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 z ∼ 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between 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 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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 28 |
Journal | Astronomical Journal |
Volume | 154 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Galaxy: general
- cosmology: observations
- galaxies: general
- instrumentation: spectrographs
- stars: general
- surveys
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV : Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe. / 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; 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; Lee, Nathan De; Delubac, Timothée; Mille, Francesco Di; 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; 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-Zñiga, 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. 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, Xu; Zhou, Zhi Min; Zhu, Guangtun B.; Zoccali, Manuela; Zou, Hu.
In: Astronomical Journal, Vol. 154, No. 1, 28, 07.2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV
T2 - Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
AU - Blanton, Michael R.
AU - Bershady, Matthew A.
AU - Abolfathi, Bela
AU - Albareti, Franco D.
AU - Prieto, Carlos Allende
AU - Almeida, Andres
AU - Alonso-García, Javier
AU - Anders, Friedrich
AU - Anderson, Scott F.
AU - Andrews, Brett
AU - Aquino-Ortíz, Erik
AU - Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso
AU - Argudo-Fernández, Maria
AU - Armengaud, Eric
AU - Aubourg, Eric
AU - Avila-Reese, Vladimir
AU - Badenes, Carles
AU - Bailey, Stephen
AU - Barger, Kathleen A.
AU - Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge
AU - Bartosz, Curtis
AU - Bates, Dominic
AU - Baumgarten, Falk
AU - Bautista, Julian
AU - Beaton, Rachael
AU - Beers, Timothy C.
AU - Belfiore, Francesco
AU - Bender, Chad F.
AU - Berlind, Andreas A.
AU - Bernardi, Mariangela
AU - Beutler, Florian
AU - Bird, Jonathan C.
AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry
AU - Blanc, Guillermo A.
AU - Blomqvist, Michael
AU - Bolton, Adam S.
AU - Boquien, Médéric
AU - Borissova, Jura
AU - Bosch, Remco Van Den
AU - Bovy, Jo
AU - Brandt, William N.
AU - Brinkmann, Jonathan
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Bundy, Kevin
AU - Burgasser, Adam J.
AU - Burtin, Etienne
AU - Busca, Nicolás G.
AU - Cappellari, Michele
AU - Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado
AU - Carlberg, Joleen K.
AU - Rosell, Aurelio Carnero
AU - Carrera, Ricardo
AU - Chanover, Nancy J.
AU - Cherinka, Brian
AU - Cheung, Edmond
AU - Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo
AU - Chiappini, Cristina
AU - Choi, Peter Doohyun
AU - Chojnowski, Drew
AU - Chuang, Chia Hsun
AU - Chung, Haeun
AU - Cirolini, Rafael Fernando
AU - Clerc, Nicolas
AU - Cohen, Roger E.
AU - Comparat, Johan
AU - Costa, Luiz Da
AU - Cousinou, Marie Claude
AU - Covey, Kevin
AU - Crane, Jeffrey D.
AU - Croft, Rupert A.C.
AU - Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene
AU - Cuadra, Daniel Garrido
AU - Cunha, Katia
AU - Damke, Guillermo J.
AU - Darling, Jeremy
AU - Davies, Roger
AU - Dawson, Kyle
AU - Macorra, Axel De La
AU - Dell'Agli, Flavia
AU - Lee, Nathan De
AU - Delubac, Timothée
AU - Mille, Francesco Di
AU - Diamond-Stanic, Aleks
AU - Cano-Díaz, Mariana
AU - Donor, John
AU - Downes, Juan José
AU - Drory, Niv
AU - Bourboux, Hélion Du Mas Des
AU - Duckworth, Christopher J.
AU - Dwelly, Tom
AU - Dyer, Jamie
AU - Ebelke, Garrett
AU - Eigenbrot, Arthur D.
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Emsellem, Eric
AU - Eracleous, Mike
AU - Escoffier, Stephanie
AU - Evans, Michael L.
AU - Fan, Xiaohui
AU - Fernández-Alvar, Emma
AU - Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.
AU - Feuillet, Diane K.
AU - Finoguenov, Alexis
AU - Fleming, Scott W.
AU - Font-Ribera, Andreu
AU - Fredrickson, Alexander
AU - Freischlad, Gordon
AU - Frinchaboy, Peter M.
AU - Fuentes, Carla E.
AU - Galbany, Lluís
AU - Garcia-Dias, R.
AU - García-Hernández, D. A.
AU - Gaulme, Patrick
AU - Geisler, Doug
AU - Gelfand, Joseph D.
AU - Gil-Marín, Héctor
AU - Gillespie, Bruce A.
AU - Goddard, Daniel
AU - Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
AU - Grabowski, Kathleen
AU - Green, Paul J.
AU - Grier, Catherine J.
AU - Gunn, James E.
AU - Guo, Hong
AU - Guy, Julien
AU - Hagen, Alex
AU - Hahn, Changhoon
AU - Hall, Matthew
AU - Harding, Paul
AU - Hasselquist, Sten
AU - Hawley, Suzanne L.
AU - Hearty, Fred
AU - Hernández, Jonay I.Gonzalez
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Hogg, David W.
AU - Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
AU - Holtzman, Jon A.
AU - Holzer, Parker H.
AU - Huehnerhoff, Joseph
AU - Hutchinson, Timothy A.
AU - Hwang, Ho Seong
AU - Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J.
AU - Ilha, Gabriele Da Silva
AU - Ivans, Inese I.
AU - Ivory, Keshawn
AU - Jackson, Kelly
AU - Jensen, Trey W.
AU - Johnson, Jennifer A.
AU - Jones, Amy
AU - Jönsson, Henrik
AU - Jullo, Eric
AU - Kamble, Vikrant
AU - Kinemuchi, Karen
AU - Kirkby, David
AU - Kitaura, Francisco Shu
AU - Klaene, Mark
AU - Knapp, Gillian R.
AU - Kneib, Jean Paul
AU - Kollmeier, Juna A.
AU - Lacerna, Ivan
AU - Lane, Richard R.
AU - Lang, Dustin
AU - Law, David R.
AU - Lazarz, Daniel
AU - Lee, Youngbae
AU - Goff, Jean Marc Le
AU - Liang, Fu Heng
AU - Li, Cheng
AU - Li, Hongyu
AU - Lian, Jianhui
AU - Lima, Marcos
AU - Lin, Lihwai
AU - Lin, Yen Ting
AU - Lis, Sara Bertran De
AU - Liu, Chao
AU - Lizaola, Miguel Angel C.De Icaza
AU - Long, Dan
AU - Lucatello, Sara
AU - Lundgren, Britt
AU - MacDonald, Nicholas K.
AU - Machado, Alice Deconto
AU - Macleod, Chelsea L.
AU - Mahadevan, Suvrath
AU - Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba
AU - Maiolino, Roberto
AU - Majewski, Steven R.
AU - Malanushenko, Elena
AU - Malanushenko, Viktor
AU - Manchado, Arturo
AU - Mao, Shude
AU - Maraston, Claudia
AU - Marques-Chaves, Rui
AU - Masseron, Thomas
AU - Masters, Karen L.
AU - McBride, Cameron K.
AU - McDermid, Richard M.
AU - McGrath, Brianne
AU - McGreer, Ian D.
AU - Medina Peña, Nicolás
AU - Melendez, Matthew
AU - Merloni, Andrea
AU - Merrifield, Michael R.
AU - Meszaros, Szabolcs
AU - Meza, Andres
AU - Minchev, Ivan
AU - Minniti, Dante
AU - Miyaji, Takamitsu
AU - More, Surhud
AU - Mulchaey, John
AU - Müller-Sánchez, Francisco
AU - Muna, Demitri
AU - Munoz, Ricardo R.
AU - Myers, Adam D.
AU - Nair, Preethi
AU - Nandra, Kirpal
AU - Nascimento, Janaina Correa Do
AU - Negrete, Alenka
AU - Ness, Melissa
AU - Newman, Jeffrey A.
AU - Nichol, Robert C.
AU - Nidever, David L.
AU - Nitschelm, Christian
AU - Ntelis, Pierros
AU - O'Connell, Julia E.
AU - Oelkers, Ryan J.
AU - Oravetz, Audrey
AU - Oravetz, Daniel
AU - Pace, Zach
AU - Padilla, Nelson
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Palicio, Pedro Alonso
AU - Pan, Kaike
AU - Parejko, John K.
AU - Parikh, Taniya
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Park, Changbom
AU - Patten, Alim Y.
AU - Peirani, Sebastien
AU - Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos
AU - Penny, Samantha
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Perez-Fournon, Ismael
AU - Petitjean, Patrick
AU - Pieri, Matthew M.
AU - Pinsonneault, Marc
AU - Pisani, Alice
AU - Poleski, Radosław
AU - Prada, Francisco
AU - Prakash, Abhishek
AU - Queiroz, Anna Bárbara De Andrade
AU - Raddick, M. Jordan
AU - Raichoor, Anand
AU - Rembold, Sandro Barboza
AU - Richstein, Hannah
AU - Riffel, Rogemar A.
AU - Riffel, Rogério
AU - Rix, Hans Walter
AU - Robin, Annie C.
AU - Rockosi, Constance M.
AU - Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio
AU - Roman-Lopes, A.
AU - Román-Zñiga, Carlos
AU - Rosado, Margarita
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Rossi, Graziano
AU - Ruan, John
AU - Ruggeri, Rossana
AU - Rykoff, Eli S.
AU - Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
AU - Salvato, Mara
AU - Sánchez, Ariel G.
AU - Aguado, D. S.
AU - Sánchez-Gallego, José R.
AU - Santana, Felipe A.
AU - Santiago, Basílio Xavier
AU - Sayres, Conor
AU - Schiavon, Ricardo P.
AU - Schimoia, Jaderson Da Silva
AU - Schlafly, Edward F.
AU - Schlegel, David J.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Schultheis, Mathias
AU - Schuster, William J.
AU - Schwope, Axel
AU - Seo, Hee Jong
AU - Shao, Zhengyi
AU - Shen, Shiyin
AU - Shetrone, Matthew
AU - Shull, Michael
AU - Simon, Joshua D.
AU - Skinner, Danielle
AU - Skrutskie, M. F.
AU - Slosar, Anže
AU - Smith, Verne V.
AU - Sobeck, Jennifer S.
AU - Sobreira, Flavia
AU - Somers, Garrett
AU - Souto, Diogo
AU - Stark, David V.
AU - Stassun, Keivan
AU - Stauffer, Fritz
AU - Steinmetz, Matthias
AU - Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
AU - Streblyanska, Alina
AU - Stringfellow, Guy S.
AU - Suárez, Genaro
AU - Sun, Jing
AU - Suzuki, Nao
AU - Szigeti, Laszlo
AU - Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
AU - Tang, Baitian
AU - Tao, Charling
AU - Tayar, Jamie
AU - Tembe, Mita
AU - Teske, Johanna
AU - Thakar, Aniruddha R.
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Thompson, Benjamin A.
AU - Tinker, Jeremy L.
AU - Tissera, Patricia
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Toledo, Hector Hernandez
AU - Torre, Sylvain De La
AU - Tremonti, Christy
AU - Troup, Nicholas W.
AU - Valenzuela, Octavio
AU - Valpuesta, Inma Martinez
AU - Vargas-González, Jaime
AU - Vargas-Magaña, Mariana
AU - Vazquez, Jose Alberto
AU - Villanova, Sandro
AU - Vivek, M.
AU - Vogt, Nicole
AU - Wake, David
AU - Walterbos, Rene
AU - Wang, Yuting
AU - Weaver, Benjamin Alan
AU - Weijmans, Anne Marie
AU - Weinberg, David H.
AU - Westfall, Kyle B.
AU - Whelan, David G.
AU - Wild, Vivienne
AU - Wilson, John
AU - Wood-Vasey, W. M.
AU - Wylezalek, Dominika
AU - Xiao, Ting
AU - Yan, Renbin
AU - Yang, Meng
AU - Ybarra, Jason E.
AU - Yèche, Christophe
AU - Zakamska, Nadia
AU - Zamora, Olga
AU - Zarrouk, Pauline
AU - Zasowski, Gail
AU - Zhang, Kai
AU - Zhao, Gong Bo
AU - Zheng, Zheng
AU - Zhou, Xu
AU - Zhou, Zhi Min
AU - Zhu, Guangtun B.
AU - Zoccali, Manuela
AU - Zou, Hu
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - 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 z ∼ 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between 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 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.
AB - 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 z ∼ 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between 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 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.
KW - Galaxy: general
KW - cosmology: observations
KW - galaxies: general
KW - instrumentation: spectrographs
KW - stars: general
KW - surveys
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