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most citedThe Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

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53 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): The Integrated Light and Internal Rotation of Omega Centauri

Maximilian Häberle, Dmitry Bizyaev, Alina Boecker +34

The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) is a wide-field integral field spectroscopic survey of the Southern Milky Way plane, the Magellanic Clouds, and nearby Local Group galaxies. We…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2026

There is no single density: star-forming regions and galaxies hold more dense ionized gas than long assumed

J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Christophe Morisset, William J. Henney +29

Ionized gas fills star-forming regions and galaxies, and nearly everything we know about its temperature, pressure, mass, and composition is inferred from its emission lines [1-3].…

astro-ph.GA2026

SDSS-V: Revealing a weak accretion state in X-ray selected red quasars

Paloma Guetzoyan, James Aird, Amy L. Rankine +17

Red quasars (rQSOs) have been recognized as a short-lived, early stage in the evolutionary cycle of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), with fundamental differences in their intrinsic pr…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Robust AGN and host-galaxy decomposition in optical spectral fitting

C. Aydar, A. Merloni, G. Zeltyn +24

Unraveling the growth of supermassive black holes and their connection to host galaxies requires disentangling the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission from that of the stellar po…

astro-ph.GA2025

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Light Echoes of the Coronal Line Region in a Luminous Quasar

Theodore B. Smith, Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump +19

We present a reverberation mapping analysis of the coronal line [Ne V]3427 emitting region of the quasar COS168 (SDSS J095910.30+020732.2). [Ne V]3427 is known as one of the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Revealing the Structure of the Rosette Nebula

Mónica A. Villa-Durango, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga +19

The Rosette Nebula is a well-known H II region shaped by the interaction of gas with the OB stars of the NGC 2244 stellar association. Located within the remnant of a giant molecul…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Optical Emission-Line Properties of eROSITA-selected SDSS-V Galaxies

Nadiia G. Pulatova, Evgenii Rubtsov, Igor V. Chilingarian +21

We present and discuss optical emission line properties obtained from the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra for an X-ray selected sample of 3684 galaxies (0.002 <…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Physical properties of HII regions at sub-kpc scales using integral field spectroscopy on IC 342

J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, S. F. Sanchez, K. Kreckel +7

In this study we use Integral Field Spectroscopic (IFS) observations for one of the closest galaxy to us, the grand design spiral IC 342, to derive physical properties of HII regio…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Lockman-SpReSO project. Spectroscopic analysis of Type 1 AGN

Castalia Alenka Negrete, Hector J. Ibarra-Medel, Erika Benitez +20

We present the first optical-UV spectral systematic analysis of 30 Type 1 AGN selected in the FIR and X-ray in the Lockman-SpReSO Survey. The sample of faint objects (m_B = 19.6-21…

astro-ph.IM2025

Procedures for Constraining Robotic Fiber Positioning for Highly Multiplexed Spectroscopic Surveys: The Case of FPS for SDSS-V

Ilija Medan, Tom Dwelly, Kevin R. Covey +12

One crucial aspect of planning any large scale astronomical survey is constructing an observing strategy that maximizes reduced data quality. This is especially important for surve…

astro-ph.GA2025

The MaNGA Dwarf Galaxy Sample (MaNDala): stellar profiles and gradients characterization

M. Cano-DÍaz, A. Rodríguez-Puebla, A. C. Robleto-Orús +8

We derived radial profiles and inner/outer gradients of various stellar population (SP) properties for 124 bright dwarf galaxies, , from th…

astro-ph.GA2024

An iterative method to deblend AGN-Host contributions for Integral Field spectroscopic observations

Héctor Ibarra-Medel, Castalia Alenka Negrete, Ivan Lacerna +3

We present a new iterative deblending method to separate the host galaxy (HG) and their Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission with the use of Integral Field spectroscopic (IFS) dat…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: A Kinematically Variable Broad-Line Region and Consequences for Masses of Luminous Quasars

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Keith Horne +27

We present a velocity-resolved reverberation mapping analysis of the hypervariable quasar RM160 (SDSS J141041.25+531849.0) at z = 0.359 with 153 spectroscopic epochs of data repres…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

The Lockman--SpReSO project. Main properties of infrared selected star-forming galaxies

Mauro González-Otero, Jordi Cepa, Carmen P. Padilla-Torres +18

Methods.We applied distinct selection criteria to attain an SFG sample with minimal AGN contamination. Multiple approaches were used to estimate the intrinsic extinction, SFR and g…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Lockman-SpReSO project. Galactic flows in a sample of far-infrared galaxies

Mauro González-Otero, Carmen P. Padilla-Torres, J. Ignacio González-Serrano +20

Methods. We performed measurements of the \MgII, \MgI, \FeIIa, \FeIIb, and \FeIIc\ spectral lines present in the spectra of the selected sample to determine the EW and velocity of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Multi-Epoch Optical Spectroscopy Variability of the Changing-Look AGN Mrk 883

Erika Benítez, Castalia Alenka Negrete, Héctor Ibarra-Medel +2

In this work, we present multi-epoch optical spectra of the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy Mrk 883. Data were obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and the \emph{MEGARA} Integral Field Un…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Incidence of Major Mergers in type I and II AGN Host Galaxies in the DR15 sample

Héctor Hernández-Toledo, Edgar Cortes-Suárez, Jose Antonio Vázquez-Mata +4

We present a study on the incidence of major mergers and their impact on the triggering of nuclear activity in 47 type I and 236 type II optically-selected AGN from the MaNGA DR15…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Yue Shen, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne +44

We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping program. This…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

3D spectroscopy with GTC-MEGARA of the triple AGN candidate in SDSS J102700.40+174900.8

Erika Benítez, Héctor Ibarra-Medel, Castalia Alenka Negrete +4

Triple AGN systems are expected to be the result of the hierarchical model of galaxy formation. Since there are very few of them confirmed as such, we present the results of a new…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

The evolution of radial gradients of MaNGA quiescent elliptical galaxies: inside-out quenching or outer mass growth?

V. Avila-Reese, H. Ibarra-Medel, I. Lacerna +5

Using spatially-resolved fossil record analysis on a large sample of 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies (classical ellipticals, CLEs) from the MaNGA/SDSS-IV DR15 survey, we reconst…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 282 cited

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…