The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
Creators: name: SDSS Collaboration
name: Albareti, Franco D.
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Almeida, Andres
name: Anders, Friedrich
name: Anderson, Scott
name: Andrews, Brett H.
name: Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso
name: Argudo-Fernandez, Maria
name: Armengaud, Eric
name: Aubourg, Eric
name: Avila-Reese, Vladimir
name: Badenes, Carles
name: Bailey, Stephen
name: Barbuy, Beatriz
name: Barger, Kat
name: Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge
name: Bartosz, Curtis
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Bates, Dominic
name: Battaglia, Giuseppina
name: Baumgarten, Falk
name: Baur, Julien
name: Bautista, Julian
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Belfiore, Francesco
name: Bershady, Matthew
name: de Lis, Sara Bertran
name: Bird, Jonathan C.
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Blanc, Guillermo A.
name: Blanton, Michael
name: Blomqvist, Michael
name: Bolton, Adam S.
name: Borissova, J.
name: Bovy, Jo
name: Brandt, William Nielsen
name: Brinkmann, Jonathan
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Bundy, Kevin
name: Burtin, Etienne
name: Busca, Nicolas G.
name: Chavez, Hugo Orlando Camacho
name: Diaz, M. Cano
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Carrera, Ricardo
name: Chen, Yanping
name: Cherinka, Brian
name: Cheung, Edmond
name: Chiappini, Cristina
name: Chojnowski, Drew
name: Chuang, Chia-Hsun
name: Chung, Haeun
name: Cirolini, Rafael Fernando
name: Clerc, Nicolas
name: Cohen, Roger E.
name: Comerford, Julia M.
name: Comparat, Johan
name: Cousinou, Marie-Claude
name: Covey, Kevin
name: Crane, Jeffrey D.
name: Croft, Rupert
name: Cunha, Katia
name: da Costa, Luiz
name: Ilha, Gabriele da Silva
name: Darling, Jeremy
name: Davidson, James W.
name: Dawson, Kyle
name: De Lee, Nathan
name: de la Macorra, Axel
name: de la Torre, Sylvain
name: Machado, Alice Deconto
name: Delubac, Timothee
name: Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.
name: Donor, John
name: Downes, Juan Jose
name: Drory, Niv
name: Bourboux, Helion du Mas des
name: Du, Cheng
name: Dwelly, Tom
name: Ebelke, Garrett
name: Eigenbrot, Arthur
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Elsworth, Yvonne P.
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Eracleous, Michael
name: Escoffier, Stephanie
name: Evans, Michael L.
name: Falcon-Barroso, Jesus
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Favole, Ginevra
name: Fernandez-Alvar, Emma
name: Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.
name: Feuillet, Diane
name: Fleming, Scott W.
name: Font-Ribera, Andreu
name: Freischlad, Gordon
name: Frinchaboy, Peter
name: Fu, Hai
name: Gao, Yang
name: Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
name: Perez, Ana E. Garcia
name: Garcia, Rafael A.
name: Garcia-Dias, R.
name: Gaulme, Patrick
name: Ge, Junqiang
name: Geisler, Douglas
name: Marin, Hector Gil
name: Gillespie, Bruce
name: Girardi, Leo
name: Goddard, Daniel
name: Chew, Yilen Gomez Maqueo
name: Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta
name: Grabowski, Kathleen
name: Green, Paul
name: Grier, Catherine J.
name: Grier, Thomas
name: Guo, Hong
name: Guy, Julien
name: Hagen, Alex
name: Hall, Matt
name: Harding, Paul
name: Harley, R. E.
name: Hasselquist, Sten
name: Hawley, Suzanne
name: Hayes, Christian R.
name: Hearty, Fred
name: Hekker, Saskia
name: Toledo, Hector Hernandez
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Holzer, Parker H.
name: Hu, Jian
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Hutchinson, Timothy Alan
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
name: Ibarra-Medel, Hector J.
name: Ivans, Inese I.
name: Ivory, KeShawn
name: Jaehnig, Kurt
name: Jensen, Trey W.
name: Johnson, Jennifer A.
name: Jones, Amy
name: Jullo, Eric
name: Kallinger, T.
name: Kinemuchi, Karen
name: Kirkby, David
name: Klaene, Mark
name: Kneib, Jean-Paul
name: Kollmeier, Juna A.
name: Lacerna, Ivan
name: Lane, Richard R.
name: Lang, Dustin
name: Laurent, Pierre
name: Law, David R.
name: Goff, Jean-Marc Le
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: Li, Cheng
name: Li, Ran
name: Li, Chen
name: Li, Niu
name: Liang, Fu-Heng
name: Liang, Yu
name: Lima, Marcos
name: Lin, Lihwai
name: Lin, Lin
name: Lin, Yen-Ting
name: Long, Dan
name: Lucatello, Sara
name: MacDonald, Nicholas
name: MacLeod, Chelsea L.
name: Mackereth, J. Ted
name: Mahadevan, Suvrath
name: Maia, Marcio Antonio-Geimba
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Malanushenko, Olena
name: Mallmann, Nicolas Dullius
name: Manchado, Arturo
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: Marques-Chaves, Rui
name: Valpuesta, Inma Martinez
name: Masters, Karen L.
name: Mathur, Savita
name: McGreer, Ian D.
name: Merloni, Andrea
name: Merrifield, Michael R.
name: Meszaros, Szabolcs
name: Meza, Andres
name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Minchev, Ivan
name: Molaverdikhani, Karan
name: Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
name: Mosser, Benoit
name: Muna, Demitri
name: Myers, Adam
name: Nair, Preethi
name: Nandra, Kirpal
name: Ness, Melissa
name: Newman, Jeffrey A.
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Nidever, David L.
name: Nitschelm, Christian
name: O'Connell, Julia
name: Oravetz, Audrey
name: Padilla, Nelson
name: Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Parejko, John
name: Paris, Isabelle
name: Peacock, John A.
name: Peirani, Sebastien
name: Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos
name: Penny, Samantha
name: Percival, Will J.
name: Percival, Jeffrey W.
name: Perez-Fournon, Ismael
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name: Pieri, Matthew
name: Pinsonneault, Marc H.
name: Pisani, Alice
name: Prada, Francisco
name: Prakash, Abhishek
name: Price-Jones, Natalie
name: Raddick, M. Jordan
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name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Robin, Annie C.
name: Rockosi, Constance M.
name: Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio
name: Rodrigues, Thaise S.
name: Roe, Natalie
name: Lopes, A. Roman
name: Roman-Zuniga, Carlos
name: Ross, Ashley J.
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Ruan, John
name: Ruggeri, Rossana
name: Runnoe, Jessie C.
name: Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
name: Salvato, Mara
name: Sanchez, Ariel G.
name: Sanchez, Sebastian F.
name: Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R.
name: Santiago, Basilio Xavier
name: Schiavon, Ricardo
name: Schimoia, Jaderson S.
name: Schlafly, Eddie
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Schoenrich, Ralph
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name: Seo, Hee-Jong
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name: Sesar, Branimir
name: Shao, Zhengyi
name: Shetrone, Matthew
name: Shull, Michael
name: Aguirre, Victor Silva
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name: Smith, Michael
name: Smith, Verne V.
name: Sobeck, Jennifer
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name: Souto, Diogo
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name: Steinmetz, Matthias
name: Stello, Dennis
name: Bergmann, Thaisa Storchi
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Streblyanska, Alina
name: Stringfellow, Guy S.
name: Suarez, Genaro
name: Sun, Jing
name: Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
name: Tang, Baitian
name: Tao, Charling
name: Tayar, Jamie
name: Tembe, Mita
name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Tinker, Jeremy
name: Tojeiro, Rita
name: Tremonti, Christy
name: Troup, Nicholas
name: Trump, Jonathan R.
name: Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo
name: Valenzuela, O.
name: Bosch, Remco van den
name: Vargas-Magana, Mariana
name: Vazquez, Jose Alberto
name: Villanova, Sandro
name: Vivek, M.
name: Vogt, Nicole
name: Wake, David
name: Walterbos, Rene
name: Wang, Yuting
name: Wang, Enci
name: Weaver, Benjamin Alan
name: Weijmans, Anne-Marie
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Whelan, David G.
name: Wilcots, Eric
name: Wild, Vivienne
name: Williams, Rob A.
name: Wilson, John
name: Wood-Vasey, W. M.
name: Wylezalek, Dominika
name: Xiao, Ting
name: Yan, Renbin
name: Yang, Meng
name: Ybarra, Jason E.
name: Yeche, Christophe
name: Yuan, Fang-Ting
name: Zakamska, Nadia
name: Zamora, Olga
name: Zasowski, Gail
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Zhao, Cheng
name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Zhou, Zhi-Min
name: Zhu, Guangtun
name: Zinn, Joel C.
name: Zou, Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: TDSS and SPIDERS. This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13), which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSS data releases, is inclusive of previously released data. DR13 makes publicly available 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA, the first data released from this survey. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing SEQUELS. In addition to targeting galaxies and quasars, SEQUELS also targeted variability-selected objects from TDSS and X-ray selected objects from SPIDERS. DR13 includes new reductions of the SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification. DR13 releases new reductions of the APOGEE-1 data from SDSS-III, with abundances of elements not previously included and improved stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. For the SDSS imaging data, DR13 provides new, more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Several value-added catalogs are being released in tandem with DR13, in particular target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS, and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE. This paper describes the location and format of the data now publicly available, as well as providing references to the important technical papers that describe the targeting, observing, and data reduction. The SDSS website, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials and examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6-year operations of SDSS-IV.
description: Full information on DR13 available at http://www.sdss.org. Comments welcome to spokesperson@sdss.org. To be published in ApJS