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Albareti, F. D.; Allende Prieto, C.; Almeida, Andres; Anders, Friedrich; Anderson, Scott; Andrews, Brett H.; Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso; Argudo-Fernández, Maria; Armengaud, Eric; Aubourg, Eric; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Badenes, Carles; Bailey, Stephen; Barbuy, Beatriz; Barger, Kat; Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge; Bartosz, Curtis; Basu, Sarbani; Bates, Dominic; Battaglia, G.; Baumgarten, Falk; Baur, Julien; Bautista, Julian; Beers, Timothy C.; Belfiore, Francesco; Bershady, Matthew; Bertran de Lis, S.; Bird, Jonathan C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Blanton, Michael; Blomqvist, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Borissova, J.; Bovy, Jo; Nielsen Brandt, William; Brinkmann, Jonathan; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bundy, Kevin; Burtin, Etienne; Busca, Nicolás G.; Orlando Camacho Chavez, Hugo; Cano Díaz, M.; Cappellari, Michele; Carrera, R.; Chen, Yanping; Cherinka, Brian; Cheung, Edmond; Chiappini, Cristina; Chojnowski, Drew; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Chung, Haeun; Cirolini, Rafael Fernando; Clerc, Nicolas; Cohen, Roger E.; Comerford, Julia M.; Comparat, Johan; Correa do Nascimento, Janaina; Cousinou, Marie-Claude; Covey, Kevin; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Croft, Rupert; Cunha, Katia; Darling, Jeremy; Davidson, James W., Jr.; Dawson, Kyle; Da Costa, Luiz; Da Silva Ilha, Gabriele; Deconto Machado, Alice; Delubac, Timothée; De Lee, Nathan; De la Macorra, Axel; De la Torre, Sylvain; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Donor, John; Downes, Juan Jose; Drory, Niv; Du, Cheng; Du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion; Dwelly, Tom; Ebelke, Garrett; Eigenbrot, Arthur; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Emsellem, Eric; Eracleous, Michael; Escoffier, Stephanie; Evans, Michael L.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Fan, Xiaohui; Favole, Ginevra; Fernandez-Alvar, Emma; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Feuillet, Diane; Fleming, Scott W.; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Freischlad, Gordon; Frinchaboy, Peter; Fu, Hai; Gao, Yang et al.
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 233, Issue 2, article id. 25, 25 pp. (2017).
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Description
The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began
observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache
Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping
Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS
contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey
(TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources
(SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV,
Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390
spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies
from MaNGA. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing the
Sloan Extended QUasar, Emission-line galaxy, Luminous red galaxy Survey
(SEQUELS), which also targeted variability-selected objects and
X-ray-selected objects. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III
BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift
classification, and new reductions of the SDSS-III APOGEE-1 data,
improving stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. DR13
provides more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Value-added
target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS and an updated
red-clump catalog for APOGEE are also available. This paper describes
the location and format of the data and provides references to important
technical papers. The SDSS web site, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to
the data, tutorials, examples of data access, and extensive
documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the
first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from
the planned ∼6 yr operations of SDSS-IV.
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