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Many astronomers now participate in large international collaborations, and it is important to examine whether these structures foster a scientific climate that is inclusive and diverse. The Committee on the Participation of Women in the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-09-16
Britt Lundgren , Karen Kinemuchi , Gail Zasowski , Sara Lucatello , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Christy A. Tremonti , Adam D. Myers , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Bruce Gillespie , Shirley Ho , John S. Gallagher
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the largest and most ambitious optical CCD survey undertaken to date. It will ultimately map out one quarter of the sky with precision photometry in five bands, high-quality astrometry, and spectra of…
The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2018-05-08
Bela Abolfathi , D. S. Aguado , Gabriela Aguilar , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Tonima Tasnim Ananna , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Eric Armengaud , Metin Ata , Eric Aubourg , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Stephen Bailey , Christophe Balland , Kathleen A. Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Curtis Bartosz , Fabienne Bastien , Dominic Bates , Falk Baumgarten , Julian Bautista , Rachael Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Chad F. Bender , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew A. Bershady , Florian Beutler , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , Christian Andres Bradna Diaz , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Adam J. Burgasser , Etienne Burtin , Nicolas G. Busca , Caleb I. Canas , Mariana Cano-Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Andrew R. Casey , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Cristina Chiappini , Peter Doohyun Choi , Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Haeun Chung , Nicolas Clerc , Roger E. Cohen , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Luiz da Costa , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez , Katia Cunha , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Guillermo J. Damke , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Kyle Dawson , Miguel Angel C. de Icaza Lizaola , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Nathan De Lee , Victoria de Sainte Agathe , Alice Deconto Machado , Flavia Dell'Agli , Timothee Delubac , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , John Donor , Juan Jose Downes , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Christopher J. Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Jamie Dyer , Garrett Ebelke , Arthur Davis Eigenbrot , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne P. Elsworth , Eric Emsellem , Mike Eracleous , Ghazaleh Erfanianfar , Stephanie Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , Emma Fernandez Alvar , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Rafael Fernando Cirolini , Diane Feuillet , Alexis Finoguenov , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Gordon Freischlad , Peter Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew , Lluis Galbany , Ana E. Garcia Perez , R. Garcia-Dias , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen , Patrick Gaulme , Joseph Gelfand , Hector Gil-Marin , Bruce A. Gillespie , Daniel Goddard , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul J. Green , Catherine J. Grier , Alain Gueguen , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Alex Hagen , Patrick Hall , Paul Harding , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne Hawley , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Saskia Hekker , Jesus Hernandez , Hector Hernandez Toledo , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon Holtzman , Jiamin Hou , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Jason A. S. Hunt , Timothy A. Hutchinson , Ho Seong Hwang , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Eric Jullo , Fahim Sakil Khan , Karen Kinemuchi , David Kirkby , Charles C. Kirkpatrick , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Gillian R. Knapp , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Ivan Lacerna , Richard R. Lane , Dustin Lang , David R. Law , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Young-Bae Lee , Hongyu Li , Cheng Li , Jianhui Lian , Yu Liang , Marcos Lima , Lihwai Lin , Dan Long , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , J. Ted Mackereth , Chelsea L. MacLeod , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Steven Majewski , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Vivek Mariappan , Rui Marques-Chaves , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Richard M. McDermid , Ian D. McGreer , Matthew Melendez , Sofia Meneses-Goytia , Andrea Merloni , Michael R. Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andres Meza , Ivan Minchev , Dante Minniti , Eva-Maria Mueller , Francisco Muller-Sanchez , Demitri Muna , Ricardo R. Munoz , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Melissa Ness , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Julia O'Connell , Ryan James Oelkers , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Erik Aquino Ortiz , Yeisson Osorio , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Pedro Alonso Palicio , Hsi-An Pan , Kaike Pan , Taniya Parikh , Isabelle Paris , Changbom Park , Sebastien Peirani , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc Pinsonneault , Alice Pisani , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Anna Barbara de Andrade Queiroz , M. Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Hannah Richstein , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogerio Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Sergio Rodriguez Torres , Carlos Roman-Zuniga , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Rossana Ruggeri , Jose Ruiz , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sanchez , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Felipe Antonio Santana Rojas , Basilio Xavier Santiago , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , William J. Schuster , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Aldo Serenelli , Shiyin Shen , Yue Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Michael Shull , Victor Silva Aguirre , Joshua D. Simon , Mike Skrutskie , Anze Slosar , Rebecca Smethurst , Verne Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Garrett Somers , Barbara J. Souter , Diogo Souto , Ashley Spindler , David V. Stark , Keivan Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Dennis Stello , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Alina Streblyanska , Guy Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Laszlo Szigeti , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Baitian Tang , Charling Tao , Jamie Tayar , Mita Tembe , Johanna Teske , Aniruddha R. Thaker , Daniel Thomas , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Christy Tremonti , Nicholas W. Troup , Meg Urry , O. Valenzuela , Remco van den Bosch , Jaime Vargas-Gonzalez , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Sandro Villanova , Nicole Vogt , David Wake , Yuting Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David H. Weinberg , Kyle B. Westfall , David G. Whelan , Eric Wilcots , Vivienne Wild , Rob A. Williams , John Wilson , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Dominika Wylezalek , Ting Xiao , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Jason E. Ybarra , Christophe Yeche , Nadia Zakamska , Olga Zamora , Pauline Zarrouk , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Zhi-Min Zhou , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is making a multi-colour, three dimensional map of the nearby Universe. The survey is in two parts. The first part is imaging one quarter of the sky in five colours from the near ultraviolet to the near…
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
The advent of deep, wide, accurate, digital photometric surveys exemplified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has had a profound impact on studies of the Milky Way. In the past decade, we have transitioned from a scarcity to an…
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…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2017-12-20
SDSS Collaboration , Franco D. Albareti , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Friedrich Anders , Scott Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Eric Armengaud , Eric Aubourg , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Stephen Bailey , Beatriz Barbuy , Kat Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Curtis Bartosz , Sarbani Basu , Dominic Bates , Giuseppina Battaglia , Falk Baumgarten , Julien Baur , Julian Bautista , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Matthew Bershady , Sara Bertran de Lis , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , J. Borissova , Jo Bovy , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Etienne Burtin , Nicolas G. Busca , Hugo Orlando Camacho Chavez , M. Cano Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Edmond Cheung , Cristina Chiappini , Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Haeun Chung , Rafael Fernando Cirolini , Nicolas Clerc , Roger E. Cohen , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Rupert Croft , Katia Cunha , Luiz da Costa , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Kyle Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Alice Deconto Machado , Timothee Delubac , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , John Donor , Juan Jose Downes , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Cheng Du , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Arthur Eigenbrot , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne P. Elsworth , Eric Emsellem , Michael Eracleous , Stephanie Escoffier , Michael L. Evans , Jesus Falcon-Barroso , Xiaohui Fan , Ginevra Favole , Emma Fernandez-Alvar , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Gordon Freischlad , Peter Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Yang Gao , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Ana E. Garcia Perez , Rafael A. Garcia , R. Garcia-Dias , Patrick Gaulme , Junqiang Ge , Douglas Geisler , Hector Gil Marin , Bruce Gillespie , Leo Girardi , Daniel Goddard , Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul Green , Catherine J. Grier , Thomas Grier , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Alex Hagen , Matt Hall , Paul Harding , R. E. Harley , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne Hawley , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Saskia Hekker , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Parker H. Holzer , Jian Hu , Daniel Huber , Timothy Alan Hutchinson , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Inese I. Ivans , KeShawn Ivory , Kurt Jaehnig , Trey W. Jensen , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy Jones , Eric Jullo , T. Kallinger , Karen Kinemuchi , David Kirkby , Mark Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Ivan Lacerna , Richard R. Lane , Dustin Lang , Pierre Laurent , David R. Law , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Alexie Leauthaud , Cheng Li , Ran Li , Chen Li , Niu Li , Fu-Heng Liang , Yu Liang , Marcos Lima , Lihwai Lin , Lin Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Dan Long , Sara Lucatello , Nicholas MacDonald , Chelsea L. MacLeod , J. Ted Mackereth , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio Antonio-Geimba Maia , Roberto Maiolino , Steven R. Majewski , Olena Malanushenko , Nicolas Dullius Mallmann , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Rui Marques-Chaves , Inma Martinez Valpuesta , Karen L. Masters , Savita Mathur , Ian D. McGreer , Andrea Merloni , Michael R. Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andres Meza , Andrea Miglio , Ivan Minchev , Karan Molaverdikhani , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Benoit Mosser , Demitri Muna , Adam Myers , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Melissa Ness , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Julia O'Connell , Audrey Oravetz , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John Parejko , Isabelle Paris , John A. Peacock , Sebastien Peirani , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Jeffrey W. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew Pieri , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Alice Pisani , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Natalie Price-Jones , M. Jordan Raddick , Mubdi Rahman , Anand Raichoor , Sandro Barboza Rembold , A. M. Reyna , James Rich , Hannah Richstein , Jethro Ridl , Rogerio Riffel , Rogemar A. Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Constance M. Rockosi , Sergio Rodriguez-Torres , Thaise S. Rodrigues , Natalie Roe , A. Roman Lopes , Carlos Roman-Zuniga , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Rossana Ruggeri , Jessie C. Runnoe , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sanchez , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Basilio Xavier Santiago , Ricardo Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Eddie Schlafly , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Ralph Schoenrich , Mathias Schultheis , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Aldo Serenelli , Branimir Sesar , Zhengyi Shao , Matthew Shetrone , Michael Shull , Victor Silva Aguirre , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Michael Smith , Verne V. Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Garrett Somers , Diogo Souto , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Dennis Stello , Thaisa Storchi Bergmann , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Baitian Tang , Charling Tao , Jamie Tayar , Mita Tembe , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy Tremonti , Nicholas Troup , Jonathan R. Trump , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , O. Valenzuela , Remco van den Bosch , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Sandro Villanova , M. Vivek , Nicole Vogt , David Wake , Rene Walterbos , Yuting Wang , Enci Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David H. Weinberg , Kyle B. Westfall , David G. Whelan , Eric Wilcots , Vivienne Wild , Rob A. Williams , John Wilson , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Dominika Wylezalek , Ting Xiao , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Jason E. Ybarra , Christophe Yeche , Fang-Ting Yuan , Nadia Zakamska , Olga Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Zhi-Min Zhou , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou
Diversity, equity and inclusion are the science leadership issues of our time. As our nation and the field of astronomy grow more diverse, we find ourselves in a position of enormous potential and opportunity: a multitude of studies show…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2016-10-11
Carolyn Brinkworth , Allison Byrd Skaer , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Johanna Teske , Sarah Tuttle
It is sometimes argued that the uneven sky coverage of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) biases the distribution of satellite galaxies discovered by it to align with the polar plane defined by the 11 brighter, classical Milky Way (MW)…
Astronomy is changing. Large projects, large collaborations, and large budgets are becoming the norm. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one example of this new astronomy, and in operating the original survey, we put in place and…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-02
S. J. Kleinman , J. E. Gunn , B. Boroski , D. Long , S. Snedden , A. Nitta , J. Krzesiński , M. Harvanek , E. Neilsen , B. Gillespie , J. C. Barentine , A. Uomoto , D. Tucker , D. York , S. Jester
Current science and technology has produced more and more publically accessible scientific data. However, little is known about how the open data trend impacts a scientific community, specifically in terms of its collaboration behaviors.…
Nowadays, science has been coming into a new paradigm, called data-intensive science. While current studies of the new phenomenon focused on building up infrastructure for this new paradigm, yet a few studies concern users of scientific…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2011-02-08
Jian Zhang , Chaomei Chen , Michael S. Vogeley
A significant gender disparity is widely known to occur within the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Women are both under-represented in their participation in Australian STEM education (compared to their…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-01
Eriita G. Jones , Jonathan Horner , Ann Cairns , Wayne Short
This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through June 2004. The data release includes five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670…
If the ethnic makeup of the astronomy profession is to achieve parity with the general population within one generation (~30 years), the number of underrepresented minorities earning graduate degrees in astronomy and astrophysics must…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2009-03-27
Dara Norman , CSMA , NSHP , Marcel Agueros , Scott F. Anderson , Andrew Baker , Adam Burgasser , Kelle Cruz , David J. Ernst , Eric Gawiser , Anita Krishnamurthi , Hyun-chul Lee , Kenneth Mighell , Charles McGruder , Philip J. Sakimoto , Kartik Sheth , Dave Soderblom , Michael Strauss , Donald Walter , Andrew West , UW Pre-Map staff - Eric Agol , Jeremiah Murphy , Sarah Garner , Jill Bellovary , Sarah Schmidt , Nick Cowan , Stephanie Gogarten , Adrienne Stilp , Charlotte Christensen , Eric Hilton , Daryl Haggard , Sarah Loebman Phil Rosenfield , Ferah Munshi
Large digital sky surveys, over a broad range of wavelengths, both from the ground and from space observatories, are becoming a major source of astronomical data. Some examples include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Digital…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-05-27
III collaboration , Hiroaki Aihara , Carlos Allende Prieto , Deokkeun An , Scott F. Anderson , Éric Aubourg , Eduardo Balbinot , Timothy C. Beers , Andreas A. Berlind , Steven J. Bickerton , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Nicolas G. Busca , Heather Campbell , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Cristina Chiappini , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Marina Cortes , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle Dawson , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Bruno Femení a Castellá , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Jian Ge , Bruce A. Gillespie , G. Gilmore , Jonay I. González Hernández , J. Richard Gott , Andrew Gould , Eva K. Grebel , James E. Gunn , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Frederick R. Hearty , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Naohisa Inada , Inese I. Ivans , Linhua Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , Cathy Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , G. R. Knapp , Jean-Paul Kneib , C. S. Kochanek , Lars Koesterke , Juna A. Kollmeier , Richard G. Kron , Hubert Lampeitl , Dustin Lang , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Young Sun Lee , Yen-Ting Lin , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Zhibo Ma , Nicholas MacDonald , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Peregrine M. McGehee , Ian D. McGreer , Brice Ménard , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Heather L. Morrison , F. Mullally , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Hitoshi Murayama , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Angelo Fausti Neto , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , Robert W. O'Connell , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Parul Pandey , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Stefanie Phleps , Christophe Pichon , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Beatriz H. F. Ramos , Céline Reylé , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Emmanuel Rollinde , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Bruno M. Rossetto , Ariel G. Sánchez , Conor Sayres , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Erin Sheldon , Yiping Shu , Jennifer Simmerer , Audrey E. Simmons , Thirupathi Sivarani , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Alexander S. Szalay , Masayuki Tanaka , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Benjamin M. Tofflemire , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , Jan Vandenberg , M. Vargas Magaña , Licia Verde , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , Brian Yanny , Naoki Yasuda , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a project to definitively map $\pi$ steradians of the local Universe. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will digitally image the sky in five passbands to a limiting magnitude of $r'…
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…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-02-13
D. S. Aguado , Romina Ahumada , Andres Almeida , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Erik Aquino Ortiz , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Marie Aubert , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Kat Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Dominic Bates , Julian Bautista , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew Bershady , Florian Beutler , Jonathan Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Adam Burgasser , Nell Byler , Mariana Cano Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Peter Doohyun Choi , Haeun Chung , Damien Coffey , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Kevin Covey , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Luiz da Costa , Yu Sophia Dai , Guillermo Damke , Jeremy Darling , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Victoria de Sainte Agathe , Alice Deconto Machado , Agnese Del Moro , Nathan De Lee , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Helena Dominguez Sanchez , John Donor , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Chris Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Eric Emsellem , Stephanie Escoffier , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Johanna-Laina Fischer , Scott W. Fleming , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Gordon Freischlad , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Lluis Galbany , Rafael Garcia-Dias , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Hector Gil-Marin , Kathleen Grabowski , Meng Gu , Hong Guo , Jaewon Ha , Emily Harrington , Sten Hasselquist , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Harry Hicks , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Jason A. S. Hunt , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel , Jennifer Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Karen Kinemuchi , Juna Kollmeier , Coleman Krawczyk , Kathryn Kreckel , Sandor Kruk , Ivan Lacerna , Ting-Wen Lan , Richard R. Lane , David R. Law , Young-Bae Lee , Cheng Li , Jianhui Lian , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Chris Lintott , Dan Long , Penelope Longa-Pena , J. Ted Mackereth , Axel de la Macorra , Steven R. Majewski , Olena Malanushenko , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Vivek Mariappan , Mariarosa Marinelli , Rui Marques-Chaves , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Richard M. McDermid , Nicolas Medina Pena , Sofia Meneses-Goytia , Andrea Merloni , Michael Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Dante Minniti , Rebecca Minsley , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Nitschelm , Matthew D Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Rene A. Ortega Minakata , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Pedro A. Palicio , Kaike Pan , Hsi-An Pan , Taniya Parikh , James Parker , Sebastien Peirani , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Thomas Peterken , Marc Pinsonneault , Abhishek Prakash , Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogerio Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Benjamin Rose , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Kate Rowlands , Kate H. R. Rubin , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Conor Sayres , Adam Schaefer , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Donald Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Hee-Jong Seo , Shoaib J. Shamsi , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Shravan Shetty , Gregory Simonian , Rebecca Smethurst , Jennifer Sobeck , Barbara J. Souter , Ashley Spindler , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Jamie Tayar , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Octavio Valenzuela , Mariana Vargas-Maga na , Jose Antonio Vazquez Mata , David Wake , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Kyle B. Westfall , Vivienne Wild , John Wilson , Emily Woods , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Olga Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is collecting photometry and intermediate resolution spectra for ~ 10**5 stars in the thick-disk and stellar halo of the Milky Way. This massive dataset can be used to infer the properties of the stars…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , Y. Li , H. J. Newberg , R. Wilhelm , B. Yanny