Published July 1, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

Blanton, Michael
Bershady, Matthew
Abolfathi, Bela
Albareti, Franco D.
Prieto, Carlos
Almeida, Andres
Alonso-García, Javier
Anders, Friedrich
Anderson, Scott F.
Andrews, Brett
Aquino-Ortíz, Erik
Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso
Argudo-Fernández, Maria
Armengaud, Eric
Aubourg, Eric
Avila-Reese, Vladimir
Badenes, Carles
Bailey, Stephen
Barger, A.
Barrera-Ballesteros, Jo
Bartosz, Curtis
Bates, Dominic
Baumgarten, Falk
Bautista, Julian
Beaton, Rachael
Beers, Timothy C.
Belfiore, Francesco
Bender, Chad F.
Berlind, A.
Bernardi, Mariangela
Beutler, Florian
Bird, Jonathan
Bizyaev, Dmitry
Blanc, A.
Blomqvist, Michael
Bolton, Adam S.
Boquien, Mederic
Borissova, Jura
Bosch, Remco van Den
Bovy, Jo
Brandt, William N.
Brinkmann, Jonathan
Brownstein, R.
Bundy, Kevin
Burgasser, Adam J.
Burtin, Etienne
Busca, Nicolás
Cappellari, Michele
Carigi, Maria Leticia Delgado
Carlberg, Joleen K.
Rosell, Aurelio Carnero
Carrera, Ricardo
Chanover, Nancy J.
Cherinka, Brian
Cheung, Edmond
Chew, Yilen Gómez Maqueo
Chiappini, Cristina
Choi, Peter Doohyun
Chojnowski, Drew
Chuang, Chia-Hsun
Chung, Haeun
Cirolini, Rafael Fernando
Clerc, Nicolas
Cohen, Roger
Comparat, Johan
Costa, Luiz Da
Cousinou, Marie-Claude
Covey, Kevin
Crane, Jeffrey D.
Croft, A.
Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene
Cuadra, Daniel
Cunha, Katia
Damke, Guillermo J.
Darling, Jeremy
Davies, Roger
Dawson, Kyle
Macorra, Axel
Dell'agli, Flavia
Lee, Nathan De
Delubac, Timothee
Mille, Francesco Di
Diamond-Stanic, Aleks
Cano-Díaz, Mariana
Donor, John
Downes, Juan José
Drory, Niv
Bourboux, Hélion Du Mas Des
Duckworth, Christophe
Dwelly, Tom
Dyer, Jamie
Ebelke, Garrett
Eigenbrot, Arthur D.
Eisenstein, Daniel
Emsellem, Eric
Eracleous, Mike
Escoffier, Stephanie
Evans, Michael
Xiao, Xiaohui
Fernández-Alvar, Emma
Fernández-Trincado, J. G.
Feuillet, Diane K.
Finoguenov, Alex
Fleming, Scott W.
Font-Ribera, Andreu
Fredrickson, Fred
Freischlad, Gordon
Frinchaboy, M.
Fuentes, Carla E.
Galbany, Lluís
Garcia-Dias, R.
Hernández, A.
Gaulme, Patrick
Geisler, Doug
Gelfand, Joseph
Gil-Marín, Héctor
Gillespie, A.
Goddard, Daniel
Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
Grabowski, Kathleen
Green, Paul
Grier, Catherine J.
Gunn, James E.
Ho, Hong
Guy, Julien
Hagen, Alex
Ho, Changhoon
Hall, Matthew
Harding, Paul
Hasselquist, Sten
Hawley, Suzanne L.
Hearty, Fred
Hernández, Jonay I. Gonzalez
Ho, Shirley
Hogg, David
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
Holtzman, A.
Park, Parker H.
Huehnerhoff, Hu
Hutchinson, Hu
Seo, Ho Seong
Ibarra-Medel, Héctor J.
Ilha, Gabriele da Silva
Ivans, Ivan
Ivory, Keshawn
Jackson, Kelly
Jensen, Trey W.
Johnson, John
Jones, Amy
Jönsson, Henrik
Jullo, Eric
Kamble, Vikrant
Kinemuchi, Karen
Kirkby, David
Kitaura, Francisco
Klaene, Mark
Knapp, Gillian R.
Kneib, Jean-Paul
Kollmeier, A.
Lacerna, Ivan
Lane, Richard R.
Lang, Dustin
Law, David
Lazarz, Daniel
Lee, Youngbae
Le Goff, Jean-Marc
Lian, Fu-Heng
Li, Cheng
Li, Hongyu
Lian, Jianhui
Lima, Marc
Lin, Lihwai
Lin, Ting
Lis, Sara
Liu, Chao
Lizaola, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza
Long, Dan
Lucatello, Sara
Lundgren, Britt
Nichol, Nicholas K.
Machado, Alice
Macleod, Chelsea L.
Mahadevan, Suvrath
Maia, Marc
Maiolino, Roberto
Majewski, Steven R.
Malanushenko, Elena
Malanushenko, Viktor
Manchado, Arturo
Mao, Shude
Maraston, Mara
Marques-Chaves, Rui
Thomas, Thomas
Masters, Karen L.
Mcbride, Cameron K.
Mcdermid, M.
Mcgrath, Brianne
Mcgreer, Ian D.
Medina Peña, Nicolás
Melendez, Matthew
Merloni, Andrea
Merrifield, Michael
Meszaros, Szabolcs
Meza, Andres
Minchev, Ivan
Minniti, Dante
Miyaji, Takamitsu
More, Surhud
Mulchaey, John
Sánchez, Francisco
Muna, Demitri
Munoz, Ricardo R.
Myers, Adam D.
Nair, Preethi
Nandra, Kirpal
Nascimento, Janaina Correa Do
Negrete, Alenka
Ness, Melissa
Newman, Jeffrey
Nichol, Robert C.
Nidever, David
Nitschelm, Christian
Ntelis, Pierros
O'connell, Julia E.
Oelkers, Ryan J.
Oravetz, Audrey
Oravetz, Daniel
Pace, Zach
Padilla, Nelson
Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
Palicio, Pedro Alonso
Pan, Kai
Parejko, John
Parikh, Taniya
Pâris, Isabelle
Park, Changbom
Patten, Alim Y.
Peirani, Sébastien
Pellejero-Ibanez, Marc
Penny, Samantha
Percival, Will J.
Perez-Fournon, Ismael
Petitjean, Patrick
Pieri, Matthew
Pinsonneault, Marc
Pisani, Alice
Poleski, Radosław
Prada, Francisco
Prakash, Abhishek
d'Anna, B.
Raddick, M. Jordan
Raichoor, Anand
Rembold, Sandro
Richstein, Hannah
Riffel, Rogemar A.
Riffel, Rogério
Rix, Hans-Walter
Robin, Annie C.
Rockosi, Constance M.
Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio
Roman-Lopes, A.
Román-Zúñiga, Carlos
Rosado, Margarita
Ross, Ashley J.
Rossi, Graziano
Ruan, John
Ruggeri, Rossana
Rykoff, Eli S.
Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
Salvato, Mara
Sánchez, Ariel G.
Aguado, D. S.
Sánchez-Gallego, José R.
Santana, Felipe A.
Santiago, Basílio Xavier
Sayres, Conor
Schiavon, Ricardo P.
Schimoia, Jaderson da Silva
Schlafly, Edward F.
Schlegel, David
Schneider, Donald P.
Schultheis, Mathias
Schuster, William J.
Schwope, Axel
Seo, Hee-Jong
Shao, Zhengyi
Shen, Shiyin
Shetrone, Matthew
Shull, Michael
Simon, Joshua D.
Skinner, Danielle
Skrutskie, M.
Slosar, Anže
Smith, Verne V.
Sobeck, Jennifer S.
Sobreira, Flavia
Somers, Garrett
Souto, Diogo
Stark, David
Stassun, Keivan
Stauffer, Fritz
Steinmetz, Matthias
Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
Streblyanska, Alina
Stringfellow, Guy S.
Suárez, Genaro
Sun, Jing
Suzuki, Nao
Szigeti, Laszlo
Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
Tang, Baitian
Tao, Charling
Tayar, Jamie
Tembe, Mita
Teske, Johanna
Thakar, Aniruddha R.
Thomas, Daniel
Thompson, Benjamin A.
Tinker, Jeremy L.
Tissera, Patricia
Tojeiro, Rita
Toledo, Hector Hernandez
de La Torre, Sylvain
Tremonti, Christy
Troup, Nicholas W.
Valenzuela, Octavio
Valpuesta, Inma Martinez
Vargas-González, Jaime
Vargas-Magaña, Mariana
Vazquez, Jose Alberto
Villanova, Sandro
Vivek, M.
Vogt, Nicole
Wake, David
Walterbos, Rene
Wang, Yuting
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Weijmans, Anne-Marie
Weinberg, David H.
Westfall, Kyle B.
Whelan, David G.
Wild, Vivienne
Wilson, John
Wood-Vasey, W. M.
Wylezalek, Dominika
Xiao, Ting
Yan, Renbin
Yang, Meng
Ybarra, Jason E.
Yeche, Christophe
Zakamska, Nadia
Zamora, Olga
Zarrouk, Pauline
Zasowski, Gail
Zhang, Kai
Zhao, Gong-Bo
Zheng, Zheng
Zhou, Xu
Zhou, Zhi-Min
Zhu, Guangtun B.
Zoccali, Manuela
Zou, Hu
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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 ). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between 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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