Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji
| First 5 Authors: SDSS Collaboration, SDSS Collaboration, , ,
| Summary:
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 objects to constrain the physical processes that govern
our Universe. The most recent and fifth generation of SDSS (SDSS-V) is
organized into three scientific “mappers". Milky Way Mapper (MWM) that aims to
chart the various components of the Milky Way and constrain its formation and
assembly, Black Hole Mapper (BHM), which focuses on understanding supermassive
black holes in distant galaxies across the Universe, and Local Volume Mapper
(LVM), which uses integral field spectroscopy to map the ionized interstellar
medium in the local group. This paper describes and outlines the scope and
content for the nineteenth data release (DR19) of SDSS and the most substantial
to date in SDSS-V. DR19 is the first to contain data from all three mappers.
Additionally, we also describe nine value added catalogs (VACs) that enhance
the science that can be conducted with the SDSS-V data. Finally, we discuss how
to access SDSS DR19 and provide illustrative examples and tutorials.
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