The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Aguado, D. S.
Ahumada, Romina
Almeida, Andres
Anderson, Scott F.
Andrews, Brett H.
Anguiano, Borja
Aquino Ortiz, Erik
Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso
Argudo-Fernandez, Maria
Aubert, Marie
Avila-Reese, Vladimir
Badenes, Carles
Rembold, Sandro Barboza
Barger, Kat
Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge
Bates, Dominic
Bautista, Julian
Beaton, Rachael L.
Beers, Timothy C.
Belfiore, Francesco
Bernardi, Mariangela
Bershady, Matthew
Beutler, Florian
Bird, Jonathan
Bizyaev, Dmitry
Blanc, Guillermo A.
Blanton, Michael R.
Blomqvist, Michael
Bolton, Adam S.
Boquien, Mederic
Borissova, Jura
Bovy, Jo
Brandt, William Nielsen
Brinkmann, Jonathan
Brownstein, Joel R.
Bundy, Kevin
Burgasser, Adam
Byler, Nell
Diaz, Mariana Cano
Cappellari, Michele
Carrera, Ricardo
Cervantes Sodi, Bernardo
Chen, Yanping
Cherinka, Brian
Choi, Peter Doohyun
Chung, Haeun
Coffey, Damien
Comerford, Julia M.
Comparat, Johan
Covey, Kevin
Ilha, Gabriele da Silva
da Costa, Luiz
Dai, Yu Sophia
Damke, Guillermo
Darling, Jeremy
Davies, Roger
Dawson, Kyle
de Sainte Agathe, Victoria
Machado, Alice Deconto
Del Moro, Agnese
De Lee, Nathan
Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.
Sanchez, Helena Dominguez
Donor, John
Drory, Niv
des Bourboux, Helion du Mas
Duckworth, Chris
Dwelly, Tom
Ebelke, Garrett
Emsellem, Eric
Escoffier, Stephanie
Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.
Feuillet, Diane
Fischer, Johanna-Laina
Fleming, Scott W.
Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia
Freischlad, Gordon
Frinchaboy, Peter M.
Fu, Hai
Galbany, Lluis
Garcia-Dias, Rafael
Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
Garma Oehmichen, Luis Alberto
Geimba Maia, Marcio Antonio
Gil-Marin, Hector
Grabowski, Kathleen
Gu, Meng
Guo, Hong
Ha, Jaewon
Harrington, Emily
Hasselquist, Sten
Hayes, Christian R.
Hearty, Fred
Hernandez Toledo, Hector
Hicks, Harry
Hogg, David W.
Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
Holtzman, Jon A.
Hsieh, Bau-Ching
Hunt, Jason A. S.
Hwang, Ho Seong
Ibarra-Medel, Hector J.
Jimenez Angel, Camilo Eduardo
Johnson, Jennifer
Jones, Amy
Jonsson, Henrik
Kinemuchi, Karen
Kollmeier, Juna
Krawczyk, Coleman
Kreckel, Kathryn
Kruk, Sandor
Lacerna, Ivan
Lan, Ting-Wen
Lane, Richard R.
Law, David R.
Lee, Young-Bae
Li, Cheng
Lian, Jianhui
Lin, Lihwai
Lin, Yen-Ting
Lintott, Chris
Long, Dan
Longa-Pena, Penelope
Mackereth, J. Ted
de la Macorra, Axel
Majewski, Steven R.
Malanushenko, Olena
Manchado, Arturo
Maraston, Claudia
Mariappan, Vivek
Marinelli, Mariarosa
Marques-Chaves, Rui
Masseron, Thomas
Masters, Karen L.
McDermid, Richard M.
Medina Pena, Nicolas
Meneses-Goytia, Sofia
Merloni, Andrea
Merrifield, Michael
Meszaros, Szabolcs
Minniti, Dante
Minsley, Rebecca
Muna, Demitri
Myers, Adam D.
Nair, Preethi
do Nascimento, Janaina Correa
Newman, Jeffrey A.
Nitschelm, Christian
Olmstead, Matthew D.
Oravetz, Audrey
Oravetz, Daniel
Ortega Minakata, Rene A.
Pace, Zach
Padilla, Nelson
Palicio, Pedro A.
Pan, Kaike
Pan, Hsi-An
Parikh, Taniya
Parker, James, III
Peirani, Sebastien
Penny, Samantha
Percival, Will J.
Perez-Fournon, Ismael
Peterken, Thomas
Pinsonneault, Marc H.
Prakash, Abhishek
Raddick, M. Jordan
Raichoor, Anand
Riffel, Rogemar A.
Riffel, Rogerio
Rix, Hans-Walter
Robin, Annie C.
Roman-Lopes, Alexandre
Rose, Benjamin
Ross, Ashley J.
Rossi, Graziano
Rowlands, Kate
Rubin, Kate H. R.
Sanchez, Sebastian F.
Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R.
Sayres, Conor
Schaefer, Adam
Schiavon, Ricardo P.
Schimoia, Jaderson S.
Schlafly, Edward
Schlegel, David
Schneider, Donald P.
Schultheis, Mathias
Seo, Hee-Jong
Shamsi, Shoaib J.
Shao, Zhengyi
Shen, Shiyin
Shetty, Shravan
Simonian, Gregory
Smethurst, Rebecca J.
Sobeck, Jennifer
Souter, Barbara J.
Spindler, Ashley
Stark, David V.
Stassun, Keivan G.
Steinmetz, Matthias
Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
Stringfellow, Guy S.
Suarez, Genaro
Sun, Jing
Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
Talbot, Michael S.
Tayar, Jamie
Thakar, Aniruddha R.
Thomas, Daniel
Tissera, Patricia
Tojeiro, Rita
Troup, Nicholas W.
Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo
Valenzuela, Octavio
Vargas-Magana, Mariana
Antonio Vazquez-Mata, Jose
Wake, David
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
Weijmans, Anne-Marie
Westfall, Kyle B.
Wild, Vivienne
Wilson, John
Woods, Emily
Yan, Renbin
Yang, Meng
Zamora, Olga
Zasowski, Gail
Zhang, Kai
Zheng, Zheng
Zhu, Guangtun
Zinn, Joel C.
Zou, Hu
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aaf651
Abstract
Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (2014 July-2017 July). This is the third data release for SDSS-IV, and the 15th from SDSS (Data Release Fifteen; DR15). New data come from MaNGA-we release 4824 data cubes, as well as the first stellar spectra in the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), the first set of survey-supported analysis products (e.g., stellar and gas kinematics, emission-line and other maps) from the MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline, and a new data visualization and access tool we call Marvin. The next data release, DR16, will include new data from both APOGEE-2 and eBOSS; those surveys release no new data here, but we document updates and corrections to their data processing pipelines. The release is cumulative; it also includes the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since first light. In this paper, we describe the location and format of the data and tools and cite technical references describing how it was obtained and processed. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has also been updated, providing links to data downloads, tutorials, and examples of data use. Although SDSS-IV will continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V (2020-2025), we end this paper by describing plans to ensure the sustainability of the SDSS data archive for many years beyond the collection of data.


