The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library
Abstract
Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (July 2014-July 2017). This is the third data release for SDSS-IV, and the fifteenth from SDSS (Data Release Fifteen; DR15). New data come from MaNGA - we release 4824 datacubes, as well as the first stellar spectra in the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), the first set of survey-supported analysis products (e.g. stellar and gas kinematics, emission line, and other maps) from the MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline (DAP), and a new data visualisation and access tool we call "Marvin". The next data release, DR16, will include new data from both APOGEE-2 and eBOSS; those surveys release no new data here, but we document updates and corrections to their data processing pipelines. The release is cumulative; it also includes the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since first light. In this paper we describe the location and format of the data and tools and cite technical references describing how it was obtained and processed. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has also been updated, providing links to data downloads, tutorials and examples of data use. While SDSS-IV will continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V (2020-2025), we end this paper by describing plans to ensure the sustainability of the SDSS data archive for many years beyond the collection of data.
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@article{arxiv.1812.02759,
title = {The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library},
author = {D. S. Aguado and Romina Ahumada and Andres Almeida and Scott F. Anderson and Brett H. Andrews and Borja Anguiano and Erik Aquino Ortiz and Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca and Maria Argudo-Fernandez and Marie Aubert and Vladimir Avila-Reese and Carles Badenes and Sandro Barboza Rembold and Kat Barger and Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros and Dominic Bates and Julian Bautista and Rachael L. Beaton and Timothy C. Beers and Francesco Belfiore and Mariangela Bernardi and Matthew Bershady and Florian Beutler and Jonathan Bird and Dmitry Bizyaev and Guillermo A. Blanc and Michael R. Blanton and Michael Blomqvist and Adam S. Bolton and Mederic Boquien and Jura Borissova and Jo Bovy and William Nielsen Brandt and Jonathan Brinkmann and Joel R. Brownstein and Kevin Bundy and Adam Burgasser and Nell Byler and Mariana Cano Diaz and Michele Cappellari and Ricardo Carrera and Bernardo Cervantes Sodi and Yanping Chen and Brian Cherinka and Peter Doohyun Choi and Haeun Chung and Damien Coffey and Julia M. Comerford and Johan Comparat and Kevin Covey and Gabriele da Silva Ilha and Luiz da Costa and Yu Sophia Dai and Guillermo Damke and Jeremy Darling and Roger Davies and Kyle Dawson and Victoria de Sainte Agathe and Alice Deconto Machado and Agnese Del Moro and Nathan De Lee and Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic and Helena Dominguez Sanchez and John Donor and Niv Drory and Helion du Mas des Bourboux and Chris Duckworth and Tom Dwelly and Garrett Ebelke and Eric Emsellem and Stephanie Escoffier and Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado and Diane Feuillet and Johanna-Laina Fischer and Scott W. Fleming and Amelia Fraser-McKelvie and Gordon Freischlad and Peter M. Frinchaboy and Hai Fu and Lluis Galbany and Rafael Garcia-Dias and D. A. Garcia-Hernandez and Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen and Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia and Hector Gil-Marin and Kathleen Grabowski and Meng Gu and Hong Guo and Jaewon Ha and Emily Harrington and Sten Hasselquist and Christian R. Hayes and Fred Hearty and Hector Hernandez Toledo and Harry Hicks and David W. Hogg and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Jon A. Holtzman and Bau-Ching Hsieh and Jason A. S. Hunt and Ho Seong Hwang and Hector J. Ibarra-Medel and Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel and Jennifer Johnson and Amy Jones and Henrik Jonsson and Karen Kinemuchi and Juna Kollmeier and Coleman Krawczyk and Kathryn Kreckel and Sandor Kruk and Ivan Lacerna and Ting-Wen Lan and Richard R. Lane and David R. Law and Young-Bae Lee and Cheng Li and Jianhui Lian and Lihwai Lin and Yen-Ting Lin and Chris Lintott and Dan Long and Penelope Longa-Pena and J. Ted Mackereth and Axel de la Macorra and Steven R. Majewski and Olena Malanushenko and Arturo Manchado and Claudia Maraston and Vivek Mariappan and Mariarosa Marinelli and Rui Marques-Chaves and Thomas Masseron and Karen L. Masters and Richard M. McDermid and Nicolas Medina Pena and Sofia Meneses-Goytia and Andrea Merloni and Michael Merrifield and Szabolcs Meszaros and Dante Minniti and Rebecca Minsley and Demitri Muna and Adam D. Myers and Preethi Nair and Janaina Correa do Nascimento and Jeffrey A. Newman and Christian Nitschelm and Matthew D Olmstead and Audrey Oravetz and Daniel Oravetz and Rene A. Ortega Minakata and Zach Pace and Nelson Padilla and Pedro A. Palicio and Kaike Pan and Hsi-An Pan and Taniya Parikh and James Parker and Sebastien Peirani and Samantha Penny and Will J. Percival and Ismael Perez-Fournon and Thomas Peterken and Marc Pinsonneault and Abhishek Prakash and Jordan Raddick and Anand Raichoor and Rogemar A. Riffel and Rogerio Riffel and Hans-Walter Rix and Annie C. Robin and Alexandre Roman-Lopes and Benjamin Rose and Ashley J. Ross and Graziano Rossi and Kate Rowlands and Kate H. R. Rubin and Sebastian F. Sanchez and Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego and Conor Sayres and Adam Schaefer and Ricardo P. Schiavon and Jaderson S. Schimoia and Edward Schlafly and David Schlegel and Donald Schneider and Mathias Schultheis and Hee-Jong Seo and Shoaib J. Shamsi and Zhengyi Shao and Shiyin Shen and Shravan Shetty and Gregory Simonian and Rebecca Smethurst and Jennifer Sobeck and Barbara J. Souter and Ashley Spindler and David V. Stark and Keivan G. Stassun and Matthias Steinmetz and Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann and Guy S. Stringfellow and Genaro Suarez and Jing Sun and Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp and Michael S. Talbot and Jamie Tayar and Aniruddha R. Thakar and Daniel Thomas and Patricia Tissera and Rita Tojeiro and Nicholas W. Troup and Eduardo Unda-Sanzana and Octavio Valenzuela and Mariana Vargas-Maga na and Jose Antonio Vazquez Mata and David Wake and Benjamin Alan Weaver and Anne-Marie Weijmans and Kyle B. Westfall and Vivienne Wild and John Wilson and Emily Woods and Renbin Yan and Meng Yang and Olga Zamora and Gail Zasowski and Kai Zhang and Zheng Zheng and Zheng Zheng and Guangtun Zhu and Joel C. Zinn and Hu Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02759},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Paper to accompany DR15. 25 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJSS. The two papers on the MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline (DAP, Westfall et al. and Belfiore et al., see Section 4.1.2), and the paper on Marvin (Cherinka et al., see Section 4.2) have been submitted for collaboration review and will be posted to arXiv in due course. v2 fixes some broken URLs in the PDF