University of Kentucky UKnowledge Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications Physics and Astronomy 12-10-2014 Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Kevin Bundy University of Tokyo, Japan Matthew A. Bershady University of Wisconsin - Madison David R. Law University of Toronto, Canada Renbin Yan University of Kentucky, [email protected] Niv Drory University of Texas - Austin See next page for additional authors Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub Part of the Astrophysics and Astronomy Commons, and the Physics Commons Repository Citation Bundy, Kevin; Bershady, Matthew A.; Law, David R.; Yan, Renbin; Drory, Niv; MacDonald, Nicholas; Wake, David A.; Cherinka, Brian; Sánchez-Gallego, José R.; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Thomas, Daniel; Tremonti, Christy; Masters, Karen; Coccato, Lodovico; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Badenes, Carles; Falcón-Barroso, Jésus; Belfiore, Francesco; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Blanton, Michael R.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Byler, Nell; Cappellari, Michele; Conroy, Charlie; Dutton, Aaron A.; Emsellem, Eric; and Zhang, Kai, "Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory" (2014). 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Dutton, Eric Emsellem, and Kai Zhang Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Notes/Citation Information Published in The Astrophysical Journal, v. 798, no. 1, 7, p. 1-24. © 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The opc yright holder has granted the permission for posting the article here. Due to the large number of authors, only the first 30 and the authors affiliated with the University of Kentucky are listed in the author section above. For the complete list of authors, please download this article. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/798/1/7 This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/332 The Astrophysical Journal, 798:7 (24pp), 2015 January 1 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/798/1/7 C 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY Kevin Bundy1, Matthew A. Bershady2, David R. Law3, Renbin Yan4, Niv Drory5, Nicholas MacDonald6, David A. Wake2, Brian Cherinka3,JoseR.S´ anchez-Gallego´ 4, Anne-Marie Weijmans7, Daniel Thomas8, Christy Tremonti2, Karen Masters8,9, Lodovico Coccato8,10, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic2, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca´ 11, Vladimir Avila-Reese12, Carles Badenes13,Jesus´ Falcon-Barroso´ 14, Francesco Belfiore15,16, Dmitry Bizyaev17, Guillermo A. Blanc18, Joss Bland-Hawthorn19, Michael R. Blanton20, Joel R. Brownstein21, Nell Byler6, Michele Cappellari22, Charlie Conroy23, Aaron A. Dutton24, Eric Emsellem10,25,26, James Etherington8, Peter M. Frinchaboy27, Hai Fu28, James E. Gunn29, Paul Harding30, Evelyn J. Johnston11, Guinevere Kauffmann31, Karen Kinemuchi17, Mark A. Klaene17, Johan H. Knapen14,32, Alexie Leauthaud1, Cheng Li33, Lihwai Lin34, Roberto Maiolino15, Viktor Malanushenko17, Elena Malanushenko17, Shude Mao35,36, Claudia Maraston8, Richard M. McDermid37,38, Michael R. Merrifield11, Robert C. Nichol8, Daniel Oravetz17, Kaike Pan17, John K. Parejko39, Sebastian F. Sanchez12, David Schlegel40, Audrey Simmons17, Oliver Steele8, Matthias Steinmetz41, Karun Thanjavur42, Benjamin A. Thompson27, Jeremy L. Tinker20, Remco C. E. van den Bosch24, Kyle B. Westfall43, David Wilkinson8, Shelley Wright3,44, Ting Xiao33, and Kai Zhang4 1 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583, Japan 2 Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA 3 Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, 505 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, USA 5 McDonald Observatory, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Austin, TX 78712-0259, USA 6 Department of Astronomy, Box 351580, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 7 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK 8 Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK 9 SEPNet, South East Physics Network (www.sepnet.ac.uk), Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK 10 European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany 11 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK 12 Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, A.P. 70-264, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico 13 Department of Physics and Astronomy and Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), University of Pittsburgh, 3941 OHara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 14 Instituto de Astrof´ısica de Canarias, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 15 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK 16 Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK 17 Apache Point Observatory and New Mexico State, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA 18 Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA, USA 19 Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 20 Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA 21 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, 115 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA 22 Sub-Department of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK 23 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 24 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Konigstuhl¨ 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany 25 Universite´ Lyon 1, Observatoire de Lyon, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, 9 avenue Charles Andre,´ F-69561 Saint Genis Laval Cedex, France 26 Ecole Normale Superieure´ de Lyon, 9 avenue Charles Andre,´ F-69230 Saint-Genis Laval, France 27 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 298840, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA 28 Department of Physics and Astronomy, 203 Van Allen Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1479, USA 29 Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 30 Department of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA 31 MaxPlanckInstitut fur¨ Astrophysik, KarlSchwarzschildStr. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany 32 Departamento de Astrof´ısica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38206 La Laguna, Spain 33 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Nandan Road 80, Shanghai 200030, China 34 Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 106, Taiwan 35 National Astronomical Observatories of China, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100012, China 36 Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 37 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia 38 Australian Gemini Office, Australian Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 915, Sydney, NSW 1670, Australia 39 Department of Physics, Yale University, 260 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, USA 40 Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720-8160, USA 41 Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany 42 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P5C2, Canada 43 Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Landleven 12, 9747-AD Groningen, The Netherlands 44 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada Received 2014 August 5; accepted 2014 October 21; published 2014 December 10 ABSTRACT We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey 1 The Astrophysical Journal, 798:7 (24pp), 2015 January 1 Bundy et al. (SDSS-IV) that