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

Yan, Renbin; Bundy, Kevin; Law, David R.; Bershady, Matthew A.; Andrews, Brett; Cherinka, Brian; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Drory, Niv; MacDonald, Nicholas; S�nchez-Gallego, Jos� R.; Thomas, Daniel; Wake, David A.; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Westfall, Kyle B.; Zhang, Kai; Arag�n-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

Authors

Renbin Yan

Kevin Bundy

David R. Law

Matthew A. Bershady

Brett Andrews

Brian Cherinka

Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic

Niv Drory

Nicholas MacDonald

Jos� R. S�nchez-Gallego

Daniel Thomas

David A. Wake

Anne-Marie Weijmans

Kyle B. Westfall

Kai Zhang

Francesco Belfiore

Dmitry Bizyaev

Guillermo A. Blanc

Michael R. Blanton

Joel Brownstein

Michele Cappellari

Richard D�Souza

Eric Emsellem

Hai Fu

Patrick Gaulme

Mark T. Graham

Daniel Goddard

James E. Gunn

Paul Harding

Amy Jones

Karen Kinemuchi

Cheng Li

Hongyu Li

Roberto Maiolino

Shude Mao

Claudia Maraston

Karen Masters

Michael R. Merrifield

Daniel Oravetz

Kaike Pan

John K. Parejko

Sebastian F. Sanchez

David Schlegel

Audrey Simmons

Karun Thanjavur

Jeremy Tinker

Christy Tremonti

Remco van den Bosch

Zheng Zheng



Abstract

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 driven by a set of science requirements on the precision of estimates of the following properties: star formation rate surface density, gas metallicity, stellar population age, metallicity, and abundance ratio, and their gradients; stellar and gas kinematics; and enclosed gravitational mass as a function of radius. We describe how these science requirements set the depth of the observations and dictate sample selection. The majority of targeted galaxies are selected to ensure uniform spatial coverage in units of effective radius (Re) while maximizing spatial resolution. About two-thirds of the sample is covered out to 1.5Re (Primary sample), and one-third of the sample is covered to 2.5Re (Secondary sample). We describe the survey execution with details that would be useful in the design of similar future surveys. We also present statistics on the achieved data quality, specifically the point-spread function, sampling uniformity, spectral resolution, sky subtraction, and flux calibration. For our Primary sample, the median r-band signal-to-noise ratio is ∼70 per 1.4 Å pixel for spectra stacked between 1Re and 1.5Re. Measurements of various galaxy properties from the first-year data show that we are meeting or exceeding the defined requirements for the majority of our science goals.

Citation

Yan, R., Bundy, K., Law, D. R., Bershady, M. A., Andrews, B., Cherinka, B., …Zheng, Z. (2016). SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS galaxy survey—survey design, execution, and initial data quality. Astronomical Journal, 152(6), Article 197. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/197

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 24, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 29, 2016
Publication Date Nov 29, 2016
Deposit Date Jan 11, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The Astronomical Journal
Print ISSN 0004-6256
Electronic ISSN 1538-3881
Publisher American Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 152
Issue 6
Article Number 197
DOI https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/197
Keywords galaxies: evolution; galaxies: general; surveys; techniques: imaging spectroscopy
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/826703
Publisher URL http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/197/meta;jsessionid=5A175382655132ED09602EF15198CCE6.c4.iopscience.cld.iop.org

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