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Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
Authors :
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. 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 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-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. 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 Zou, Hu
Publication Year :
2017
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.<br />Comment: Published in Astronomical Journal