Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

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Authors: Michael R. Blanton; Matthew A. Bershady; Bela Abolfathi; Franco D. Albareti; Carlos Allende Prieto; Andres Almeida; Javier Alonso-García; +193 Authors

Michael R. Blanton; Matthew A. Bershady; Bela Abolfathi; Franco D. Albareti; Carlos Allende Prieto; Andres Almeida; Javier Alonso-García; Friedrich Anders; Scott F. Anderson; Brett Andrews; Erik Aquino-Ortíz; Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca; Maria Argudo-Fernández; Eric Armengaud; Eric Aubourg; Vladimir Avila-Reese; Carles Badenes; Stephen Bailey; Kathleen A. Barger; Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros; Curtis Bartosz; Dominic Bates; Falk Baumgarten; Julian Bautista; Rachael Beaton; Timothy C. Beers; Francesco Belfiore; Chad F. Bender; Andreas A. Berlind; Mariangela Bernardi; Florian Beutler; Jonathan C. Bird; Dmitry Bizyaev; Guillermo A. Blanc; Michael Blomqvist; Adam S. Bolton; Médéric Boquien; Jura Borissova; Remco van den Bosch; Jo Bovy; William N. Brandt; Jonathan Brinkmann; Joel R. Brownstein; Kevin Bundy; Adam J. Burgasser; Etienne Burtin; Nicolás G. Busca; Michele Cappellari; Maria Leticia Delgado Carigi; Joleen K. Carlberg; Aurelio Carnero Rosell; Ricardo Carrera; Nancy J. Chanover; Brian Cherinka; Edmond Cheung; Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew; Cristina Chiappini; Peter Doohyun Choi; Drew Chojnowski; Chia-Hsun Chuang; Haeun Chung; Rafael Fernando Cirolini; Nicolas Clerc; Roger E. Cohen; Johan Comparat; Luiz da Costa; Marie-Claude Cousinou; Kevin Covey; Jeffrey D. Crane; Rupert A. C. Croft; Irene Cruz-Gonzalez; Daniel Garrido Cuadra; Katia Cunha; Guillermo J. Damke; Jeremy Darling; Roger Davies; Kyle Dawson; Axel de la Macorra; Flavia Dell’Agli; Nathan De Lee; Timothée Delubac; Francesco Di Mille; Aleks Diamond-Stanic; Mariana Cano-Díaz; John Donor; Juan José Downes; Niv Drory; Hélion du Mas des Bourboux; Christopher J. Duckworth; Tom Dwelly; Jamie Dyer; Garrett Ebelke; Arthur D. Eigenbrot; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Eric Emsellem; Mike Eracleous; Stephanie Escoffier; Michael L. Evans; Xiaohui Fan; Emma Fernández-Alvar; J. G. Fernandez-Trincado; Diane K. Feuillet; Alexis Finoguenov; Scott W. Fleming; Andreu Font-Ribera; Alexander Fredrickson; Gordon Freischlad; Peter M. Frinchaboy; Carla E. Fuentes; Lluís Galbany; R. Garcia-Dias; D. A. García-Hernández; Patrick Gaulme; Doug Geisler; Joseph D. Gelfand; Héctor Gil-Marín; Bruce A. Gillespie; Daniel Goddard; Violeta Gonzalez-Perez; Kathleen Grabowski; Paul J. Green; Catherine J. Grier; James E. Gunn; Hong Guo; Julien Guy; Alex Hagen; ChangHoon Hahn; Matthew Hall; Paul Harding; Sten Hasselquist; Suzanne L. Hawley; Fred Hearty; Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernández; Shirley Ho; David W. Hogg; Kelly Holley-Bockelmann; Jon A. Holtzman; Parker H. Holzer; Joseph Huehnerhoff; Timothy A. Hutchinson; Ho Seong Hwang; Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel; Gabriele da Silva Ilha; Inese I. Ivans; KeShawn Ivory; Kelly Jackson; Trey W. Jensen; Jennifer A. Johnson; Amy Jones; Henrik Jönsson; Eric Jullo; Vikrant Kamble; Karen Kinemuchi; David Kirkby; Francisco-Shu Kitaura; Mark Klaene; Gillian R. Knapp; Jean-Paul Kneib; Juna A. Kollmeier; Ivan Lacerna; Richard R. Lane; Dustin Lang; David R. Law; Daniel Lazarz; Youngbae Lee; Jean-Marc Le Goff; Fu-Heng Liang; Cheng Li; Hongyu Li; Jianhui Lian; Marcos Lima; Lihwai Lin; Yen-Ting Lin; Sara Bertran de Lis; Chao Liu; Miguel Angel C. de Icaza Lizaola; Dan Long; Sara Lucatello; Britt Lundgren; Nicholas K. MacDonald; Alice Deconto Machado; Chelsea L. MacLeod; Suvrath Mahadevan; Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia; Roberto Maiolino; Steven R. Majewski; Elena Malanushenko; Viktor Malanushenko; Arturo Manchado; Shude Mao; Claudia Maraston; Rui Marques-Chaves; Thomas Masseron; Karen L. Masters; Cameron K. McBride; Richard M. McDermid; Brianne McGrath; Ian D. McGreer; Nicolás Medina Peña; Matthew Melendez;

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

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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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GRAVITATIONAL LENSING EXPERIMENT, ddc:520, Astronomical Sciences, 5109 Space Sciences, Surveys, 5101 Astronomical Sciences (for-2020), X-RAY SURVEY, OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY, Stars general, QB Astronomy, spectrographs [Instrumentation], 5107 Particle and high energy physics (for-2020), VELOCITY EXPERIMENT RAVE, observations [Cosmology], stars: general, QC, QB, instrumentation: spectrographs, SDSS-III/APOGEE SURVEY, general [Stars], Cosmology: observations, 51 Physical Sciences (for-2020), general [stars], general [Galaxies], 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, Cosmology observations, 520, observations [cosmology], Q1 Science (General) / természettudomány általában, Stars: general, Particle and high energy physics, 5101 Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Space Sciences, 51 Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Galaxies: general, GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT, EXPLORING HALO SUBSTRUCTURE, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation: spectrographs, 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences (for), Astronomy & Astrophysics, 530, ROSAT ALL-SKY, Galaxies general, surveys, Galaxy: general, general [Galaxy], 5101 Astronomical sciences (for-2020), Science & Technology, Astronomy & Astrophysics (science-metrix), Instrumentation spectrographs, DAS, 5109 Space Sciences (for-2020), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: general, QC Physics, QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, cosmology: observations, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], DATA REDUCTION PIPELINE, general [galaxies], spectrographs [instrumentation]

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