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most citedThe 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

681 citations · 2.7k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.GA2024

CAVITY: Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY. I. First public data release

Rubén García-Benito, Andoni Jiménez, Laura Sánchez-Menguiano +40

The Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY (CAVITY) is a legacy project aimed at characterising the population of galaxies inhabiting voids, which are the most under-dense…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 29 cited

Stellar mass-metallicity relation throughout the large-scale structure of the Universe: CAVITY mother sample

Jesús Domínguez-Gómez, Isabel Pérez, Tomás Ruiz-Lara +21

Void galaxies are essential for understanding the physical processes that drive galaxy evolution because they are less affected by external factors than galaxies in denser environm…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 42 cited

Galaxies in voids assemble their stars slowly

J. Domínguez-Gómez, I. Pérez, T. Ruiz-Lara +20

Galaxies in the Universe are distributed in a web-like structure characterised by different large-scale environments: dense clusters, elongated filaments, sheetlike walls, and unde…

astro-ph.GA2022

SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass

Grecco A. Oyarzun, Kevin Bundy, Kyle B. Westfall +23

We analyze spatially resolved and co-added SDSS-IV MaNGA spectra with signal-to-noise ~100 from 2200 passive central galaxies (z~0.05) to understand how central galaxy assembly dep…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

Evidence for the Accretion of Gas in Star-Forming Galaxies: High N/O Abundances in Regions of Anomalously-Low Metallicity

Yuanze Luo, Timothy Heckman, Hsiang-Chih Hwang +11

While all models for the evolution of galaxies require the accretion of gas to sustain their growth via on-going star formation, it has proven difficult to directly detect this inf…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 25 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence for enriched accretion onto satellite galaxies in dense environments

Adam L. Schaefer, Christy Tremonti, Zachary Pace +9

We investigate the environmental dependence of the local gas-phase metallicity in a sample of star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Satellite galaxies with stellar masses in…

astro-ph.GA2019

Exploring the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies in Different Environments from MaNGA Spectra

Maria Argudo-Fernández, Médéric Boquien, Shiyin Shen +4

The star formation history (SFH) of galaxies allow us to investigate when galaxies formed their stars and assembled their mass. We can constrain the SFH with high level of precisio…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 73 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Inside-out vs. outside-in quenching in different local environments

Lihwai Lin, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Hsi-An Pan +13

The large Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys have allowed the classification of ionizing sources of emission lines on sub-kpc scales. In this work, we define two non-paramet…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

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

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 201 cited

Marvin: A Toolkit for Streamlined Access and Visualization of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Data Set

Brian Cherinka, Brett H. Andrews, José Sánchez-Gallego +11

The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, one of three core programs of the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV), is producing a massi…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 128 cited

SDSS-IV MaStar -- A Large and Comprehensive Empirical Stellar Spectral Library: First Release

Renbin Yan, Yanping Chen, Daniel Lazarz +45

We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range of 3,622-10,354A…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 10 cited

Unveiling the environment and faint features of the isolated galaxy CIG 96 with deep optical and HI observations

P. Ramirez-Moreta, L. Verdes-Montenegro, J. Blasco-Herrera +21

Asymmetries in HI in galaxies are often caused by the interaction with close companions, making isolated galaxies an ideal framework to study secular evolution. The AMIGA project h…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 19 cited

Molecular gas and Star Formation Properties in Early Stage Mergers: SMA CO(2-1) Observations of the LIRGs NGC 3110 and NGC 232

D. Espada, S. Martin, S. Verley +13

Mergers of galaxies are an important mode for galaxy evolution because they serve as an efficient trigger of powerful starbursts. However, observational studies of the molecular ga…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 75 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Formation Sequence of S0 Galaxies

Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Michael Merrifield +5

Gas stripping of spiral galaxies or mergers are thought to be the formation mechanisms of lenticular galaxies. In order to determine the conditions in which each scenario dominates…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 22 cited

Spatially resolved star formation and dust attenuation in Mrk848: Comparison of the integral field spectra and the UV-to-IR SED

F. -T. Yuan, M. Argudo-Fernandez, S. Shen +5

We investigate the star formation history and the dust attenuation in the galaxy merger Mrk848. Thanks to the multiwavelength photometry from the ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 33 cited

SDSS IV MaNGA: Dependence of Global and Spatially-resolved SFR-M* Relations on Galaxy Properties

Hsi-An Pan, Lihwai Lin, Bau-Ching Hsieh +14

Galaxy integrated Hα star formation rate-stellar mass relation, or SFR(global)-M*(global) relation, is crucial for understanding star formation history and evolution of galaxies. H…

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.IM2017★ 10 cited

LSSGalPy: Interactive Visualization of the Large-scale Environment Around Galaxies

M. Argudo-Fernández, S. Duarte Puertas, J. E. Ruiz +3

New tools are needed to handle the growth of data in astrophysics delivered by recent and upcoming surveys. We aim to build open-source, light, flexible, and interactive software d…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 195 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation histories in galaxies as a function of galaxy mass and type

Daniel Goddard, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +25

We study the internal gradients of stellar population properties within for a representative sample of 721 galaxies with stellar masses ranging between $10^{9}\;M_…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 91 cited

SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar population gradients as a function of galaxy environment

Daniel Goddard, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +23

We study the internal radial gradients of stellar population properties within and analyse the impact of galaxy environment. We use a representative sample of 721…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 53 cited

The growth of the central region by acquisition of counter-rotating gas in star-forming galaxies

Yan-Mei Chen, Yong Shi, Christy A. Tremonti +29

Galaxies grow through both internal and external processes. In about 10% of nearby red galaxies with little star formation, gas and stars are counter-rotating, demonstrating the im…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 2 cited

An Isolated Compact Galaxy Triplet

Shuai Feng, Zheng-Yi Shao, Shi-Yin Shen +5

We report the discovery of an isolated compact galaxy triplet SDSS J084843.45+164417.3, which is first detected by the LAMOST spectral survey and then confirmed by the spectroscopi…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 33 cited

A sample of galaxy pairs identified from the LAMOST spectral survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Shiyin Shen, M. Argudo-Fernández, Li Chen +23

A small fraction() of SDSS main sample galaxies(MGs) have not been targeted with spectroscopy due to the the fiber collision effect. These galaxies have been compiled into t…