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Barbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogerio, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Torres, Sergio Rodriguez, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Ruiz, Jose, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Almeida, Jorge Sanchez, Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Rojas, Felipe Antonio Santana, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Edward, Schlegel, David, Schneider, Donald P., Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Shen, Shiyin, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Simon, Joshua D., Skrutskie, Mike, Slosar, Anze, Smethurst, Rebecca, Smith, Verne, Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souter, Barbara J., Souto, Diogo, Spindler, Ashley, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy, Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Talbot, Michael S., Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thaker, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Urry, Meg, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Abolfathi, Bela, Aguado, D. S., Aguilar, Gabriela, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Ananna, Tonima Tasnim, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Anguiano, Borja, Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Ata, Metin, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bastien, Fabienne, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Bernardi, Mariangela, Bershady, Matthew A., Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Mederic, Borissova, Jura, Bovy, Jo, Diaz, Christian Andres Bradna, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Canas, Caleb I., Cano-Diaz, Mariana, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Casey, Andrew R., Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, da Costa, Luiz, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cunha, Katia, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, De Lee, Nathan, Agathe, Victoria de Sainte, Machado, Alice Deconto, Dell'Agli, Flavia, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh, Escoffier, Stephanie, Fan, Xiaohui, Alvar, Emma Fernandez, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Feuillet, Diane, Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Galbany, Lluis, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Oehmichen, Luis Alberto Garma, Gaulme, Patrick, Gelfand, Joseph, Gil-Marin, Hector, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gueguen, Alain, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Patrick, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Hernandez, Jesus, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon, Hou, Jiamin, Hsieh, Bau-Ching, Hunt, Jason A. S., Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Angel, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jonsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Khan, Fahim Sakil, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick IV, Charles C., Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young-Bae, Li, Hongyu, Li, Cheng, Lian, Jianhui, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Mackereth, J. Ted, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Majewski, Steven, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Mariappan, Vivek, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McDermid, Richard M., McGreer, Ian D., Melendez, Matthew, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Muller-Sanchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, O'Connell, Julia, Oelkers, Ryan James, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Ortiz, Erik Aquino, Osorio, Yeisson, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Hsi-An, Pan, Kaike, Parikh, Taniya, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Barbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogerio, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Torres, Sergio Rodriguez, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Ruiz, Jose, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Almeida, Jorge Sanchez, Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Rojas, Felipe Antonio Santana, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Edward, Schlegel, David, Schneider, Donald P., Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Shen, Shiyin, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Simon, Joshua D., Skrutskie, Mike, Slosar, Anze, Smethurst, Rebecca, Smith, Verne, Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souter, Barbara J., Souto, Diogo, Spindler, Ashley, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy, Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Talbot, Michael S., Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thaker, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Urry, Meg, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V., Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected)
Published: 2017
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5. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, Bosch, Remco van den, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, da Costa, Luiz, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A. C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Axel, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleks, Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D. A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. 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Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially-resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median redshift of z = 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between redshifts z = 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGN and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in July 2016., Comment: Published in Astronomical Journal
Published: 2017
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6. The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: SDSS Collaboration, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Diaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Du, Cheng, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcon-Barroso, Jesus, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. 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G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Marin, Hector Gil, Gillespie, Bruce, Girardi, Leo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Hector J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Li, Cheng, Li, Ran, Li, Chen, Li, Niu, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio-Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Mallmann, Nicolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O'Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogerio, Riffel, Rogemar A., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaise S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schoenrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: TDSS and SPIDERS. This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13), which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSS data releases, is inclusive of previously released data. DR13 makes publicly available 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA, the first data released from this survey. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing SEQUELS. In addition to targeting galaxies and quasars, SEQUELS also targeted variability-selected objects from TDSS and X-ray selected objects from SPIDERS. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification. DR13 releases new reductions of the APOGEE-1 data from SDSS-III, with abundances of elements not previously included and improved stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. For the SDSS imaging data, DR13 provides new, more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Several value-added catalogs are being released in tandem with DR13, in particular target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS, and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE. This paper describes the location and format of the data now publicly available, as well as providing references to the important technical papers that describe the targeting, observing, and data reduction. The SDSS website, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials and examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6-year operations of SDSS-IV., Comment: Full information on DR13 available at http://www.sdss.org. Comments welcome to spokesperson@sdss.org. To be published in ApJS
Published: 2016
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7. The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: SDSS Collaboration, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Diaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Du, Cheng, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcon-Barroso, Jesus, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Marin, Hector Gil, Gillespie, Bruce, Girardi, Leo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Hector J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Li, Cheng, Li, Ran, Li, Chen, Li, Niu, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio-Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Mallmann, Nicolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O'Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogerio, Riffel, Rogemar A., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaise S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schoenrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, SDSS Collaboration, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolas G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Diaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz, Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson Jr., James W., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de la Macorra, Axel, de la Torre, Sylvain, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothee, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, Du, Cheng, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcon-Barroso, Jesus, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Marin, Hector Gil, Gillespie, Bruce, Girardi, Leo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Hector J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Li, Cheng, Li, Ran, Li, Chen, Li, Niu, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio-Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Mallmann, Nicolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O'Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogerio, Riffel, Rogemar A., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaise S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Roman-Zuniga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R., Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schoenrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Bosch, Remco van den, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: TDSS and SPIDERS. This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13), which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSS data releases, is inclusive of previously released data. DR13 makes publicly available 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA, the first data released from this survey. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing SEQUELS. In addition to targeting galaxies and quasars, SEQUELS also targeted variability-selected objects from TDSS and X-ray selected objects from SPIDERS. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification. DR13 releases new reductions of the APOGEE-1 data from SDSS-III, with abundances of elements not previously included and improved stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. For the SDSS imaging data, DR13 provides new, more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Several value-added catalogs are being released in tandem with DR13, in particular target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS, and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE. This paper describes the location and format of the data now publicly available, as well as providing references to the important technical papers that describe the targeting, observing, and data reduction. The SDSS website, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials and examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6-year operations of SDSS-IV., Comment: Full information on DR13 available at http://www.sdss.org. Comments welcome to spokesperson@sdss.org. To be published in ApJS
Published: 2016
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8. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

Author: Majewski, Steven R., Schiavon, Ricardo P., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Barkhouser, Robert, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blank, Basil, Brunner, Sophia, Burton, Adam, Carrera, Ricardo, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Cunha, Katia, Epstein, Courtney, Fitzgerald, Greg, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Hearty, Fred R., Henderson, Chuck, Holtzman, Jon A., Johnson, Jennifer A., Lam, Charles R., Lawler, James E., Maseman, Paul, Meszaros, Szabolcs, Nelson, Matthew, Nguyen, Duy Coung, Nidever, David L., Pinsonneault, Marc, Shetrone, Matthew, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Stolberg, Todd, Skrutskie, Michael F., Walker, Eric, Wilson, John C., Zasowski, Gail, Anders, Friedrich, Basu, Sarbani, Beland, Stephane, Blanton, Michael R., Bovy, Jo, Brownstein, Joel R., Carlberg, Joleen, Chaplin, William, Chiappini, Cristina, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne, Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Galbraith-Frew, Jessica, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Hernandez, D. Anibal, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Leo, Gunn, James E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hayden, Michael R., Hekker, Saskia, Ivans, Inese, Kinemuchi, Karen, Klaene, Mark, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Mathur, Savita, Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Robin, A. C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio, Schultheis, Matthias, Serenelli, Aldo M., Shane, Neville, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Thompson, Benjamin, Troup, Nicholas W., Weinberg, David H., Zamora, Olga, Majewski, Steven R., Schiavon, Ricardo P., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Barkhouser, Robert, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blank, Basil, Brunner, Sophia, Burton, Adam, Carrera, Ricardo, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Cunha, Katia, Epstein, Courtney, Fitzgerald, Greg, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Hearty, Fred R., Henderson, Chuck, Holtzman, Jon A., Johnson, Jennifer A., Lam, Charles R., Lawler, James E., Maseman, Paul, Meszaros, Szabolcs, Nelson, Matthew, Nguyen, Duy Coung, Nidever, David L., Pinsonneault, Marc, Shetrone, Matthew, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Stolberg, Todd, Skrutskie, Michael F., Walker, Eric, Wilson, John C., Zasowski, Gail, Anders, Friedrich, Basu, Sarbani, Beland, Stephane, Blanton, Michael R., Bovy, Jo, Brownstein, Joel R., Carlberg, Joleen, Chaplin, William, Chiappini, Cristina, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne, Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Galbraith-Frew, Jessica, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Hernandez, D. Anibal, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Leo, Gunn, James E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hayden, Michael R., Hekker, Saskia, Ivans, Inese, Kinemuchi, Karen, Klaene, Mark, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Mathur, Savita, Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Robin, A. C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio, Schultheis, Matthias, Serenelli, Aldo M., Shane, Neville, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Thompson, Benjamin, Troup, Nicholas W., Weinberg, David H., and Zamora, Olga
Abstract: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of the Milky Way. After a three year observing campaign on the Sloan 2.5-m Telescope, APOGEE has collected a half million high resolution (R~22,500), high S/N (>100), infrared (1.51-1.70 microns) spectra for 146,000 stars, with time series information via repeat visits to most of these stars. This paper describes the motivations for the survey and its overall design---hardware, field placement, target selection, operations---and gives an overview of these aspects as well as the data reduction, analysis and products. An index is also given to the complement of technical papers that describe various critical survey components in detail. Finally, we discuss the achieved survey performance and illustrate the variety of potential uses of the data products by way of a number of science demonstrations, which span from time series analysis of stellar spectral variations and radial velocity variations from stellar companions, to spatial maps of kinematics, metallicity and abundance patterns across the Galaxy and as a function of age, to new views of the interstellar medium, the chemistry of star clusters, and the discovery of rare stellar species. As part of SDSS-III Data Release 12, all of the APOGEE data products are now publicly available., Comment: Submitted to The Astronomical Journal: 50 pages, including 38 figures, 4 tables, and 5 appendices
Published: 2015
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9. The SDSS-IV in 2014: A Demographic Snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the US or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the IAU (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. Yet, more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and public outreach. The CPWS plans to use these initial data to establish a baseline for tracking demographics over time as we work to assess and improve the climate of SDSS-IV., Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in PASP
Published: 2015
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10. The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Author: Alam, Shadab, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, F., Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bautista, Julian E., Beaton, Rachael L., Beers, Timothy C., Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Bradley, A. Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, D. E., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cai, Zheng, Capozzi, Diego, Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yen-Chi, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Clerc, Nicolas, Comparat, Johan, Covey, Kevin, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Da Rio, Nicola, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia, Dwelly, Tom, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Finoguenov, Alexis, Flaherty, Kevin, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foster, Jonathan, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Grieb, Jan Niklas, Grieves, Nolan, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Fred R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koenig, Xavier P., Lam, Charles R., Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Licquia, Timothy C., Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., López-Corredoira, Martín, Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Mao, Qingqing, Maraston, Claudia, Marchwinski, Robert C., Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Martig, Marie, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Menzel, Marie-Luise, Merloni, Andrea, Mészáros, Szabolcs, Miller, Adam A., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., More, Surhud, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam D., Newman, Jeffrey A., Neyrinck, Mark, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Audrey E., Oravetz, Daniel J., Osumi, Keisuke, Owen, Russell, Padgett, Deborah L., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Park, Changbom, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pellejero-Ibanez, M., Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Reid, Beth A., Rich, James, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Rodríguez-Rottes, Sergio, Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John J., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Samushia, Lado, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shane, Neville, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobreira, Flávia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tan, Jonathan C., Tayar, Jamie, Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose A., Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zakamska, Nadia L., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Guangtun, Zou, Hu, Alam, Shadab, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, F., Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bautista, Julian E., Beaton, Rachael L., Beers, Timothy C., Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Bradley, A. Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, D. E., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cai, Zheng, Capozzi, Diego, Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yen-Chi, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Clerc, Nicolas, Comparat, Johan, Covey, Kevin, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Da Rio, Nicola, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia, Dwelly, Tom, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Finoguenov, Alexis, Flaherty, Kevin, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foster, Jonathan, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Grieb, Jan Niklas, Grieves, Nolan, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Fred R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koenig, Xavier P., Lam, Charles R., Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Licquia, Timothy C., Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., López-Corredoira, Martín, Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Mao, Qingqing, Maraston, Claudia, Marchwinski, Robert C., Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Martig, Marie, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Menzel, Marie-Luise, Merloni, Andrea, Mészáros, Szabolcs, Miller, Adam A., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., More, Surhud, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam D., Newman, Jeffrey A., Neyrinck, Mark, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Audrey E., Oravetz, Daniel J., Osumi, Keisuke, Owen, Russell, Padgett, Deborah L., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Park, Changbom, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pellejero-Ibanez, M., Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Reid, Beth A., Rich, James, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Rodríguez-Rottes, Sergio, Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John J., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Samushia, Lado, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shane, Neville, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobreira, Flávia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tan, Jonathan C., Tayar, Jamie, Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose A., Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zakamska, Nadia L., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 sq. deg of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-Object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 2350 sq. deg of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 sq. deg; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5,513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra., Comment: DR12 data are available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr12. 30 pages. 11 figures. Accepted to ApJS
Published: 2015
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11. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

Author: Majewski, Steven R., Schiavon, Ricardo P., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Barkhouser, Robert, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blank, Basil, Brunner, Sophia, Burton, Adam, Carrera, Ricardo, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Cunha, Katia, Epstein, Courtney, Fitzgerald, Greg, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Hearty, Fred R., Henderson, Chuck, Holtzman, Jon A., Johnson, Jennifer A., Lam, Charles R., Lawler, James E., Maseman, Paul, Meszaros, Szabolcs, Nelson, Matthew, Nguyen, Duy Coung, Nidever, David L., Pinsonneault, Marc, Shetrone, Matthew, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Stolberg, Todd, Skrutskie, Michael F., Walker, Eric, Wilson, John C., Zasowski, Gail, Anders, Friedrich, Basu, Sarbani, Beland, Stephane, Blanton, Michael R., Bovy, Jo, Brownstein, Joel R., Carlberg, Joleen, Chaplin, William, Chiappini, Cristina, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne, Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Galbraith-Frew, Jessica, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Hernandez, D. Anibal, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Leo, Gunn, James E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hayden, Michael R., Hekker, Saskia, Ivans, Inese, Kinemuchi, Karen, Klaene, Mark, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Mathur, Savita, Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Robin, A. C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio, Schultheis, Matthias, Serenelli, Aldo M., Shane, Neville, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Thompson, Benjamin, Troup, Nicholas W., Weinberg, David H., Zamora, Olga, Majewski, Steven R., Schiavon, Ricardo P., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Barkhouser, Robert, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blank, Basil, Brunner, Sophia, Burton, Adam, Carrera, Ricardo, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Cunha, Katia, Epstein, Courtney, Fitzgerald, Greg, Perez, Ana E. Garcia, Hearty, Fred R., Henderson, Chuck, Holtzman, Jon A., Johnson, Jennifer A., Lam, Charles R., Lawler, James E., Maseman, Paul, Meszaros, Szabolcs, Nelson, Matthew, Nguyen, Duy Coung, Nidever, David L., Pinsonneault, Marc, Shetrone, Matthew, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Stolberg, Todd, Skrutskie, Michael F., Walker, Eric, Wilson, John C., Zasowski, Gail, Anders, Friedrich, Basu, Sarbani, Beland, Stephane, Blanton, Michael R., Bovy, Jo, Brownstein, Joel R., Carlberg, Joleen, Chaplin, William, Chiappini, Cristina, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne, Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Galbraith-Frew, Jessica, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Hernandez, D. Anibal, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Leo, Gunn, James E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hayden, Michael R., Hekker, Saskia, Ivans, Inese, Kinemuchi, Karen, Klaene, Mark, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Mathur, Savita, Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Robin, A. C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio, Schultheis, Matthias, Serenelli, Aldo M., Shane, Neville, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Thompson, Benjamin, Troup, Nicholas W., Weinberg, David H., and Zamora, Olga
Abstract: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of the Milky Way. After a three year observing campaign on the Sloan 2.5-m Telescope, APOGEE has collected a half million high resolution (R~22,500), high S/N (>100), infrared (1.51-1.70 microns) spectra for 146,000 stars, with time series information via repeat visits to most of these stars. This paper describes the motivations for the survey and its overall design---hardware, field placement, target selection, operations---and gives an overview of these aspects as well as the data reduction, analysis and products. An index is also given to the complement of technical papers that describe various critical survey components in detail. Finally, we discuss the achieved survey performance and illustrate the variety of potential uses of the data products by way of a number of science demonstrations, which span from time series analysis of stellar spectral variations and radial velocity variations from stellar companions, to spatial maps of kinematics, metallicity and abundance patterns across the Galaxy and as a function of age, to new views of the interstellar medium, the chemistry of star clusters, and the discovery of rare stellar species. As part of SDSS-III Data Release 12, all of the APOGEE data products are now publicly available., Comment: Submitted to The Astronomical Journal: 50 pages, including 38 figures, 4 tables, and 5 appendices
Published: 2015
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12. The SDSS-IV in 2014: A Demographic Snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the US or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the IAU (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. Yet, more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and public outreach. The CPWS plans to use these initial data to establish a baseline for tracking demographics over time as we work to assess and improve the climate of SDSS-IV., Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in PASP
Published: 2015
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13. The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Author: Alam, Shadab, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, F., Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bautista, Julian E., Beaton, Rachael L., Beers, Timothy C., Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Bradley, A. Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, D. E., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cai, Zheng, Capozzi, Diego, Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yen-Chi, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Clerc, Nicolas, Comparat, Johan, Covey, Kevin, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Da Rio, Nicola, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia, Dwelly, Tom, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Finoguenov, Alexis, Flaherty, Kevin, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foster, Jonathan, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Grieb, Jan Niklas, Grieves, Nolan, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Fred R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koenig, Xavier P., Lam, Charles R., Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Licquia, Timothy C., Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., López-Corredoira, Martín, Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Mao, Qingqing, Maraston, Claudia, Marchwinski, Robert C., Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Martig, Marie, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Menzel, Marie-Luise, Merloni, Andrea, Mészáros, Szabolcs, Miller, Adam A., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., More, Surhud, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam D., Newman, Jeffrey A., Neyrinck, Mark, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Audrey E., Oravetz, Daniel J., Osumi, Keisuke, Owen, Russell, Padgett, Deborah L., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Park, Changbom, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pellejero-Ibanez, M., Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Reid, Beth A., Rich, James, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Rodríguez-Rottes, Sergio, Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John J., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Samushia, Lado, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shane, Neville, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobreira, Flávia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tan, Jonathan C., Tayar, Jamie, Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose A., Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zakamska, Nadia L., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Guangtun, Zou, Hu, Alam, Shadab, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, F., Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett H., Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bautista, Julian E., Beaton, Rachael L., Beers, Timothy C., Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Bradley, A. Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, D. E., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cai, Zheng, Capozzi, Diego, Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yen-Chi, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Clerc, Nicolas, Comparat, Johan, Covey, Kevin, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Da Rio, Nicola, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia, Dwelly, Tom, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Finoguenov, Alexis, Flaherty, Kevin, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foster, Jonathan, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Grieb, Jan Niklas, Grieves, Nolan, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Fred R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koenig, Xavier P., Lam, Charles R., Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Licquia, Timothy C., Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., López-Corredoira, Martín, Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Mao, Qingqing, Maraston, Claudia, Marchwinski, Robert C., Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Martig, Marie, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Menzel, Marie-Luise, Merloni, Andrea, Mészáros, Szabolcs, Miller, Adam A., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., More, Surhud, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam D., Newman, Jeffrey A., Neyrinck, Mark, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Audrey E., Oravetz, Daniel J., Osumi, Keisuke, Owen, Russell, Padgett, Deborah L., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Park, Changbom, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pellejero-Ibanez, M., Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Reid, Beth A., Rich, James, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Rodríguez-Rottes, Sergio, Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John J., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Samushia, Lado, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shane, Neville, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobreira, Flávia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Swanson, Molly E. C., Tan, Jonathan C., Tayar, Jamie, Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose A., Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zakamska, Nadia L., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 sq. deg of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-Object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 2350 sq. deg of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 sq. deg; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5,513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra., Comment: DR12 data are available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr12. 30 pages. 11 figures. Accepted to ApJS
Published: 2015
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14. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, and Zhu, Guangtun
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees., Comment: 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names
Published: 2013
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15. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, and Zhu, Guangtun
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees., Comment: 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names
Published: 2013
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16. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zinn, Joel C.
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff<5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., Comment: 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9
Published: 2012
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17. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zinn, Joel C.
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff<5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., Comment: 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9
Published: 2012
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18. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

Author: collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg^2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Evolution (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameters pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high metallicity stars., Comment: Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version)
Published: 2011
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19. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z<0.7 and at z~2.5. SEGUE-2, which is now completed, measured medium-resolution (R=1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE will obtain high-resolution (R~30,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51-1.70 micron) spectra of 10^5 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. MARVELS will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m/s, ~24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. (Abridged), Comment: Revised to version published in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2011
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20. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

Author: collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg^2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Evolution (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameters pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high metallicity stars., Comment: Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version)
Published: 2011
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21. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z<0.7 and at z~2.5. SEGUE-2, which is now completed, measured medium-resolution (R=1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE will obtain high-resolution (R~30,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51-1.70 micron) spectra of 10^5 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. MARVELS will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m/s, ~24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. (Abridged), Comment: Revised to version published in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2011
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22. Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

Author: Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Andrew J. S., Knapp, Gillian R., Nichol, Robert C., Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Padmanabhan, Jeremiah, Percival, Will J., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Scoccimarro, Roman, Seljak, Uroš, Seo, Hee-Jong, Swanson, Molly, Szalay, Alexander S., Vogeley, Michael S., Yoo, Jaiyul, Zehavi, Kevork, Abazajian, Kevork, Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., Bassett, Bruce, Berlind, Andreas, Brinkmann, Jon, Budavari, Tamás, Castander, Francisco, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Douglas, Doi, Mamoru, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Gillespie, Bruce, Glazebrook, Karl, Hennessey, Gregory S., Hogg, David W., Ivezić, Željko, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnston, David, Kent, Stephen, Lamb, Donald Q., Lee, Brian C., Lin, Huan, Loveday, Jon, Lupton, Robert H., Munn, Jeffrey A., Park, Changbom, Peoples, John, Pier, Jeffrey R., Pope, Adrian, Richmond, Michael, Rockosi, Constance, Scranton, Ryan, Sheth, Ravi K., Stebbins, Albert, Stoughton, Christopher, Szapudi, István, Tucker, Douglas L., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Yanny, Brian, York, Donald G., Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Andrew J. S., Knapp, Gillian R., Nichol, Robert C., Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Padmanabhan, Jeremiah, Percival, Will J., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Scoccimarro, Roman, Seljak, Uroš, Seo, Hee-Jong, Swanson, Molly, Szalay, Alexander S., Vogeley, Michael S., Yoo, Jaiyul, Zehavi, Kevork, Abazajian, Kevork, Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., Bassett, Bruce, Berlind, Andreas, Brinkmann, Jon, Budavari, Tamás, Castander, Francisco, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Douglas, Doi, Mamoru, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Gillespie, Bruce, Glazebrook, Karl, Hennessey, Gregory S., Hogg, David W., Ivezić, Željko, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnston, David, Kent, Stephen, Lamb, Donald Q., Lee, Brian C., Lin, Huan, Loveday, Jon, Lupton, Robert H., Munn, Jeffrey A., Park, Changbom, Peoples, John, Pier, Jeffrey R., Pope, Adrian, Richmond, Michael, Rockosi, Constance, Scranton, Ryan, Sheth, Ravi K., Stebbins, Albert, Stoughton, Christopher, Szapudi, István, Tucker, Douglas L., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Yanny, Brian, and York, Donald G.
Abstract: We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological parameters from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). We employ a matrix-based power spectrum estimation method using Pseudo-Karhunen-Loève eigenmodes, producing uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements in 20 k-bands of both the clustering power and its anisotropy due to redshift-space distortions, with narrow and well-behaved window functions in the range 0.01h/Mpc
Published: 2006

23. Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

Author: Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Andrew J. S., Knapp, Gillian R., Nichol, Robert C., Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Padmanabhan, Jeremiah, Percival, Will J., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Scoccimarro, Roman, Seljak, Uroš, Seo, Hee-Jong, Swanson, Molly, Szalay, Alexander S., Vogeley, Michael S., Yoo, Jaiyul, Zehavi, Kevork, Abazajian, Kevork, Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., Bassett, Bruce, Berlind, Andreas, Brinkmann, Jon, Budavari, Tamás, Castander, Francisco, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Douglas, Doi, Mamoru, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Gillespie, Bruce, Glazebrook, Karl, Hennessey, Gregory S., Hogg, David W., Ivezić, Željko, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnston, David, Kent, Stephen, Lamb, Donald Q., Lee, Brian C., Lin, Huan, Loveday, Jon, Lupton, Robert H., Munn, Jeffrey A., Park, Changbom, Peoples, John, Pier, Jeffrey R., Pope, Adrian, Richmond, Michael, Rockosi, Constance, Scranton, Ryan, Sheth, Ravi K., Stebbins, Albert, Stoughton, Christopher, Szapudi, István, Tucker, Douglas L., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Yanny, Brian, York, Donald G., Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Andrew J. S., Knapp, Gillian R., Nichol, Robert C., Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Padmanabhan, Jeremiah, Percival, Will J., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Scoccimarro, Roman, Seljak, Uroš, Seo, Hee-Jong, Swanson, Molly, Szalay, Alexander S., Vogeley, Michael S., Yoo, Jaiyul, Zehavi, Kevork, Abazajian, Kevork, Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., Bassett, Bruce, Berlind, Andreas, Brinkmann, Jon, Budavari, Tamás, Castander, Francisco, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Douglas, Doi, Mamoru, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Gillespie, Bruce, Glazebrook, Karl, Hennessey, Gregory S., Hogg, David W., Ivezić, Željko, Jain, Bhuvnesh, Johnston, David, Kent, Stephen, Lamb, Donald Q., Lee, Brian C., Lin, Huan, Loveday, Jon, Lupton, Robert H., Munn, Jeffrey A., Park, Changbom, Peoples, John, Pier, Jeffrey R., Pope, Adrian, Richmond, Michael, Rockosi, Constance, Scranton, Ryan, Sheth, Ravi K., Stebbins, Albert, Stoughton, Christopher, Szapudi, István, Tucker, Douglas L., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Yanny, Brian, and York, Donald G.
Abstract: We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological parameters from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). We employ a matrix-based power spectrum estimation method using Pseudo-Karhunen-Loève eigenmodes, producing uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements in 20 k-bands of both the clustering power and its anisotropy due to redshift-space distortions, with narrow and well-behaved window functions in the range 0.01h/Mpc
Published: 2006

24. The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III

Author: Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., González Hernández, Jonay I., Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Vargas Magaña, M., Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., González Hernández, Jonay I., Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Vargas Magaña, M., Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Lyα forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high-metallicity stars.

25. SDSS-III: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milky Way, and extra-solar planetary systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brewington, Howard J., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chang, Liang, Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, Porto de Mello, Gustavo F., de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Dutra Ferreira, Leticia, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., García Pérez, Ana Elia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Léo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hennawi, Joseph F., González Hernández, Jonay I., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Mena Requejo, Olga, Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reid, I. Neill, Reyle, Celine, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brewington, Howard J., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chang, Liang, Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, Porto de Mello, Gustavo F., de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Dutra Ferreira, Leticia, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., García Pérez, Ana Elia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Léo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hennawi, Joseph F., González Hernández, Jonay I., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Mena Requejo, Olga, Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reid, I. Neill, Reyle, Celine, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS Data Release 8 (DR8), which was made public in 2011 January and includes SDSS-I and SDSS-II images and spectra reprocessed with the latest pipelines and calibrations produced for the SDSS-III investigations. This paper presents an overview of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lyα forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature of large-scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z < 0.7 and at z ≈ 2.5. SEGUE-2, an already completed SDSS-III survey that is the continuation of the SDSS-II Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), measured medium-resolution (R = λ/Δλ ≈ 1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, will obtain high-resolution (R ≈ 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ≥ 100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51μm < λ < 1.70μm) spectra of 105 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. The Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet La

26. Erratum: “The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III” (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)

Author: Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Jordan Raddick, M., Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Jordan Raddick, M., Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: Section 3.5 of Aihara et al. (2011) described various sources of systematic error in the astrometry of the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition to these sources of error, there is an additional and more serious error, which introduces a large systematic shift in the astrometry over a large area around the north celestial pole. The region has irregular boundaries but in places extends as far south as declination δ ≈ 41◦. The sense of the shift is that the positions of all sources in the affected area are offset by roughly 250 mas in a northwest direction. We have updated the SDSS online documentation to reflect these errors, and to provide detailed quality information for each SDSS field.

27. The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey (SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data, improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13 provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes the location and format of the data and provides references to important technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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28. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, Zou, Hu, Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July.
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29. The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international scientific collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a healthy scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a voluntary demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV, which began observations in July 2014. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the United States or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Approximately 65% were faculty or research scientists and 31% were postdocs or graduate students. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the International Astronomical Union (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership in the collaboration. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. That said, it is clear that more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and publ
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30. The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey (SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data, improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13 provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes the location and format of the data and provides references to important technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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31. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, Zou, Hu, Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July.
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32. The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. 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Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey (SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data, improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13 provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes the location and format of the data and provides references to important technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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33. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. 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Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July.
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34. The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international scientific collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a healthy scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a voluntary demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV, which began observations in July 2014. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the United States or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Approximately 65% were faculty or research scientists and 31% were postdocs or graduate students. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the International Astronomical Union (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership in the collaboration. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. That said, it is clear that more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and publ
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35. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, Zou, Hu, Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ilha, Gabriele da Silva, Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jackson, Kelly, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jönsson, Henrik, Jullo, Eric, Kamble, Vikrant, Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco-Shu, Klaene, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Law, David R., Lazarz, Daniel, Lee, Youngbae, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Liang, Fu-Heng, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Lian, Jianhui, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Yen-Ting, Lis, Sara Bertran de, Liu, Chao, Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, MacDonald, Nicholas K., Machado, Alice Deconto, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, Arturo, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Masseron, Thomas, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDermid, Richard M., McGrath, Brianne, McGreer, Ian D., Medina Peña, Nicolás, Melendez, Matthew, Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszaros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Minchev, Ivan, Minniti, Dante, Miyaji, Takamitsu, More, Surhud, Mulchaey, John, Müller-Sánchez, Francisco, Muna, Demitri, Munoz, Ricardo R., Myers, Adam D., Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Nascimento, Janaina Correa do, Negrete, Alenka, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, Ntelis, Pierros, O’Connell, Julia E., Oelkers, Ryan J., Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pace, Zach, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palicio, Pedro Alonso, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parikh, Taniya, Pâris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patten, Alim Y., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc, Pisani, Alice, Poleski, Radosław, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade, Raddick, M. Jordan, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Richstein, Hannah, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Roman-Lopes, A., Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Rosado, Margarita, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Rykoff, Eli S., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sánchez, Ariel G., Aguado, D.S., Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Santana, Felipe A., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva, Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Schuster, William J., Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shao, Zhengyi, Shen, Shiyin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Simon, Joshua D., Skinner, Danielle, Skrutskie, M.F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan, Stauffer, Fritz, Steinmetz, Matthias, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suárez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Suzuki, Nao, Szigeti, Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Teske, Johanna, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tissera, Patricia, Tojeiro, Rita, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Torre, Sylvain de la, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas W., Valenzuela, Octavio, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Vargas-González, Jaime, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wild, Vivienne, Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W.lM., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yèche, Christophe, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zarrouk, Pauline, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun B., Zoccali, Manuela, and Zou, Hu
Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July.
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36. The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., and Zou, Hu
Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey (SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data, improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13 provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes the location and format of the data and provides references to important technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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37. The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international scientific collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a healthy scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a voluntary demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV, which began observations in July 2014. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the United States or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Approximately 65% were faculty or research scientists and 31% were postdocs or graduate students. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the International Astronomical Union (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership in the collaboration. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. That said, it is clear that more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and publ
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38. The 13th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author: Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. Cano, Cappellari, Michele, Carrera, Ricardo, Chen, Yanping, Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comerford, Julia M., Comparat, Johan, Correa do Nascimento, Janaina, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert, Cunha, Katia, Darling, Jeremy, Davidson, James W., Dawson, Kyle, Da Costa, Luiz, Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele, Machado, Alice Deconto, Delubac, Timothée, De Lee, Nathan, De la Macorra, Axel, De la Torre, Sylvain, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Donor, John, Downes, Juan Jose, Drory, Niv, Du, Cheng, Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Dwelly, Tom, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elsworth, Yvonne P., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Michael, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Falcón-Barroso, Jesús, Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Fernandez-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J. G., Feuillet, Diane, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter, Fu, Hai, Gao, Yang, Garcia, Rafael A., Garcia-Dias, R., Garcia-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. Garcia, Gaulme, Patrick, Ge, Junqiang, Geisler, Douglas, Gillespie, Bruce, Marin, Hector Gil, Girardi, Léo, Goddard, Daniel, Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul, Grier, Catherine J., Grier, Thomas, Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hall, Matt, Harding, Paul, Harley, R. E., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne, Hayes, Christian R., Hearty, Fred, Hekker, Saskia, Toledo, Hector Hernandez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Holtzman, Jon A., Holzer, Parker H., Hu, Jian, Huber, Daniel, Hutchinson, Timothy Alan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivory, KeShawn, Jaehnig, Kurt, Jensen, Trey W., Johnson, Jennifer A., Jones, Amy, Jullo, Eric, Kallinger, T., Kinemuchi, Karen, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A., Lacerna, Ivan, Lane, Richard R., Lang, Dustin, Laurent, Pierre, Law, David R., Leauthaud, Alexie, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Li, Chen, Li, Cheng, Li, Niu, Li, Ran, Liang, Fu-Heng, Liang, Yu, Lima, Marcos, Lin, Lihwai, Lin, Lin, Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Chao, Long, Dan, Lucatello, Sara, MacDonald, Nicholas, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Mackereth, J. Ted, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba, Maiolino, Roberto, Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Olena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mallmann, Nícolas Dullius, Manchado, Arturo, Maraston, Claudia, Marques-Chaves, Rui, Valpuesta, Inma Martinez, Masters, Karen L., Mathur, Savita, McGreer, Ian D., Merloni, Andrea, Merrifield, Michael R., Meszáros, Szabolcs, Meza, Andres, Miglio, Andrea, Minchev, Ivan, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Mosser, Benoit, Muna, Demitri, Myers, Adam, Nair, Preethi, Nandra, Kirpal, Ness, Melissa, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Nitschelm, Christian, O’Connell, Julia, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel J., Pace, Zachary, Padilla, Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Peacock, John A., Peirani, Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Penny, Samantha, Percival, Will J., Percival, Jeffrey W., Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew, Pinsonneault, Marc H., Pisani, Alice, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Price-Jones, Natalie, Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Raichoor, Anand, Rembold, Sandro Barboza, Reyna, A. M., Rich, James, Richstein, Hannah, Ridl, Jethro, Riffel, Rogemar A., Riffel, Rogério, Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rockosi, Constance M., Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio, Rodrigues, Thaíse S., Roe, Natalie, Lopes, A. Roman, Román-Zúñiga, Carlos, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Ruan, John, Ruggeri, Rossana, Runnoe, Jessie C., Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador, Salvato, Mara, Sanchez, Sebastian F., Sanchez, Ariel G., Sanchez-Gallego, José R., Santiago, Basílio Xavier, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schimoia, Jaderson S., Schlafly, Eddie, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Schönrich, Ralph, Schultheis, Mathias, Schwope, Axel, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serenelli, Aldo, Sesar, Branimir, Shao, Zhengyi, Shetrone, Matthew, Shull, Michael, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Michael, Smith, Verne V., Sobeck, Jennifer, Somers, Garrett, Souto, Diogo, Stark, David V., Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Stello, Dennis, Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Stringfellow, Guy S., Suarez, Genaro, Sun, Jing, Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, Tang, Baitian, Tao, Charling, Tayar, Jamie, Tembe, Mita, Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy, Troup, Nicholas, Trump, Jonathan R., Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo, Valenzuela, O., Van den Bosch, Remco, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, Villanova, Sandro, Vivek, M., Vogt, Nicole, Wake, David, Walterbos, Rene, Wang, Yuting, Wang, Enci, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Weinberg, David H., Westfall, Kyle B., Whelan, David G., Wilcots, Eric, Wild, Vivienne, Williams, Rob A., Wilson, John, Wood-Vasey, W. M., Wylezalek, Dominika, Xiao, Ting, Yan, Renbin, Yang, Meng, Ybarra, Jason E., Yeche, Christophe, Yuan, Fang-Ting, Zakamska, Nadia, Zamora, Olga, Zasowski, Gail, Zhang, Kai, Zhao, Cheng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Zhi-Min, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Zou, Hu, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott, Andrews, Brett H., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barbuy, Beatriz, Barger, Kat, Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Basu, Sarbani, Bates, Dominic, Battaglia, Giuseppina, Baumgarten, Falk, Baur, Julien, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bershady, Matthew, de Lis, Sara Bertran, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Borissova, J., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William Nielsen, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho, Díaz, M. 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Abstract: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey (SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data, improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13 provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes the location and format of the data and provides references to important technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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39. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: mapping the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

Author: Blanton, Michael R., Bershady, Matthew A., Abolfathi, Bela, Albareti, Franco D., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Almeida, Andres, Alonso-García, Javier, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Andrews, Brett, Aquino-Ortíz, Erik, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez, Maria, Armengaud, Eric, Aubourg, Eric, Avila-Reese, Vladimir, Badenes, Carles, Bailey, Stephen, Barger, Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge, Bartosz, Curtis, Bates, Dominic, Baumgarten, Falk, Bautista, Julian, Beaton, Rachael, Beers, Timothy C., Belfiore, Francesco, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Bernardi, Mariangela, Beutler, Florian, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Boquien, Médéric, Borissova, Jura, van den Bosch, Remco, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, William N., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Burgasser, Adam J., Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cappellari, Michele, Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado, Carlberg, Joleen K., Rosell, Aurelio Carnero, Carrera, Ricardo, Chanover, Nancy J., Cherinka, Brian, Cheung, Edmond, Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo, Chiappini, Cristina, Choi, Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski, Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Chung, Haeun, Cirolini, Rafael Fernando, Clerc, Nicolas, Cohen, Roger E., Comparat, Johan, Costa, Luiz da, Cousinou, Marie-Claude, Covey, Kevin, Crane, Jeffrey D., Croft, Rupert A.C., Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene, Cuadra, Daniel Garrido, Cunha, Katia, Damke, Guillermo J., Darling, Jeremy, Davies, Roger, Dawson, Kyle, Macorra, Axel de la, Dell’Agli, Flavia, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Di Mille, Francesco, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Cano-Díaz, Mariana, Donor, John, Downes, Juan José, Drory, Niv, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth, Christopher J., Dwelly, Tom, Dyer, Jamie, Ebelke, Garrett, Eigenbrot, Arthur D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Emsellem, Eric, Eracleous, Mike, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Fernandez-Trincado, J.G., Feuillet, Diane K., Finoguenov, Alexis, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fredrickson, Alexander, Freischlad, Gordon, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Fuentes, Carla E., Galbany, Lluís, Garcia-Dias, R., García-Hernández, D.A., Gaulme, Patrick, Geisler, Doug, Gelfand, Joseph D., Gil-Marín, Héctor, Gillespie, Bruce A., Goddard, Daniel, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Grabowski, Kathleen, Green, Paul J., Grier, Catherine J., Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hagen, Alex, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hall, Matthew, Harding, Paul, Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Fred, Hernández, Jonay I. 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Abstract: We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratios in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGNs and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5 m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in 2016 July.
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40. The SDSS-IV in 2014: a demographic snapshot

Author: Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, Gallagher, John S., Lundgren, Britt, Kinemuchi, Karen, Zasowski, Gail, Lucatello, Sara, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Tremonti, Christy A., Myers, Adam D., Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Gillespie, Bruce, Ho, Shirley, and Gallagher, John S.
Abstract: Many astronomers now participate in large international scientific collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a healthy scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (CPWS) was formed to evaluate the demographics and gender climate within SDSS-IV, one of the largest and most geographically distributed astronomical collaborations. In April 2014, the CPWS administered a voluntary demographic survey to establish a baseline for the incipient SDSS-IV, which began observations in July 2014. We received responses from 250 participants (46% of the active membership). Half of the survey respondents were located in the United States or Canada and 30% were based in Europe. Approximately 65% were faculty or research scientists and 31% were postdocs or graduate students. Eleven percent of survey respondents considered themselves to be an ethnic minority at their current institution. Twenty-five percent of the SDSS-IV collaboration members are women, a fraction that is consistent with the US astronomical community, but substantially higher than the fraction of women in the International Astronomical Union (16%). Approximately equal fractions of men and women report holding positions of leadership in the collaboration. When binned by academic age and career level, men and women also assume leadership roles at approximately equal rates, in a way that increases steadily for both genders with increasing seniority. In this sense, SDSS-IV has been successful in recruiting leaders that are representative of the collaboration. That said, it is clear that more progress needs to be made towards achieving gender balance and increasing diversity in the field of astronomy, and there is still room for improvement in the membership and leadership of SDSS-IV. For example, at the highest level of SDSS-IV leadership, women disproportionately assume roles related to education and publ
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