TY - JOUR
T1 - The thirteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
T2 - first spectroscopic data from the SDSS-IV Survey mapping nearby galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
AU - Albareti, Franco D.
AU - Prieto, Carlos Allende
AU - Almeida, Andres
AU - Anders, Friedrich
AU - Anderson, Scott
AU - Andrews, Brett H.
AU - Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso
AU - Argudo-Fernandez, Maria
AU - Armengaud, Eric
AU - Aubourg, Eric
AU - Avila-Reese, Vladimir
AU - Badenes, Carles
AU - Bailey, Stephen
AU - Barbuy, Beatriz
AU - Barger, Kat
AU - Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge
AU - Bartosz, Curtis
AU - Basu, Sarbani
AU - Bates, Dominic
AU - Battaglia, Giuseppina
AU - Baumgarten, Falk
AU - Baur, Julien
AU - Bautista, Julian
AU - Beers, Timothy C.
AU - Belfiore, Francesco
AU - Bershady, Matthew
AU - Lis, Sara Bertran de
AU - Bird, Jonathan C.
AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry
AU - Blanc, Guillermo A.
AU - Blanton, Michael
AU - Blomqvist, Michael
AU - Bolton, Adam S.
AU - Borissova, J.
AU - Bovy, Jo
AU - Marin, Hector Gil
AU - Goddard, Daniel
AU - Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
AU - Maraston, Claudia
AU - Masters, Karen L.
AU - Nichol, Robert C.
AU - Penny, Samantha
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Pieri, Matthew
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Ruggeri, Rossana
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Westfall, Kyle B.
AU - Zhao, Gong-Bo
N1 - Full information on DR13 available at http://www.sdss.org. Comments welcome to [email protected]. Submitted to ApJS.
PY - 2017/12/8
Y1 - 2017/12/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - astro-ph.GA
KW - atalases
KW - catalogs
KW - surveys
U2 - 10.3847/1538-4365/aa8992
DO - 10.3847/1538-4365/aa8992
M3 - Article
SN - 0067-0049
VL - 233
JO - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
JF - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
IS - 2
ER -