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most citedThe Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

A Transient "Changing-look'' Active Galactic Nucleus Resolved on Month Timescales from First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Data

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +32

We report the discovery of a new ``changing-look'' active galactic nucleus (CLAGN) event, in the quasar SDSS J162829.17+432948.5 at z=0.2603, identified through repeat spectroscopy…

astro-ph.IM2022

The MegaMapper: A Stage-5 Spectroscopic Instrument Concept for the Study of Inflation and Dark Energy

David J. Schlegel, Juna A. Kollmeier, Greg Aldering +86

In this white paper, we present the MegaMapper concept. The MegaMapper is a proposed ground-based experiment to measure Inflation parameters and Dark Energy from galaxy redshifts a…

astro-ph.CO2022

A Spectroscopic Road Map for Cosmic Frontier: DESI, DESI-II, Stage-5

David J. Schlegel, Simone Ferraro, Greg Aldering +62

In this white paper, we present an experimental road map for spectroscopic experiments beyond DESI. DESI will be a transformative cosmological survey in the 2020s, mapping 40 milli…

astro-ph.IM2022

Zeta-Payne: a fully automated spectrum analysis algorithm for the Milky Way Mapper program of the SDSS-V survey

Ilya Straumit, Andrew Tkachenko, Sarah Gebruers +13

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has recently initiated its 5th survey generation (SDSS-V), with a central focus on stellar spectroscopy. In particular, SDSS-V Milky Way Mapper program…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 36 cited

Simulated Bars May Be Shorter But Are Not Slower Than Observed: TNG50 vs. MaNGA

Neige Frankel, Annalisa Pillepich, Hans-Walter Rix +6

Galactic bars are prominent dynamical structures within disk galaxies whose size, formation time, strength, and pattern speed influence the dynamical evolution of their hosts galax…

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…