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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.CO2020★ 1.4k cited

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

eBOSS Collaboration, Shadab Alam, Marie Aubert +97

We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 323 cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Spectrographs

J. C. Wilson, F. R. Hearty, M. F. Skrutskie +86

We describe the design and performance of the near-infrared (1.51--1.70 micron), fiber-fed, multi-object (300 fibers), high resolution (R = lambda/delta lambda ~ 22,500) spectrogra…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 114 cited

SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Gail Zasowski, Hans-Walter Rix +47

SDSS-V will be an all-sky, multi-epoch spectroscopic survey of over six million objects. It is designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, trace the emergence of the chemical…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1.8k cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

Steven R. Majewski, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Peter M. Frinchaboy +75

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneo…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 849 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1 cited

Observing Strategy for the SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey

David R. Law, Renbin Yan, Matthew A. Bershady +11

MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of 10,000 nearby galaxies that is one of three core programs in the fourth-gen…