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Accurate active galactic nucleus (AGN) identifications in large galaxy samples are crucial to assess the role of AGN and AGN feedback in the coevolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. Emission line flux ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Marco Albán , Dominika Wylezalek

We spectroscopically detected candidate emission-lines of 8 likely, 17 probable, and 69 possible strong galaxy-galaxy gravitational lens candidates found within the spectra of ~10,000 galaxy targets contained within the completed Mapping of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Michael S. Talbot , Joel R. Brownstein , Justus Neumann , Daniel Thomas , Claudia Maraston , Niv Drory

We use the statistical power of the MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic galaxy survey to improve the definition of strong line diagnostic boundaries used to classify gas ionization properties in galaxies. We detect line emission from 3.6…

In this paper, we investigate 2727 galaxies observed by MaNGA as of June 2016 to develop spatially resolved techniques for identifying signatures of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We identify 303 AGN candidates. The additional spatial…

Using the integral field unit (IFU) data from Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we collect a sample of 36 star forming galaxies that host galactic-scale outflows in ionized gas phase. The control sample is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Min Bao , Yanmei Chen , Qirong Yuan , Yong Shi , Dmitry Bizyaev , Xiaoling Yu , Shuai Feng , Xiao Cao , Yulong Gao , Qiusheng Gu , Ying Yu

SDSS-IV MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is the largest integral-field spectroscopy survey to date, aiming to observe a statistically representative sample of 10,000 low-redshift galaxies. In this paper we study…

The MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) is a large collection of high-quality empirical stellar spectra designed to cover all spectral types and ideal for use in the stellar population analysis of galaxies observed in the Mapping Nearby Galaxies…

We present the MaNGA Dwarf galaxy, MaNDala, Value-Added-Catalog, VAC, from the final release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV program. MaNDala consists of 136 randomly selected bright dwarf galaxies with $M_{*}<10^{9.1}\odot$ and…

We measure the star formation histories (SFH) of a sample of low-mass galaxies with $M_\ast<10^9M_\odot$ from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. The large number of IFU spectra for each galaxy are either combined to reach a high signal to noise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-01 Shuang Zhou , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Médéric Boquien , Graziano Rossi

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-07 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Fu-Heng Liang , Cheng Li , Hongyu LI , 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 , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Richard M. McDermid , Brianne McGrath , Ian D. McGreer , Nicolás Medina Peña , Matthew Melendez , Andrea Merloni , Michael R. Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andres Meza , Ivan Minchev , Dante Minniti , Takamitsu Miyaji , Surhud More , John Mulchaey , Francisco Müller-Sánchez , Demitri Muna , Ricardo R. Munoz , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Alenka Negrete , Melissa Ness , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Pierros Ntelis , Julia E. O'Connell , Ryan J. Oelkers , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Pedro Alonso Palicio , Kaike Pan , Taniya Parikh , Isabelle Pâris , Changbom Park , Alim Y. Patten , Sebastien Peirani , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc Pinsonneault , Alice Pisani , Radosław Poleski , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz , M. Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Hannah Richstein , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogério Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Constance M. Rockosi , Sergio Rodríguez-Torres , A. Roman-Lopes , Carlos Román-Zúñiga , Margarita Rosado , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Rossana Ruggeri , Eli S. Rykoff , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sánchez , David Sánchez Aguado , José R. Sánchez-Gallego , Felipe A. Santana , Basílio Xavier Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson da Silva Schimoia , Edward F. Schlafly , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , William J. Schuster , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Michael Shull , Joshua D. Simon , Danielle Skinner , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Verne V. Smith , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Flavia Sobreira , Garrett Somers , Diogo Souto , David V. Stark , Keivan Stassun , Fritz Stauffer , Matthias Steinmetz , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Alina Streblyanska , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suárez , Jing Sun , Nao Suzuki , Laszlo Szigeti , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Baitian Tang , Charling Tao , Jamie Tayar , Mita Tembe , Johanna Teske , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Sylvain de la Torre , Christy Tremonti , Nicholas W. Troup , Octavio Valenzuela , Inma Martinez Valpuesta , Jaime Vargas-González , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Sandro Villanova , M. Vivek , Nicole Vogt , David Wake , Rene Walterbos , Yuting Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David H. Weinberg , Kyle B. Westfall , David G. Whelan , Vivienne Wild , John Wilson , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Dominika Wylezalek , Ting Xiao , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Jason E. Ybarra , Christophe Yèche , Nadia Zakamska , Olga Zamora , Pauline Zarrouk , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zhi-Min Zhou , Guangtun B. Zhu , Manuela Zoccali , Hu Zou

We present here the analysis performed using the pyPipe3D pipeline for the final MaNGA dataset included in the SDSS seventeenth data-release. This dataset comprises more than 10,000 individual datacubes, being the integral field…

We calculate the fundamental stellar parameters effective temperature, surface gravity and iron abundance - T$_{\rm eff}$, log g, [Fe/H] - for the final release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) Stellar Library (MaStar),…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA program has now obtained integral field spectroscopy for over 10,000 galaxies in the nearby universe. We use the final MaNGA data release DR17 to study the correlation between ionized gas velocity…

We have re-observed $\rm\sim$40 low-inclination, star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey ($\upsigma\sim65$~\kms) at $\sim$6.5 times higher spectral resolution ($\upsigma\sim10$~\kms) using the HexPak integral field unit on the WIYN 3.5m…

The mean stellar alpha-to-iron abundance ratio ([$\alpha$/Fe]) of a galaxy is an indicator of galactic star formation timescale. It is important for understanding the star formation history of early-type galaxies (ETGs) as their star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-25 Yiqing Liu

We present a method of fitting optical spectra of galaxies using a basis set of six vectors obtained from principal component analysis (PCA) of a library of synthetic spectra of 40000 star formation histories (SFHs). Using this library, we…

Strengthening the synergy between simulations and observations is essential to test galaxy formation and evolution theories. To achieve this goal, in the first paper of this series, we presented a method to generate mock SDSS-IV/MaNGA…

We study the internal gradients of stellar population properties within $1.5\;R_{\rm e}$ for a representative sample of 721 galaxies with stellar masses ranging between $10^{9}\;M_{\odot}$ to $10^{11.5}\;M_{\odot}$ from the SDSS-IV MaNGA…

We present an extensive catalog of non-parametric structural properties derived from optical and mid-infrared imaging for 4585 galaxies from the MaNGA survey. DESI and WISE imaging are used to extract surface brightness profiles in the g,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-01 Nikhil Arora , Connor Stone , Stéphane Courteau , Thomas H. Jarrett

We provide a catalog of visually classified objects in the MaNGA integral field spectroscopic survey. The MaNGA survey is designed to target a single galaxy with each of its integral field units; however, many of these fields will host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Joshua L. Steffen , Hai Fu