Paper: 2015ApJ...798....7B (acknowledgments)
We are grateful for careful comments on the manuscript by Don Schneider and input from the SAMI, CALIFA, and ATLAS 3D teams. We also thank Adam Bolton, Stephane Courteau, Natascha Forster-Schreiber, Bruce Gillespie, Gary Hill, Arlette Pécontal, Rob Sharp, Ray Sharples, and Dennis Zaritsky for valuable feedback on the MaNGA instrumentation and survey design. Funding for SDSS-III and SDSS-IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Participating Institutions. Additional funding for SDSS-III comes from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Further information about both projects is available at www.sdss.org . SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions in both collaborations. In SDSS-III these include 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. The Participating Institutions in SDSS-IV are Carnegie Mellon University, Colorado University, Boulder, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, The Ohio State University, Penn State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, and Yale University. This work was supported in part by a World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan. J.H.K. acknowledges financial support to the DAGAL network from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement no. PITN-GA-2011-289313. This work has also been supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program “The Emergence of Cosmological Structures” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Grant No. XDB09000000 (S.M., C.L.) and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant no. 11333003 (S.M.). M.C. acknowledges support from a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. C.C. acknowledges support from the Sloan and Packard Foundations. A.M.D. acknowledges support from The Grainger Foundation.