The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Abstract
Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial objects to constrain the physical processes that govern our Universe. The most recent and fifth generation of SDSS (SDSS-V) is organized into three scientific ``mappers". Milky Way Mapper (MWM) that aims to chart the various components of the Milky Way and constrain its formation and assembly, Black Hole Mapper (BHM), which focuses on understanding supermassive black holes in distant galaxies across the Universe, and Local Volume Mapper (LVM), which uses integral field spectroscopy to map the ionized interstellar medium in the local group. This paper describes and outlines the scope and content for the nineteenth data release (DR19) of SDSS and the most substantial to date in SDSS-V. DR19 is the first to contain data from all three mappers. Additionally, we also describe nine value added catalogs (VACs) that enhance the science that can be conducted with the SDSS-V data. Finally, we discuss how to access SDSS DR19 and provide illustrative examples and tutorials.
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@article{arxiv.2507.07093,
title = {The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey},
author = {SDSS Collaboration and Gautham Adamane Pallathadka and Mojgan Aghakhanloo and James Aird and Andrés Almeida and Singh Amrita and Friedrich Anders and Scott F. Anderson and Stefan Arseneau and Consuelo González Avila and Shir Aviram and Catarina Aydar and Carles Badenes and Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros and Franz E. Bauer and Aida Behmard and Michelle Berg and F. Besser and Christian Moni Bidin and Dmitry Bizyaev and Guillermo Blanc and Michael R. Blanton and Jo Bovy and William Nielsen Brandt and Joel R. Brownstein and Johannes Buchner and Esra Bulbul and Joseph N. Burchett and Leticia Carigi and Joleen K. Carlberg and Andrew R. Casey and Priyanka Chakraborty and Julio Chanamé and Vedant Chandra and Cristina Chiappini and Igor Chilingarian and Johan Comparat and Kevin Covey and Nicole Crumpler and Katia Cunha and Elena D'Onghia and Xinyu Dai and Jeremy Darling and Megan Davis and Nathan De Lee and Niall Deacon and José Eduardo Méndez Delgado and Sebastian Demasi and Mariia Demianenko and Delvin Demke and John Donor and Niv Drory and Monica Alejandra Villa Durango and Tom Dwelly and Oleg Egorov and Evgeniya Egorova and Kareem El-Badry and Mike Eracleous and Xiaohui Fan and Emily Farr and Douglas P. Finkbeiner and Logan Fries and Peter Frinchaboy and Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo and Luis Daniel Serrano Félix and Boris Gaensicke and Emma Galligan and Pablo García and Joseph Gelfand and Katie Grabowski and Eva Grebel and Paul J Green and Hannah Greve and Catherine Grier and Emily Griffith and Paloma Guetzoyan and Pramod Gupta and Zoe Hackshaw and Patrick B. Hall and Keith Hawkins and Viola Hegedűs and Saskia Hekker and T. M. Herbst and J. J. Hermes and Lorena Hernández-García and Pranavi Hiremath and David W Hogg and Jon Holtzman and Keith Horne and Danny Horta and Yang Huang and Brian Hutchinson and Maximilian Häberle and Hector Javier Ibarra-Medel and Alexander P. Ji and Paula Jofre and James W. Johnson and Jennifer Johnson and Evelyn J. Johnston and Mary Kaldor and Ivan Katkov and Arman Khalatyan and Sergey Khoperskov and Ralf Klessen and Matthias Kluge and Anton M. Koekemoer and Juna A. Kollmeier and Marina Kounkel and Kathryn Kreckel and Dhanesh Krishnarao and Mirko Krumpe and Ivan Lacerna and Chervin Laporte and Sebastien Lepine and Jing Li and Fu-Heng Liang and Guilherme Limberg and Xin Liu and Sarah Loebman and Knox Long and Yuxi Lu and Madeline Lucey and Alejandra Z. Lugo-Aranda and Mary Loli Martínez Martinez-Aldama and Kevin McKinnon and Ilija Medan and Andrea Merloni and Sean Morrison and Natalie Myers and Szabolcs Mészáros and Johanna Müller-Horn and Samir Nepal and Melissa Ness and David Nidever and Christian Nitschelm and Audrey Oravetz and Jonah Otto and Kaike Pan and Facundo Pérez Paolino and Castalia Alenka Negrete Peñaloza and Marc Pinsonneault and Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp and Adrian Price-Whelan and Nadiia Pulatova and Anna Barbara Queiroz and Jordan Raddick and Amy Rankine and Hans-Walter Rix and Carlos Román-Zúñiga and Daniela Fernández Rosso and Jessie Runnoe and Serat Mahmud Saad and Mara Salvato and Sebastian F. Sanchez and Natascha Sattler and Andrew Saydjari and Conor Sayres and Kevin Schlaufman and Donald P. Schneider and Axel Schwope and Lucas M. Seaton and Rhys Seeburger and Javier Serna and Sanjib Sharma and Yue Shen and Amaya Sinha and Brian Sizemore and Marzena Sniegowska and Yingyi Song and Diogo Souto and Keivan Stassun and Matthias Steinmetz and Zachary Stone and Alexander Stone-Martinez and Guy S. Stringfellow and Aurora Mata Sánchez and José Sánchez-Gallego and Jonathan Tan and Jamie Tayar and Riley Thai and Ani Thakar and Pierre Thibodeaux and Yuan-Sen Ting and Andrew Tkachenko and Benny Trakhtenbrot and Jose G. Fernandez Trincado and Nicholas Troup and Jonathan R. Trump and Natalie Ulloa and Roeland P. Van der Marel and Pablo Vera and Sandro Villanova and Jaime Villaseñor and Ji Wang and Zachary Way and Anne-Marie Weijmans and Adam Wheeler and John C. Wilson and Aida Wofford and Tony Wong and Qiaoya Wu and Dominika Wylezalek and Xiang-Xiang Xue and Renbin Yan and Qian Yang and Nadia Zakamska and Eleonora Zari and Gail Zasowski and Grisha Zeltyn and Zheng Zheng and Catherine Zucker and Rodolfo de J. Zermeño},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07093},
year = {2025}
}
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Submitted to AASJournals. 56 Pages, 9 Tables, 11 Figures