The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Creators: Ahumada, Romina; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Almeida, Andrés; Anders, Friedrich; Anderson, Scott F.; Andrews, Brett H.; Anguiano, Borja; Arcodia, Riccardo; Armengaud, Eric; Aubert, Marie; Avila, Santiago; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Badenes, Carles; Balland, Christophe; Barger, Kat; Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge K.; Basu, Sarbani; Bautista, Julian; Beaton, Rachael L.; Beers, Timothy C.; Benavides, B. Izamar T.; Bender, Chad F.; Bernardi, Mariangela; Bershady, Matthew; Beutler, Florian; Bidin, Christian Moni; Bird, Jonathan; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Boquien, Médéric; Borissova, Jura; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Brinkmann, Jonathan; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bundy, Kevin; Bureau, Martin; Burgasser, Adam; Burtin, Etienne; Cano-Díaz, Mariana; Capasso, Raffaella; Cappellari, Michele; Carrera, Ricardo; Chabanier, Solène; Chaplin, William; Chapman, Michael; Cherinka, Brian; Chiappini, Cristina; Doohyun Choi, Peter; Chojnowski, S. Drew; Chung, Haeun; Clerc, Nicolas; Coffey, Damien; Comerford, Julia M.; Comparat, Johan; da Costa, Luiz; Cousinou, Marie-Claude; Covey, Kevin; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Cunha, Katia; Ilha, Gabriele da Silva; Dai, Yu Sophia; Damsted, Sanna B.; Darling, Jeremy; Davidson, James W.; Davies, Roger; Dawson, Kyle; De, Nikhil; de la Macorra, Axel; De Lee, Nathan; de Andrade Queiroz, Anna Bárbara; Deconto Machado, Alice; de la Torre, Sylvain; Dell'Agli, Flavia; du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Dillon, Sean; Donor, John; Drory, Niv; Duckworth, Chris; Dwelly, Tom; Ebelke, Garrett; Eftekharzadeh, Sarah; Davis Eigenbrot, Arthur; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Eracleous, Mike; Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh; Escoffier, Stephanie; Fan, Xiaohui; Farr, Emily; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Feuillet, Diane; Finoguenov, Alexis; Fofie, Patricia; Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Fromenteau, Sebastien; Fu, Hai; Galbany, Lluís; Garcia, Rafael A.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Garma Oehmichen, Luis Alberto; Ge, Junqiang; Geimba Maia, Marcio Antonio; Geisler, Doug; Gelfand, Joseph; Goddy, Julian; Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta; Grabowski, Kathleen; Green, Paul; Grier, Catherine J.; Guo, Hong; Guy, Julien; Harding, Paul; Hasselquist, Sten; Hawken, Adam James; Hayes, Christian R.; Hearty, Fred; Hekker, S.; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Horta, Danny; Hou, Jiamin; Hsieh, Bau-Ching; Huber, Daniel; Hunt, Jason A. S.; Ider Chitham, J.; Imig, Julie; Jaber, Mariana; Jimenez Angel, Camilo Eduardo; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jones, Amy M.; Jönsson, Henrik; Jullo, Eric; Kim, Yerim; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kirkpatrick IV, Charles C.; Kite, George W.; Klaene, Mark; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kong, Hui; Kounkel, Marina; Krishnarao, Dhanesh; Lacerna, Ivan; Lan, Ting-Wen; Lane, Richard R.; Law, David R.; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; Leung, Henry W.; Lewis, Hannah; Li, Cheng; Lian, Jianhui; Lin, Lihwai; Long, Dan; Longa-Peña, Penélope; Lundgren, Britt; Lyke, Brad W.; Ted Mackereth, J.; MacLeod, Chelsea L.; Majewski, Steven R.; Manchado, Arturo; Maraston, Claudia; Martini, Paul; Masseron, Thomas; Masters, Karen L.; Mathur, Savita; McDermid, Richard M.; Merloni, Andrea; Merrifield, Michael; Mészáros, Szabolcs; Miglio, Andrea; Minniti, Dante; Minsley, Rebecca; Miyaji, Takamitsu; Mohammad, Faizan Gohar; Mosser, Benoit; Mueller, Eva-Maria; Muna, Demitri; Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Andrea; Myers, Adam D.; Nadathur, Seshadri; Nair, Preethi; Nandra, Kirpal; do Nascimento, Janaina Correa; Nevin, Rebecca Jean; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Nidever, David L.; Nitschelm, Christian; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; O'Connell, Julia E.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Daniel; Oravetz, Audrey; Osorio, Yeisson; Pace, Zachary J.; Padilla, Nelson; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Palicio, Pedro A.; Pan, Hsi-An; Pan, Kaike; Parker, James; Paviot, Romain; Peirani, Sebastien; Peña Ramŕez, Karla; Penny, Samantha; Percival, Will J.; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi; Petitjean, Patrick; Pieri, Matthew M.; Pinsonneault, Marc; Poovelil, Vijith Jacob; Povick, Joshua Tyler; Prakash, Abhishek; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Raddick, M. Jordan; Raichoor, Anand; Ray, Amy; Rembold, Sandro Barboza; Rezaie, Mehdi; Riffel, Rogemar A.; Riffel, Rogério; Rix, Hans-Walter; Robin, Annie C.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos; Rose, Benjamin; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Rowlands, Kate; Rubin, Kate H. R.; Salvato, Mara; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Sánchez-Menguiano, Laura; Sánchez-Gallego, José R.; Sayres, Conor; Schaefer, Adam; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schimoia, Jaderson S.; Schlafly, Edward; Schlegel, David; Schneider, Donald P.; Schultheis, Mathias; Schwope, Axel; Seo, Hee-Jong; Serenelli, Aldo M.; Shafieloo, Arman; Shamsi, Shoaib Jamal; Shao, Zhengyi; Shen, Shiyin; Shetrone, Matthew; Shirley, Raphael; Silva Aguirre, Víctor; Simon, Joshua D.; Skrutskie, M. 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Abstract

This paper documents the 16th data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS), the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of data from the Southern Hemisphere survey of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2); new data from APOGEE-2 North are also included. DR16 is also notable as the final data release for the main cosmological program of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), and all raw and reduced spectra from that project are released here. DR16 also includes all the data from the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey and new data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Survey programs, both of which were co-observed on eBOSS plates. DR16 has no new data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey (or the MaNGA Stellar Library "MaStar"). We also preview future SDSS-V operations (due to start in 2020), and summarize plans for the final SDSS-IV data release (DR17).

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© 2020. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2019 December 4; revised 2020 May 7; accepted 2020 May 11; published 2020 June 25. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss.org. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo, Korean Participation Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatário Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. Co-authorship on SDSS-IV data papers is alphabetical by last name and offered to all collaboration members who have contributed at least one month FTE toward any of the surveys during the period up to the end of data collection; and any external collaboration who has contributed at least one month FTE to work critical to the data release. We would like to thank the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) at the Ohio State University for their hospitality during "DocuBrew" 2019. This event held in 2019 August was the main venue for documentation updates for DR16 (including this paper), was organized by A.R., J.J., and A.-M.W and attended by R.B., J.B., B.C., K.D., S.H., A.J., J.H., K.M., J.R., J.S.-G., F.S., and M.T. (and remotely by H.J., J.B., J.H., J.S., C.G. J.C., S.A., R.T., B.L., and J.P.). Figures 1 and 2 were made by C.H. Figure 4 was made by A.R. and Figure 5 by M.V. and J.B. This research made use of astropy, a community-developed core python (http://www.python.org) package for Astronomy (Robitaille et al. 2013), ipython (Pérez & Granger 2007), matplotlib (Hunter 2007), numpy (Walt et al. 2011), scipy (Virtanen et al. 2020), and topcat (Taylor 2005).

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