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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star Indi

William J. Chaplin, Aldo M. Serenelli, Andrea Miglio +81

Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies. While these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematic…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 40 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Faint quenched galaxies I- Sample selection and evidence for environmental quenching

Samantha J. Penny, Karen L. Masters, Anne-Marie Weijmans +21

Using kinematic maps from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we reveal that the majority of low-mass quenched g…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 360 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey --- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality

Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, David R. Law +47

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…