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Title: | The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III | Authors: | Alam, Shadab Albareti, Franco D. Allende Prieto, Carlos Anders, F. Anderson, Scott F. Anderton, Timothy Andrews, Brett H. Armengaud, Eric Aubourg, Éric Bailey, Stephen Basu, Sarbani Bautista, Julian E. Beaton, Rachael L. Beers, Timothy C. Bender, Chad F. Berlind, Andreas A. Beutler, Florian Bhardwaj, Vaishali Bird, Jonathan C. Bizyaev, Dmitry Blake, Cullen H. Blanton, Michael R. Blomqvist, Michael Bochanski, John J. Bolton, Adam S. Bovy, Jo Shelden Bradley, A. Brandt, W. N. Brauer, D. E. Brinkmann, J. Brown, Peter J. Brownstein, Joel R. Burden, Angela Burtin, Etienne Busca, Nicolás G. Cai, Zheng Capozzi, Diego Carnero Rosell, Aurelio Carr, Michael A. CARRERA, JIMENEZ RICARDO JESUS Chambers, K. C. Chaplin, William James Chen, Yen-Chi Chiappini, Cristina Chojnowski, S. Drew Chuang, Chia-Hsun Clerc, Nicolas Comparat, Johan Covey, Kevin Croft, Rupert A. C. Cuesta, Antonio J. Cunha, Katia da Costa, Luiz N. Da Rio, Nicola Davenport, James R. A. Dawson, Kyle S. De Lee, Nathan Delubac, Timothée Deshpande, Rohit Dhital, Saurav Dutra-Ferreira, Letícia Dwelly, Tom Ealet, Anne Ebelke, Garrett L. Edmondson, Edward M. Eisenstein, Daniel J. Ellsworth, Tristan Elsworth, Yvonne Epstein, Courtney R. Eracleous, Michael Escoffier, Stephanie Esposito, Massimiliano Evans, Michael L. Fan, Xiaohui Fernández-Alvar, Emma Feuillet, Diane Filiz Ak, Nurten Finley, Hayley Finoguenov, Alexis Flaherty, Kevin Fleming, Scott W. Font-Ribera, Andreu Foster, Jonathan Frinchaboy, Peter M. Galbraith-Frew, J. G. García, Rafael A. García-Hernández, D. A. García Pérez, Ana E. Gaulme, Patrick Ge, Jian Génova-Santos, R. Georgakakis, A. Ghezzi, Luan Gillespie, Bruce A. GIRARDI, Leo Alberto Goddard, Daniel Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A. González Hernández, Jonay I. Grebel, Eva K. Green, Paul J. Grieb, Jan Niklas Grieves, Nolan Gunn, James E. Guo, Hong Harding, Paul Hasselquist, Sten Hawley, Suzanne L. Hayden, Michael Hearty, Fred R. Hekker, Saskia Ho, Shirley Hogg, David W. Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly Holtzman, Jon A. Honscheid, Klaus Huber, Daniel Huehnerhoff, Joseph Ivans, Inese I. Jiang, Linhua Johnson, Jennifer A. Kinemuchi, Karen Kirkby, David Kitaura, Francisco Klaene, Mark A. Knapp, Gillian R. Kneib, Jean-Paul Koenig, Xavier P. Lam, Charles R. Lan, Ting-Wen Lang, Dustin Laurent, Pierre Le Goff, Jean-Marc Leauthaud, Alexie Lee, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Licquia, Timothy C. Liu, Jian Long, Daniel C. López-Corredoira, Martín Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego LUCATELLO, Sara Lundgren, Britt Lupton, Robert H. Mack, Claude E., III Mahadevan, Suvrath Maia, Marcio A. G. Majewski, Steven R. Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Manchado, A. Manera, Marc Mao, Qingqing Maraston, Claudia Marchwinski, Robert C. Margala, Daniel Martell, Sarah L. Martig, Marie Masters, Karen L. Mathur, Savita McBride, Cameron K. McGehee, Peregrine M. McGreer, Ian D. McMahon, Richard G. Ménard, Brice Menzel, Marie-Luise Merloni, Andrea Mészáros, Szabolcs Miller, Adam A. Miralda-Escudé, Jordi Miyatake, Hironao Montero-Dorta, Antonio D. More, Surhud Morganson, Eric Morice-Atkinson, Xan Morrison, Heather L. Mosser, Benôit Muna, Demitri Myers, Adam D. Nandra, Kirpal Newman, Jeffrey A. Neyrinck, Mark Nguyen, Duy Cuong Nichol, Robert C. Nidever, David L. Noterdaeme, Pasquier Nuza, Sebastián E. O'Connell, Julia E. O'Connell, Robert W. O'Connell, Ross Ogando, Ricardo L. C. Olmstead, Matthew D. Oravetz, Audrey E. Oravetz, Daniel J. Osumi, Keisuke Owen, Russell Padgett, Deborah L. Padmanabhan, Nikhil Paegert, Martin Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie Pan, Kaike Parejko, John K. Pâris, Isabelle Park, Changbom Pattarakijwanich, Petchara Pellejero-Ibanez, M. Pepper, Joshua Percival, Will J. Pérez-Fournon, Ismael Ṕrez-Ra`fols, Ignasi Petitjean, Patrick Pieri, Matthew M. Pinsonneault, Marc H. Porto de Mello, Gustavo F. Prada, Francisco Prakash, Abhishek Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Protopapas, Pavlos Raddick, M. Jordan Rahman, Mubdi Reid, Beth A. Rich, James Rix, Hans-Walter Robin, Annie C. Rockosi, Constance M. Rodrigues, Thaíse S. Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio Roe, Natalie A. Ross, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Rossi, Graziano Ruan, John J. Rubiño-Martín, J. A. Rykoff, Eli S. Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador Salvato, Mara Samushia, Lado Sánchez, Ariel G. Santiago, Basílio Sayres, Conor Schiavon, Ricardo P. Schlegel, David J. Schmidt, Sarah J. Schneider, Donald P. Schultheis, Mathias Schwope, Axel D. Scóccola, C. G. Scott, Caroline Sellgren, Kris Seo, Hee-Jong Serenelli, Aldo Shane, Neville Shen, Yue Shetrone, Matthew Shu, Yiping Silva Aguirre, V. Sivarani, Thirupathi Skrutskie, M. F. Slosar, Anže Smith, Verne V. Sobreira, Flávia Souto, Diogo Stassun, Keivan G. Steinmetz, Matthias Stello, Dennis Strauss, Michael A. Streblyanska, Alina Suzuki, Nao Swanson, Molly E. C. Tan, Jonathan C. Tayar, Jamie Terrien, Ryan C. Thakar, Aniruddha R. Thomas, Daniel Thomas, Neil Thompson, Benjamin A. Tinker, Jeremy L. Tojeiro, Rita Troup, Nicholas W. Vargas-Magaña, Mariana Vazquez, Jose A. Verde, Licia VIEL, MATTEO Vogt, Nicole P. Wake, David A. Wang, Ji Weaver, Benjamin A. Weinberg, David H. Weiner, Benjamin J. White, Martin Wilson, John C. Wisniewski, John P. Wood-Vasey, W. M. Ye`che, Christophe York, Donald G. Zakamska, Nadia L. Zamora, O. Zasowski, Gail Zehavi, Idit Zhao, Gong-Bo Zheng, Zheng Zhou, Xu Zhou, Zhimin Zou, Hu Zhu, Guangtun |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES | Number: | 219 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 12 | Abstract: | The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg<SUP>2</SUP> of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg<SUP>2</SUP> of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg<SUP>2</SUP>; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra. | Acknowledgments: | SDSS-III Data Release 12 has made use of data products from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology. SDSS-III Data Release 12 based APOGEE targeting decisions in part on data collected by the Kepler mission. Funding for the Kepler mission is provided by the NASA Science Mission directorate. SDSS-III Data Release 12 based MARVELS targeting decisions in part on the Guide Star Catalog 2.3., a joint project of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino. STSI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, for the NASA under contract NAS5-26555. The participation of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino is supported by the Italian Council for Research in Astronomy. Additional support is provided by ESO, Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, the International GEMINI project and the ESA Astrophysics Division. SDSS-III Data Release 12 selected a significant number of BOSS ancillary targets based on data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer , which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the NASA. SDSS-III Data Release 12 made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Robitaille Tollerud 2013 ). SDSS-III Data Release 12 made use of the Exoplanet Orbit Database and the Exoplanet Data Explorer at exoplanets.org. SDSS-III Data Release 12 made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the NASA. SDSS-III Data Release 12 made use of data from Pan-STARRS1. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the NASA under grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/ . SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23526 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12 | ISSN: | 0067-0049 | DOI: | 10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ApJS..219...12A | Fulltext: | open |
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