Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): end of survey report and data release 2
Creators: name: Liske, J.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Tuffs, R. J.
name: Alpaslan, M.
name: Andrae, E.
name: Brough, S.
name: Cluver, M. E.
name: Grootes, M. W.
name: Gunawardhana, M. L. P.
name: Kelvin, L. S.
name: Loveday, J.
name: Robotham, A. S. G.
name: Taylor, E. N.
name: Bamford, S. P.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Brown, M. J. I.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Meyer, M. J.
name: Norberg, P.
name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Agius, N. K.
name: Andrews, S. K.
name: Bauer, A. E.
name: Ching, J. H. Y.
name: Colless, M.
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Davies, L. J. M.
name: De Propris, R.
name: Dunne, L.
name: Eardley, E. M.
name: Ellis, S.
name: Foster, C.
name: Frenk, C. S.
name: Häußler, B.
name: Holwerda, B. W.
name: Howlett, C.
name: Ibarra, H.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
name: Jones, D. H.
name: Kafle, P. R.
name: Lacey, C. G.
name: Lange, R.
name: Lara-López, M. A.
name: López-Sánchez, Á. R.
name: Maddox, S.
name: Madore, B. F.
name: McNaught-Roberts, T.
name: Moffett, A. J.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Palamara, D.
name: Penny, S. J.
name: Phillipps, S.
name: Pimbblet, K. A.
name: Popescu, C. C.
name: Prescott, M.
name: Proctor, R.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: Sansom, A. E.
name: Seibert, M.
name: Sharp, R.
name: Sutherland, W.
name: Vázquez-Mata, J. A.
name: van Kampen, E.
name: Wilkins, S. M.
name: Williams, R.
name: Wright, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low-redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ~286 deg^2 (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r &lt; 19.8 mag, we have collected spectra and reliable redshifts for 238,000 objects using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. In addition, we have assembled imaging data from a number of independent surveys in order to generate photometry spanning the wavelength range 1 nm - 1 m. Here we report on the recently completed spectroscopic survey and present a series of diagnostics to assess its final state and the quality of the redshift data. We also describe a number of survey aspects and procedures, or updates thereof, including changes to the input catalogue, redshifting and re-redshifting, and the derivation of ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry. Finally, we present the second public release of GAMA data. In this release we provide input catalogue and targeting information, spectra, redshifts, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry, single-component Sérsic fits, stellar masses, H$α$-derived star formation rates, environment information, and group properties for all galaxies with r &lt; 19.0 mag in two of our survey regions, and for all galaxies with r &lt; 19.4 mag in a third region (72,225 objects in total). The database serving these data is available at http://www.gama-survey.org/.
description: Accepted for publication in MMRAS, 40 pages, 33 figures