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Report number	arXiv:1703.00052
Title	Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe
Related title	Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe
Author(s)	Blanton, Michael R. (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.) ; Bershady, Matthew A. (Wisconsin U., Madison, Astron.) ; Abolfathi, Bela ; Albareti, Franco D. (Madrid, Autonoma U. ; Madrid, IFT) ; Allende Prieto, Carlos ; Almeida, Andres ; Alonso-García, Javier ; Anders, Friedrich (Potsdam, Astrophys. Inst.) ; Anderson, Scott F. (LLNL, Livermore) ; Andrews, Brett ; Aquino-Ortíz, Erik ; Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso ; Argudo-Fernández, Maria ; Armengaud, Eric (IRFU, SPhN, Saclay) ; Aubourg, Eric (APC, Paris) ; Avila-Reese, Vladimir (UNAM, Inst. Astron.) ; Badenes, Carles (Pittsburgh U.) ; Bailey, Stephen (LBL, Berkeley) ; Barger, Kathleen A. ; Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge ; Bartosz, Curtis ; Bates, Dominic ; Baumgarten, Falk (Potsdam, Astrophys. Inst.) ; Bautista, Julian (Utah U.) ; Beaton, Rachael (Kyushu Sangyo U. ; Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Beers, Timothy C. (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. ; Notre Dame U.) ; Belfiore, Francesco ; Bender, Chad F. (Penn State U.) ; Berlind, Andreas A. (Vanderbilt U.) ; Bernardi, Mariangela (Pennsylvania U.) ; Beutler, Florian (LBL, Berkeley) ; Bird, Jonathan C. (Vanderbilt U.) ; Bizyaev, Dmitry (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U. ; Sternberg Astron. Inst.) ; Blanc, Guillermo A. (IRFU, Saclay ; Paris Observ. ; APC, Paris) ; Blomqvist, Michael (Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Bolton, Adam S. (Utah U.) ; Boquien, Médéric ; Borissova, Jura (Argelander Inst. Astron. ; Bologna Observ. ; NASA, Goddard ; Rome Observ. ; Sofiya, Inst. Astron.) ; van den Bosch, Remco ; Bovy, Jo (Toronto U., Astron. Dept.) ; Brandt, William N. (Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys.) ; Brinkmann, Jonathan (Apache Point Observ.) ; Brownstein, Joel R. (Utah U.) ; Bundy, Kevin (UC, Santa Cruz) ; Burgasser, Adam J. (UCSD) ; Burtin, Etienne (IRFU, Saclay) ; Busca, Nicolás G. (APC, Paris) ; Cappellari, Michele (Oxford U.) ; Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado ; Carlberg, Joleen K. (Carnegie Inst., Wash., D.C., DTM) ; Carnero Rosell, Aurelio ; Carrera, Ricardo (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Cherinka, Brian (Pittsburgh U.) ; Cheung, Edmond (Maryland U.) ; Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo ; Chiappini, Cristina ; Choi, Peter Doohyun ; Chojnowski, Drew ; Chuang, Chia-Hsun (Madrid, IFT) ; Chung, Haeun ; Cirolini, Rafael Fernando ; Clerc, Nicolas (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Cohen, Roger E. (Bell Labs) ; Comparat, Johan (Madrid, IFT) ; da Costa, Luiz (Rio de Janeiro Observ.) ; Cousinou, Marie-Claude (Marseille, CPPM) ; Covey, Kevin (Lowell Observ. ; Western Washington U.) ; Crane, Jeffrey D. (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Croft, Rupert A. C. (Bristol U.) ; Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene (Mexico U., ICN) ; Cuadra, Daniel Garrido ; Cunha, Katia (Rio de Janeiro Observ.) ; Damke, Guillermo J. (Virginia U.) ; Darling, Jeremy (Colorado U.) ; Davies, Roger (Jodrell Bank) ; Dawson, Kyle (Utah U.) ; de la Macorra, Axel (Mexico U.) ; De Lee, Nathan (Northern Kentucky U.) ; Delubac, Timothée (LASTRO Observ.) ; Di Mille, Francesco ; Diamond-Stanic, Aleks ; Cano-Díaz, Mariana ; Donor, John ; Downes, Juan José (Caracas, U. Central ; Merida, CIDA) ; Drory, Niv (Texas U., McDonald Observ.) ; Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des (IRFU, SPP, Saclay) ; Duckworth, Christopher J. ; Dwelly, Tom (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Dyer, Jamie ; Ebelke, Garrett (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Eisenstein, Daniel J. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Emsellem, Eric ; Eracleous, Mike (Penn State U.) ; Escoffier, Stephanie (Marseille, CPPM) ; Evans, Michael L. (MIT, MKI) ; Fan, Xiaohui (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Fernández-Alvar, Emma (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Fernandez-Trincado, J.G. (Besancon Observ.) ; Feuillet, Diane K. ; Finoguenov, Alexis (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE ; Helsinki U.) ; Fleming, Scott W. (St. Xavier U., Chicago) ; Font-Ribera, Andreu (LBL, Berkeley ; U. Coll. London) ; Fredrickson, Alexander ; Freischlad, Gordon ; Frinchaboy, Peter M. (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Galbany, Lluís (Pittsburgh U.) ; Garcia-Dias, R. ; García-Hernández, D.A. (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Gaulme, Patrick (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Geisler, Doug (Concepcion U.) ; Gelfand, Joseph D. (United Arab Emirates U.) ; Gil-Marín, Héctor (ICC, Barcelona U. ; ICE, Bellaterra) ; Gillespie, Bruce A. (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Goddard, Daniel (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Grabowski, Kathleen ; Green, Paul J. (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.) ; Grier, Catherine J. (Ohio State) ; Gunn, James E. (Princeton U.) ; Guo, Hong (Utah U.) ; Guy, Julien (Paris U., VI-VII) ; Hagen, Alex (Penn State U., Astron. Astrophys.) ; Hahn, ChangHoon (New York U.) ; Hall, Matthew ; Harding, Paul (Case Western Reserve U.) ; Hasselquist, Sten (New Mexico State U.) ; Hawley, Suzanne L. (Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept.) ; Hearty, Fred (Penn State U.) ; Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez (Heidelberg U.) ; Ho, Shirley (Carnegie Mellon U.) ; Hogg, David W. (New York U., CCPP) ; Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly (Vanderbilt U.) ; Holtzman, Jon A. (New Mexico State U.) ; Holzer, Parker H. ; Huehnerhoff, Joseph (Apache Point Observ.) ; Hutchinson, Timothy A. (Utah U.) ; Hwang, Ho Seong (Oregon U.) ; Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J. ; Ilha, Gabriele da Silva ; Ivans, Inese I. (Utah U.) ; Ivory, KeShawn ; Jackson, Kelly (TRIUMF) ; Jensen, Trey W. ; Johnson, Jennifer A. (Ohio State U., CCAPP ; Ohio State U., Dept. Astron.) ; Jones, Amy (UC, Santa Cruz, Inst. Part. Phys.) ; Jönsson, Henrik ; Jullo, Eric (Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Kamble, Vikrant (Utah U.) ; Kinemuchi, Karen (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Kirkby, David (UC, Irvine) ; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Klaene, Mark (Apache Point Observ.) ; Knapp, Gillian R. (Princeton U. Observ.) ; Kneib, Jean-Paul (LASTRO Observ. ; Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Kollmeier, Juna A. (Carnegie Inst. Observ. ; Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study) ; Lacerna, Ivan (IA-UNAM) ; Lane, Richard R. (Chile U., Catolica) ; Lang, Dustin (Carnegie Mellon U.) ; Law, David R. (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Lazarz, Daniel ; Le Goff, Jean-Marc ; Liang, Fu-Heng ; Li, Cheng (CUST, SKLPDE ; Hefei, CUST) ; LI, Hongyu ; Lima, Marcos (LIneA, Rio de Janeiro ; Sao Paulo U.) ; Lin, Lihwai (Suzhou U.) ; Lin, Yen-Ting (Taipei, Inst. Astron. Astrophys. ; Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.) ; de Lis, Sara Bertran ; Liu, Chao (Hefei, CUST) ; Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza ; Long, Dan (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Lucatello, Sara (Padua Observ.) ; Lundgren, Britt (Wisconsin U., Madison) ; MacDonald, Nicholas K. ; Machado, Alice Deconto ; MacLeod, Chelsea L. (Edinburgh U.) ; Mahadevan, Suvrath (Penn State U.) ; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba (LIneA, Rio de Janeiro ; Rio de Janeiro Observ.) ; Maiolino, Roberto (Arcetri Observ.) ; Majewski, Steven R. (Virginia U.) ; Malanushenko, Elena (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Malanushenko, Viktor (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Manchado, Arturo (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Mao, Shude (Jodrell Bank ; Tianjin Normal U.) ; Maraston, Claudia (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Marques-Chaves, Rui ; Masters, Karen L. (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; McBride, Cameron K. (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.) ; McDermid, Richard M. (Leiden Observ.) ; McGrath, Brianne ; McGreer, Ian D. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Peña, Nicolás Medina ; Melendez, Matthew ; Merloni, Andrea (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Merrifield, Michael R. (Nottingham U.) ; Meszaros, Szabolcs (Eotvos U.) ; Meza, Andres (Andres Bello Natl. U.) ; Minchev, Ivan (Potsdam, Astrophys. Inst.) ; Minniti, Dante (European Southern Observ.) ; Miyaji, Takamitsu (INS, Tokyo) ; More, Surhud (Tokyo U., IPMU) ; Mulchaey, John (Carnegie Inst. Observ.) ; Müller-Sánchez, Francisco (Buenos Aires, CONICET) ; Muna, Demitri (New York U.) ; Munoz, Ricardo R. (CERN) ; Myers, Adam D. (Wyoming U.) ; Nair, Preethi (Toronto U., Astron. Dept.) ; Nandra, Kirpal (Garching, Max Planck Inst.) ; Nascimento, Janaina Correa do ; Negrete, Alenka ; Ness, Melissa ; Newman, Jeffrey A. (Pittsburgh U.) ; Nichol, Robert C. (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Nidever, David L. (Natl. Solar Observ., Tucson) ; Nitschelm, Christian (Geneva Observ.) ; Ntelis, Pierros (APC, Paris) ; O'Connell, Julia E. (Texas Christian U.) ; Oelkers, Ryan J. (Texas A-M) ; Oravetz, Audrey (Apache Point Observ. ; NMSU, Las Cruces) ; Oravetz, Daniel (Apache Point Observ. ; New Mexico State U.) ; Pace, Zach ; Padilla, Nelson (Chile U., Catolica) ; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie (Munich, Tech. U.) ; Palicio, Pedro Alonso ; Pan, Kaike (Apache Point Observ.) ; Parikh, Taniya ; Pâris, Isabelle (Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Park, Changbom (Korea Inst. Advanced Study, Seoul) ; Patten, Alim Y. ; Peirani, Sebastien (Paris, Inst. Astrophys.) ; Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Penny, Samantha ; Percival, Will J. (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Perez-Fournon, Ismael (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Petitjean, Patrick (Paris, Inst. Astrophys.) ; Pieri, Matthew M. (Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Pinsonneault, Marc (Ohio State U.) ; Pisani, Alice (Marseille, CPPM) ; Poleski, Radosław (Ohio State U., Dept. Astron. ; Warsaw U. Observ.) ; Prada, Francisco (Madrid, IFT ; Sierra Nevada Observ.) ; Prakash, Abhishek (Pittsburgh U.) ; Queiroz, Anna Bárbara de Andrade ; Raddick, M. Jordan (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Raichoor, Anand (IRFU, Saclay) ; Rembold, Sandro Barboza ; Richstein, Hannah ; Riffel, Rogemar A. (UFRGS ; UFSM) ; Riffel, Rogério ; Rix, Hans-Walter (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. Astron.) ; Robin, Annie C. (Franche Comte U.) ; Rockosi, Constance M. (UC, Santa Cruz) ; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio (Madrid, Autonoma U. ; Madrid, IFT) ; Roman-Lopes, A. (La Serena U.) ; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos (Florida U.) ; Rosado, Margarita (UNAM, Inst. Astron.) ; Ross, Ashley J. (Ohio State U., CCAPP ; Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Rossi, Graziano (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; INFN, Rome2 ; Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Ruan, John (Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept.) ; Ruggeri, Rossana (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Rykoff, Eli S. (KIPAC, Menlo Park ; SLAC) ; Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE ; Munich U. Observ.) ; Salvato, Mara (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Sánchez, Ariel G. (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Aguado, David Sánchez ; Sánchez-Gallego, José R. ; Santana, Felipe A. ; Santiago, Basílio Xavier (LIneA, Rio de Janeiro ; Rio Grande do Sul U.) ; Sayres, Conor (Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept.) ; Schiavon, Ricardo P. (Gemini Observ., Hilo ; Liverpool John Moores U.) ; Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva ; Schlafly, Edward F. (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. Astron.) ; Schlegel, David J. (LBL, Berkeley) ; Schneider, Donald P. (Penn State U.) ; Schultheis, Mathias (Cote d'Azur Observ., Nice) ; Schuster, William J. (Oxford U.) ; Schwope, Axel (Potsdam, Astrophys. Inst.) ; Seo, Hee-Jong (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Shao, Zhengyi (Caltech) ; Shen, Shiyin (Shanghai, Astron. Observ.) ; Shetrone, Matthew (Texas U.) ; Shull, Michael (Colorado U., CASA) ; Simon, Joshua D. (Carnegie Inst. Observ.) ; Skinner, Danielle ; Skrutskie, M.F. (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Slosar, Anže (Brookhaven) ; Smith, Verne V. (NOAO, Tucson) ; Sobeck, Jennifer S. (Chicago U. ; Cote d'Azur Observ., Nice ; Michigan State U., JINA) ; Sobreira, Flavia (Campinas State U. ; LIneA, Rio de Janeiro) ; Somers, Garrett (Ohio State U., Dept. Astron.) ; Souto, Diogo ; Stark, David V. ; Stassun, Keivan (Vanderbilt U.) ; Stauffer, Fritz (Apache Point Observ.) ; Steinmetz, Matthias (Garching, Max Planck Inst.) ; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa (Rio Grande do Sul U.) ; Streblyanska, Alina (IAC, La Laguna ; Laguna U., Tenerife) ; Stringfellow, Guy S. (Colorado U.) ; Suárez, Genaro ; Sun, Jing (Changchun, Northeast Normal U.) ; Suzuki, Nao (LBL, Berkeley ; Tokyo U., IPMU) ; Szigeti, Laszlo ; Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Tang, Baitian (ECIST, Fuzhou) ; Tao, Charling (Marseille, CPPM ; Tsinghua U., Beijing) ; Tayar, Jamie (Ohio State U., Dept. Astron.) ; Tembe, Mita ; Teske, Johanna (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Thakar, Aniruddha R. (Johns Hopkins U.) ; Thomas, Daniel (Portsmouth U., ICG) ; Thompson, Benjamin A. (Texas Christian U.) ; Tinker, Jeremy L. (New York U.) ; Tissera, Patricia (Andres Bello Natl. U. ; Buenos Aires, CONICET ; Buenos Aires, IAFE ; Millenium Inst. Astro., Santiago) ; Tojeiro, Rita (St. Andrews U.) ; Toledo, Hector Hernandez (UNAM, Inst. Astron.) ; de la Torre, Sylvain (Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Tremonti, Christy (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.) ; Troup, Nicholas W. (Virginia U., Astron. Dept.) ; Valenzuela, Octavio (UNAM, Inst. Astron.) ; Valpuesta, Inma Martinez (IAC, La Laguna ; Marseille, Lab. Astrophys.) ; Vargas-González, Jaime ; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana (Mexico U. ; Mexico U.) ; Vazquez, Jose Alberto (Brookhaven) ; Villanova, Sandro (Padua U., Astron. Dept.) ; Vivek, M. ; Vogt, Nicole (New Mexico State U.) ; Wake, David (Wisconsin U., Madison) ; Walterbos, Rene (New Mexico State U.) ; Wang, Yuting (Dalian U. 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High Energy Phys.) ; Zhou, Zhi-Min (Beijing, GUCAS ; Joint Lab. of Optical Astron. ; NAOC, Beijing) ; Zhu, Guangtun B. ; Zoccali, Manuela (Chile U., Catolica) ; Zou, Hu (Joint Lab. of Optical Astron.)
Publication	2017
Imprint	2017-02-28
Note	Submitted to Astronomical Journal
In:	Astron. J. 154 (2017) 28
DOI	10.3847/1538-3881/aa7567
Subject category	astro-ph.GA ; Astrophysics and Astronomy
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 ratio 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 redshift of z = 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between redshifts 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 AGN and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5-meter 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 July 2016.
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