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Mao, Shude; Manchado, A.; Malanushenko, Viktor; Malanushenko, Elena; Majewski, Steven R.; Maiolino, Roberto; Geimba Maia, Marcio Antonio; Mahadevan, Suvrath; MacLeod, Chelsea L.; Deconto Machado, Alice; MacDonald, Nicholas K.; Lundgren, Britt; Lucatello, Sara; Long, Dan; de Icaza Lizaola, Miguel Angel C.; Liu, Chao; Bertran de Lis, S.; Lin, Yen-Ting; Lin, Lihwai; Lima, Marcos; Lian, Jianhui; Li, Hongyu; Li, Cheng; Liang, Fu-Heng; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; Lee, Youngbae; Lazarz, Daniel; Law, David R.; Lang, Dustin; Lane, Richard R.; Lacerna, Ivan; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Knapp, Gillian R.; Klaene, Mark; Kitaura, F.-S.; Kirkby, David; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kamble, Vikrant; Jullo, Eric; Jönsson, H.; Jones, Amy; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jensen, Trey W.; Jackson, Kelly; Ivory, KeShawn; Ivans, Inese I.; da Silva Ilha, Gabriele; Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J.; Hwang, Ho Seong; Hutchinson, Timothy A.; Huehnerhoff, Joseph; Holzer, Parker H.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly; Hogg, David W.; Ho, Shirley; Gonzalez Hernández, J. I.; Hearty, Fred; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hasselquist, Sten; Harding, Paul; Hall, Matthew; Hahn, ChangHoon; Hagen, Alex; Guy, Julien; Guo, Hong; Gunn, James E.; Grier, Catherine J.; Grabowski, Kathleen; Green, Paul J.; Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta; Goddard, Daniel; Gillespie, Bruce A.; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Gelfand, Joseph D.; Geisler, Doug; Gaulme, Patrick; García-Hernández, D. A.; Garcia-Dias, R.; Galbany, Lluís; Fuentes, Carla E.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Freischlad, Gordon; Fredrickson, Alexander; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Fleming, Scott W.; Finoguenov, Alexis; Feuillet, Diane K.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Fernández-Alvar, Emma; Fan, Xiaohui; Evans, Michael L.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Eracleous, Mike; Emsellem, Eric; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Eigenbrot, Arthur D.; Ebelke, Garrett; Dyer, Jamie et al.
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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 154, Issue 1, article id. 28, 35 pp. (2017).
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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 ratios 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 z∼
0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is
mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between 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 AGNs
and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey
(TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5
m Sloan Foundation Telescope at the Apache Point Observatory;
observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second
near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5 m 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 2016 July.
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