The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Sky Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory…

By Bela Abolfathi, D. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar, C. Allende Prieto, Andrés Almeida, T. Ananna, Friedrich Anders, S. Anderson, B. Andrews, B. Anguiano and 337 more. 2017

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The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.

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Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions (2018, methodology): “All data used in this work come from the publicly available data release 14 (DR14) of the APOGEE survey (Abolfathi et al. 2018; Majewski et al. 2017), a component of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV; Gunn et al. 2006; Blanton et al. 2017).”
The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Science Case and Survey Design (2019, methodology): “Optical photometric surveys already available include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; Abolfathi et al. 2018), HyperSuprimeCam (HSC; ∗ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Aihara et al. 2018), the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) and related surveys (Dey et al. 2019), the Dark Energy Survey…”
The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library (2018, methodology): “Additionally in Abolfathi et al. (2018), detailed information was provided regarding the recently-published APOGEE-2 Targeting Paper from Zasowski et al. (2017) Users are encouraged to consult Zasowski et al. for specific details and insight regarding APOGEE-2 targeting.”
The biggest splash (2019, background): “Using Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) and the recalibrated Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) astrometric catalogues, Belokurov et al. (2018) and Myeong et al. (2018b) point out the local dominance of a relatively metal-rich, mildly prograde, and highly radially anisotropic stellar halo component.”
Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo (2019, methodology): “This was already hinted at in Mackereth et al. (2019), who used APOGEE data release 14 (DR14, Abolfathi et al. 2018) to demonstrate that the retrograde halo stars have lower [Mg/Fe] compared to the rest of the halo.”
The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. I. Homogeneous Fundamental Properties for 186,301 Kepler Stars (2020, background): “…flags (RGB versus the Red Clump, Vrard et al. 2016; Hon et al. 2018), and (4) spectroscopic metallicities from the Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog (Mathur et al. 2017), APOGEE DR14 (Majewski et al. 2017; Abolfathi et al. 2018), and LAMOST DR5 (Zhao et al. 2012; Ren et al. 2018), where available.”
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