The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library
Creators: name: Aguado, D. S.
name: Ahumada, Romina
name: Almeida, Andres
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Andrews, Brett H.
name: Anguiano, Borja
name: Ortiz, Erik Aquino
name: Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso
name: Argudo-Fernandez, Maria
name: Aubert, Marie
name: Avila-Reese, Vladimir
name: Badenes, Carles
name: Rembold, Sandro Barboza
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name: Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge
name: Bates, Dominic
name: Bautista, Julian
name: Beaton, Rachael L.
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Belfiore, Francesco
name: Bernardi, Mariangela
name: Bershady, Matthew
name: Beutler, Florian
name: Bird, Jonathan
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name: Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes
name: Chen, Yanping
name: Cherinka, Brian
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name: Dwelly, Tom
name: Ebelke, Garrett
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Escoffier, Stephanie
name: Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.
name: Feuillet, Diane
name: Fischer, Johanna-Laina
name: Fleming, Scott W.
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name: Oehmichen, Luis Alberto Garma
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name: Gil-Marin, Hector
name: Grabowski, Kathleen
name: Gu, Meng
name: Guo, Hong
name: Ha, Jaewon
name: Harrington, Emily
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name: Toledo, Hector Hernandez
name: Hicks, Harry
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Hsieh, Bau-Ching
name: Hunt, Jason A. S.
name: Hwang, Ho Seong
name: Ibarra-Medel, Hector J.
name: Angel, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez
name: Johnson, Jennifer
name: Jones, Amy
name: Jonsson, Henrik
name: Kinemuchi, Karen
name: Kollmeier, Juna
name: Krawczyk, Coleman
name: Kreckel, Kathryn
name: Kruk, Sandor
name: Lacerna, Ivan
name: Lan, Ting-Wen
name: Lane, Richard R.
name: Law, David R.
name: Lee, Young-Bae
name: Li, Cheng
name: Lian, Jianhui
name: Lin, Lihwai
name: Lin, Yen-Ting
name: Lintott, Chris
name: Long, Dan
name: Longa-Pena, Penelope
name: Mackereth, J. Ted
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name: Seo, Hee-Jong
name: Shamsi, Shoaib J.
name: Shao, Zhengyi
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name: Sobeck, Jennifer
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name: Spindler, Ashley
name: Stark, David V.
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Steinmetz, Matthias
name: Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
name: Stringfellow, Guy S.
name: Suarez, Genaro
name: Sun, Jing
name: Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr
name: Talbot, Michael S.
name: Tayar, Jamie
name: Thakar, Aniruddha R.
name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Tissera, Patricia
name: Tojeiro, Rita
name: Troup, Nicholas W.
name: Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo
name: Valenzuela, Octavio
name: na, Mariana Vargas-Maga
name: Mata, Jose Antonio Vazquez
name: Wake, David
name: Weaver, Benjamin Alan
name: Weijmans, Anne-Marie
name: Westfall, Kyle B.
name: Wild, Vivienne
name: Wilson, John
name: Woods, Emily
name: Yan, Renbin
name: Yang, Meng
name: Zamora, Olga
name: Zasowski, Gail
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Zhu, Guangtun
name: Zinn, Joel C.
name: Zou, Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 (July 2014-July 2017). This is the third data release for SDSS-IV, and the fifteenth from SDSS (Data Release Fifteen; DR15). New data come from MaNGA - we release 4824 datacubes, 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 (DAP), and a new data visualisation 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. While 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.
description: Paper to accompany DR15. 25 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJSS. The two papers on the MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline (DAP, Westfall et al. and Belfiore et al., see Section 4.1.2), and the paper on Marvin (Cherinka et al., see Section 4.2) have been submitted for collaboration review and will be posted to arXiv in due course. v2 fixes some broken URLs in the PDF