SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS galaxy survey—survey design, execution, and initial data quality

The MaNGA Survey (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. It is obtaining integral field spectroscopy for 10,000 nearby galaxies at a spectral resolution of R ∼ 2000 from 3622 to 10354 Å. The design of the survey is drive...

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Main Authors: Yan, Renbin, Bundy, Kevin, Law, David R., Bershady, Matthew A., Andrews, Brett, Cherinka, Brian, Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Drory, Niv, MacDonald, Nicholas, Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David A., Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Westfall, Kyle B., Zhang, Kai, Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso, Belfiore, Francesco, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanc, Guillermo A., Blanton, Michael R., Brownstein, Joel, Cappellari, Michele, D’Souza, Richard, Emsellem, Eric, Fu, Hai, Gaulme, Patrick, Graham, Mark T., Goddard, Daniel, Gunn, James E., Harding, Paul, Jones, Amy, Kinemuchi, Karen, Li, Cheng, Li, Hongyu, Maiolino, Roberto, Mao, Shude, Maraston, Claudia, Masters, Karen, Merrifield, Michael R., Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Sanchez, Sebastian F., Schlegel, David, Simmons, Audrey, Thanjavur, Karun, Tinker, Jeremy, Tremonti, Christy, van den Bosch, Remco, Zheng, Zheng
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Published: IOP Publishing 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39706/