Browsing by Author "Lian, Jianhui"

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    How many components? Quantifying the complexity of the metallicity distribution in the Milky Way bulge with APOGEE
    (2020) Rojas-Arriagada, Alvaro; Zasowski, Gail; Schultheis, Mathias; Zoccali, Manuela; Hasselquist, Sten; Chiappini, Cristina; Cohen, Roger E.; Cunha, Katia; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Fragkoudi, Francesca; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Geisler, Doug; Gran, Felipe; Lian, Jianhui; Majewski, Steven; Minniti, Dante; Monachesi, Antonela; Nitschelm, Christian; Queiroz, Anna B. A.
    We use data of similar to 13 000 stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment survey to study the shape of the bulge metallicity distribution function (MDF) within the region vertical bar l vertical bar <= 11 degrees and vertical bar b vertical bar = 13 degrees, and spatially constrained to R-GC <= 3.5 kpc. We apply Gaussian mixture modelling and non-negative matrix factorization decomposition techniques to identify the optimal number and the properties of MDF components. We find that the shape and spatial variations of the MDF (at [Fe/H] >= -1 dex) are well represented as a smoothly varying contribution of three overlapping components located at [Fe/H] = +0.32, -0.17, and -0.66 dex. The bimodal MDF found in previous studies is in agreement with our trimodal assessment once the limitations in sample size and individual measurement errors are taken into account. The shape of the MDF and its correlations with kinematics reveal different spatial distributions and kinematical structure for the three components co-existing in the bulge region. We confirm the consensus physical interpretation of metal-rich stars as associated with the secularly evolved disc into a boxy/peanut X-shape bar. On the other hand, metal-intermediate stars could be the product of in-situ formation at high redshift in a gas-rich environment characterized by violent and fast star formation. This interpretation would help us to link a present-day structure with those observed in formation in the centre of high-redshift galaxies. Finally, metal-poor stars may correspond to the metal-rich tail of the population sampled at lower metallicity from the study of RR Lyrae stars. Conversely, they could be associated with the metal-poor tail of the early thick disc.
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    Quantifying radial migration in the Milky Way: inefficient over short time-scales but essential to the very outer disc beyond ∼15 kpc
    (2022) Lian, Jianhui; Zasowski, Gail; Hasselquist, Sten; Holtzman, Jon A.; Boardman, Nicholas; Cunha, Katia; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Nitschelm, Christian; Lane, Richard R.; Thomas, Daniel; Zhang, Kai
    Stellar radial migration plays an important role in reshaping a galaxy's structure and the radial distribution of stellar population properties. In this work, we revisit reported observational evidence for radial migration and quantify its strength using the age-[Fe/H] distribution of stars across the Milky Way with APOGEE data. We find a broken age-[Fe/H] relation in the Galactic disc at r > 6 kpc, with a more pronounced break at larger radii. To quantify the strength of radial migration, we assume stars born at each radius have a unique age and metallicity, and then decompose the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of mono-age young populations into different Gaussian components that originated from various birth radii at r(birth) < 13 kpc. We find that, at ages of 2 and 3 Gyr, roughly half the stars were formed within 1 kpc of their present radius, and very few stars (<5 per cent) were formed more than 4 kpc away from their present radius. These results suggest limited short-distance radial migration and inefficient long-distance migration in the Milky Way during the last 3 Gyr. In the very outer disc beyond 15 kpc, the observed age-[Fe/H] distribution is consistent with the prediction of pure radial migration from smaller radii, suggesting a migration origin of the very outer disc. We also estimate intrinsic metallicity gradients at ages of 2 and 3 Gyr of -0.061 and -0.063 dex kpc(-1), respectively.
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    SDSS-IV MaNGA: environmental dependence of gas metallicity gradients in local star-forming galaxies
    (2019) Lian, Jianhui; Thomas, Daniel; Li, Cheng; Zheng, Zheng; Maraston, Claudia; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Lane, Richard R.; Yan, Renbin
    Within the standard model of hierarchical galaxy formation in a Lambda cold dark matter universe, the environment of galaxies is expected to play a key role in driving galaxy formation and evolution. In this paper, we investigate whether and how the gas metallicity and the star formation surface density (Sigma(SFR)) depend on galaxy environment. To this end, we analyse a sample of 1162 local, star-forming galaxies from the galaxy survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA). Generally, both parameters do not show any significant dependence on environment. However, in agreement with previous studies, we find that low-mass satellite galaxies are an exception to this rule. The gas metallicity in these objects increases while their Sigma(SFR) decreases slightly with environmental density. The present analysis of MaNGA data allows us to extend this to spatially resolved properties. Our study reveals that the gas metallicity gradients of low-mass satellites flatten and their Sigma(SFR) gradients steepen with increasing environmental density. By extensively exploring a chemical evolution model, we identify two scenarios that are able to explain this pattern: metal-enriched gas accretion or pristine gas inflow with varying accretion time-scales. The latter scenario better matches the observed Sigma(SFR) gradients, and is therefore our preferred solution. In this model, a shorter gas accretion time-scale at larger radii is required. This suggests that 'outside-in quenching' governs the star formation processes of low-mass satellite galaxies in dense environments.
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    The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
    (2020) Ahumada, Romina; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Almeida, Andres; 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, Mederic; Borissova, Jura; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Brinkmann, Jonathan; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bundy, Kevin; Bureau, Martin; Burgasser, Adam; Burtin, Etienne; Cano-Diaz, Mariana; Capasso, Raffaella; Cappellari, Michele; Carrera, Ricardo; Chabanier, Solene; Chaplin, William; Chapman, Michael; Cherinka, Brian; Chiappini, Cristina; Choi, Peter Doohyun; 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., Jr.; Davies, Roger; Dawson, Kyle; De, Nikhil; de la Macorra, Axel; Lee, Nathan De; de Andrade Queiroz, Anna Barbara; Machado, Alice Deconto; de la Torre, Sylvain; Dell'Agli, Flavia; des Bourboux, Helion du Mas; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Dillon, Sean; Donor, John; Drory, Niv; Duckworth, Chris; Dwelly, Tom; Ebelke, Garrett; Eftekharzadeh, Sarah; Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Eracleous, Mike; Erfanianfar, Ghazaleh; Escoffier, Stephanie; Fan, Xiaohui; Farr, Emily; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Feuillet, Diane; Finoguenov, Alexis; Fofie, Patricia; Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Fromenteau, Sebastien; Fu, Hai; Galbany, Lluis; Garcia, Rafael A.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Oehmichen, Luis Alberto Garma; Ge, Junqiang; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; 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.; Chitham, J. Ider; Imig, Julie; Jaber, Mariana; Angel, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jones, Amy M.; Jonsson, Henrik; Jullo, Eric; Kim, Yerim; Kinemuchi, Karen; Iv, Charles C. Kirkpatrick; 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-Pena, Penelope; Lundgren, Britt; Lyke, Brad W.; Mackereth, J. Ted; 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; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Miglio, Andrea; Minniti, Dante; Minsley, Rebecca; Miyaji, Takamitsu; Mohammad, Faizan Gohar; Mosser, Benoit; Mueller, Eva-Maria; Muna, Demitri; Munoz-Gutierrez, 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; Ramirez, Karla Pena; Penny, Samantha; Percival, Will J.; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Perez-Rafols, 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, Rogerio; Rix, Hans-Walter; Robin, Annie C.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Roman-Zuniga, Carlos; Rose, Benjamin; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Rowlands, Kate; Rubin, Kate H. R.; Salvato, Mara; Sanchez, Ariel G.; Sanchez-Menguiano, Laura; Sanchez-Gallego, Jose 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; Shafieloo, Arman; Shamsi, Shoaib Jamal; Shao, Zhengyi; Shen, Shiyin; Shetrone, Matthew; Shirley, Raphael; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Simon, Joshua D.; Skrutskie, M. F.; Slosar, Anze; Smethurst, Rebecca; Sobeck, Jennifer; Sodi, Bernardo Cervantes; Souto, Diogo; Stark, David, V; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stello, Dennis; Stermer, Julianna; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa; Streblyanska, Alina; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Stutz, Amelia; Suarez, Genaro; Sun, Jing; Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr; Talbot, Michael S.; Tayar, Jamie; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Theriault, Riley; Thomas, Daniel; Thomas, Zak C.; Tinker, Jeremy; Tojeiro, Rita; Toledo, Hector Hernandez; Tremonti, Christy A.; Troup, Nicholas W.; Tuttle, Sarah; Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo; Valentini, Marica; Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime; Vargas-Magana, Mariana; Vazquez-Mata, Jose Antonio; Vivek, M.; Wake, David; Wang, Yuting; Weaver, Benjamin Alan; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Wild, Vivienne; Wilson, John C.; Wilson, Robert F.; Wolthuis, Nathan; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Yan, Renbin; Yang, Meng; Yeche, Christophe; Zamora, Olga; Zarrouk, Pauline; Zasowski, Gail; Zhang, Kai; Zhao, Cheng; Zhao, Gongbo; Zheng, Zheng; Zheng, Zheng; Zhu, Guangtun; Zou, Hu
    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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    The age-chemical abundance structure of the Galactic disc - II. α-dichotomy and thick disc formation
    (2020) Lian, Jianhui; Thomas, Daniel; Maraston, Claudia; Beers, Timothy C.; Moni Bidin, Christian; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Lane, Richard R.; Munoz, Ricardo R.; Nitschelm, Christian; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Zamora, Olga
    We extend our previous work on the age-chemical abundance structure of the Galactic outer disc to the inner disc (4 < r < 8 kpc) based on the SDSS/APOGEE survey. Different from the outer disc, the inner disc stars exhibit a clear bimodal distribution in the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane. While a number of scenarios have been proposed in the literature, it remains challenging to recover this bimodal distribution with theoretical models. To this end, we present a chemical evolution model embedding a complex multiphase inner disc formation scenario that matches the observed bimodal [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] distribution. In this scenario, the formation of the inner disc is dominated by two main starburst episodes 6 Gyr apart with secular, low-level star formation activity in between. In our model, the first starburst occurs at early cosmic times (t similar to 1 Gyr) and the second one 6 Gyr later at a cosmic time of t similar to 7 Gyr. Both these starburst episodes are associated with gas accretion events in our model, and are quenched rapidly. The first starburst leads to the formation of the high-a sequence, and the second starburst leads to the formation of the metal-poor low-a sequence. The metal-rich low-alpha stars, instead, form during the secular evolution phase between the two bursts. Our model shows that the alpha-dichotomy originates from the rapid suppression of star formation after the first starburst. The two starburst episodes are likely to be responsible for the formation of the geometric thick disc (z > 1 kpc), with the old inner thick disc and the young outer thick disc forming during the first and the second starbursts, respectively.
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    The Milky Way tomography with APOGEE: intrinsic density distribution and structure of mono-abundance populations
    (2022) Lian, Jianhui; Zasowski, Gail; Mackereth, Ted; Imig, Julie; Holtzman, Jon A.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Bird, Jonathan C.; Cunha, Katia; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Horta, Danny; Lane, Richard R.; Masters, Karen L.; Nitschelm, Christian; Roman-Lopes, A.
    The spatial distribution of mono-abundance populations (MAPs, selected in [Fe/H] and [Mg/Fe]) reflect the chemical and structural evolution in a galaxy and impose strong constraints on galaxy formation models. In this paper, we use APOGEE data to derive the intrinsic density distribution of MAPs in the Milky Way, after carefully considering the survey selection function. We find that a single exponential profile is not a sufficient description of the Milky Way's disc. Both the individual MAPs and the integrated disc exhibit a broken radial density distribution; densities are relatively constant with radius in the inner Galaxy and rapidly decrease beyond the break radius. We fit the intrinsic density distribution as a function of radius and vertical height with a 2D density model that considers both a broken radial profile and radial variation of scale height (i.e. flaring). There is a large variety of structural parameters between different MAPs, indicative of strong structure evolution of the Milky Way. One surprising result is that high-alpha MAPs show the strongest flaring. The young, solar-abundance MAPs present the shortest scale height and least flaring, suggesting recent and ongoing star formation confined to the disc plane. Finally we derive the intrinsic density distribution and corresponding structural parameters of the chemically defined thin and thick discs. The chemical thick and thin discs have local surface mass densities of 5.62 +/- 0.08 and 15.69 +/- 0.32 M(circle dot)pc(-2), respectively, suggesting a massive thick disc with a local surface mass density ratio between thick to thin disc of 36 per cent.
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    The Milky Way's bulge star formation history as constrained from its bimodal chemical abundance distribution
    (2020) Lian, Jianhui; Zasowski, Gail; Hasselquist, Sten; Nataf, David M.; Thomas, Daniel; Bidin, Christian Moni; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Lane, Richard R.; Majewski, Steven R.; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Schultheis, Mathias
    We conduct a quantitative analysis of the star formation history (SFH) of the Milky Way's (MW) bulge by exploiting the constraining power of its stellar [Fe/H] and [Mg/Fe] distribution functions. Using Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment survey data, we confirm the previously established bimodal [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] distribution within 3 kpc of the inner Galaxy. To fit the chemical bimodal distribution, we use a simple but flexible star formation framework, which assumes two distinct stages of gas accretion and star formation, and systematically evaluate a wide multidimensional parameter space. We find that the data favour a three-phase SFH that consists of an initial starburst, followed by a rapid star formation quenching episode, and a lengthy, quiescent secular evolution phase. The metal-poor, high-alpha bulge stars ([Fe/H] < 0.0 and [Mg/Fe] > 0.15) are formed rapidly (<2Gyr) during the early starburst. The density gap between the high- and low-alpha sequences is due to the quenching process. The metal-rich, low-a population ([Fe/H] > 0.0 and [Mg/Fe] < 0.15) then accumulates gradually through inefficient star formation during the secular phase. This is qualitatively consistent with the early SFH of the inner disc. Given this scenario, a notable fraction of young stars (age <5Gyr) is expected to persist in the bulge. Combined with extragalactic observations, these results suggest that a rapid star formation quenching process is responsible for bimodal distributions in both the MW's stellar populations and in the general galaxy population and thus plays a critical role in galaxy evolution.
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    The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data
    (2022) Abdurro'uf; Accetta, Katherine; Aerts, Conny; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Ahumada, Romina; Ajgaonkar, Nikhil; Ak, N. Filiz; Alam, Shadab; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Almeida, Andres; Anders, Friedrich; Anderson, Scott F.; Andrews, Brett H.; Anguiano, Borja; Aquino-Ortiz, Erik; Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso; Argudo-Fernandez, Maria; Ata, Metin; Aubert, Marie; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Badenes, Carles; Barba, Rodolfo H.; Barger, Kat; Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge K.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Beers, Timothy C.; Belfiore, Francesco; Bender, Chad F.; Bernardi, Mariangela; Bershady, Matthew A.; Beutler, Florian; Bidin, Christian Moni; Bird, Jonathan C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Boardman, Nicholas Fraser; Bolton, Adam S.; Boquien, Mederic; Borissova, Jura; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Brown, Jordan; Brownstein, Joel R.; Brusa, Marcella; Buchner, Johannes; Bundy, Kevin; Burchett, Joseph N.; Bureau, Martin; Burgasser, Adam; Cabang, Tuesday K.; Campbell, Stephanie; Cappellari, Michele; Carlberg, Joleen K.; Wanderley, Fabio Carneiro; Carrera, Ricardo; Cash, Jennifer; Chen, Yan-Ping; Chen, Wei-Huai; Cherinka, Brian; Chiappini, Cristina; Choi, Peter Doohyun; Chojnowski, S. Drew; Chung, Haeun; Clerc, Nicolas; Cohen, Roger E.; Comerford, Julia M.; Comparat, Johan; da Costa, Luiz; Covey, Kevin; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene; Culhane, Connor; Cunha, Katia; Dai, Y. Sophia; Damke, Guillermo; Darling, Jeremy; Davidson, James W., Jr.; Davies, Roger; Dawson, Kyle; De Lee, Nathan; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Cano-Diaz, Mariana; Sanchez, Helena Dominguez; Donor, John; Duckworth, Chris; Dwelly, Tom; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Emsellem, Eric; Eracleous, Mike; Escoffier, Stephanie; Fan, Xiaohui; Farr, Emily; Feng, Shuai; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Feuillet, Diane; Filipp, Andreas; Fillingham, Sean P.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Fromenteau, Sebastien; Galbany, Lluis; Garcia, Rafael A.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Ge, Junqiang; Geisler, Doug; Gelfand, Joseph; Geron, Tobias; Gibson, Benjamin J.; Goddy, Julian; Godoy-Rivera, Diego; Grabowski, Kathleen; Green, Paul J.; Greener, Michael; Grier, Catherine J.; Griffith, Emily; Guo, Hong; Guy, Julien; Hadjara, Massinissa; Harding, Paul; Hasselquist, Sten; Hayes, Christian R.; Hearty, Fred; Hill, Lewis; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Horta, Danny; Hsieh, Bau-Ching; Hsu, Chin-Hao; Hsu, Yun-Hsin; Huber, Daniel; Huertas-Company, Marc; Hutchinson, Brian; Hwang, Ho Seong; Ibarra-Medel, Hector J.; Chitham, Jacob Ider; Ilha, Gabriele S.; Imig, Julie; Jaekle, Will; Jayasinghe, Tharindu; Ji, Xihan; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jones, Amy; Jonsson, Henrik; Katkov, Ivan; Khalatyan, Arman; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kisku, Shobhit; Knapen, Johan H.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Kong, Miranda; Kounkel, Marina; Kreckel, Kathryn; Krishnarao, Dhanesh; Lacerna, Ivan; Lane, Richard R.; Langgin, Rachel; Lavender, Ramon; Law, David R.; Lazarz, Daniel; Leung, Henry W.; Leung, Ho-Hin; Lewis, Hannah M.; Li, Cheng; Li, Ran; Lian, Jianhui; Liang, Fu-Heng; Lin, Lihwai; Lin, Yen-Ting; Lin, Sicheng; Lintott, Chris; Long, Dan; Longa-Pena, Penelope; Lopez-Coba, Carlos; Lu, Shengdong; Lundgren, Britt F.; Luo, Yuanze; Mackereth, J. Ted; de la Macorra, Axel; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Majewski, Steven R.; Manchado, Arturo; Mandeville, Travis; Maraston, Claudia; Margalef-Bentabol, Berta; Masseron, Thomas; Masters, Karen L.; Mathur, Savita; McDermid, Richard M.; Mckay, Myles; Merloni, Andrea; Merrifield, Michael; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Miglio, Andrea; Di Mille, Francesco; Minniti, Dante; Minsley, Rebecca; Monachesi, Antonela; Moon, Jeongin; Mosser, Benoit; Mulchaey, John; Muna, Demitri; Munoz, Ricardo R.; Myers, Adam D.; Myers, Natalie; Nadathur, Seshadri; Nair, Preethi; Nandra, Kirpal; Neumann, Justus; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Nidever, David L.; Nikakhtar, Farnik; Nitschelm, Christian; O'Connell, Julia E.; Garma-Oehmichen, Luis; de Oliveira, Gabriel Luan Souza; Olney, Richard; Oravetz, Daniel; Ortigoza-Urdaneta, Mario; Osorio, Yeisson; Otter, Justin; Pace, Zachary J.; Padilla, Nelson; Pan, Kaike; Pan, Hsi-An; Parikh, Taniya; Parker, James; Peirani, Sebastien; Ramirez, Karla Pena; Penny, Samantha; Percival, Will J.; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Pinsonneault, Marc; Poidevin, Frederick; Poovelil, Vijith Jacob; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Queiroz, Anna Barbara de Andrade; Raddick, M. Jordan; Ray, Amy; Rembold, Sandro Barboza; Riddle, Nicole; Riffel, Rogemar A.; Riffel, Rogerio; Rix, Hans-Walter; Robin, Annie C.; Rodriguez-Puebla, Aldo; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Roman-Zuniga, Carlos; Rose, Benjamin; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Rubin, Kate H. R.; Salvato, Mara; Sanchez, Sebastian F.; Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R.; Sanderson, Robyn; Rojas, Felipe Antonio Santana; Sarceno, Edgar; Sarmiento, Regina; Sayres, Conor; Sazonova, Elizaveta; Schaefer, Adam L.; Schiavon, Ricardo; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schultheis, Mathias; Schwope, Axel; Serenelli, Aldo; Serna, Javier; Shao, Zhengyi; Shapiro, Griffin; Sharma, Anubhav; Shen, Yue; Shetrone, Matthew; Shu, Yiping; Simon, Joshua D.; Skrutskie, M. F.; Smethurst, Rebecca; Smith, Verne; Sobeck, Jennifer; Spoo, Taylor; Sprague, Dani; Stark, David, V; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stello, Dennis; Stone-Martinez, Alexander; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Stutz, Amelia; Su, Yung-Chau; Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr; Talbot, Michael S.; Tayar, Jamie; Telles, Eduardo; Teske, Johanna; Thakar, Ani; Theissen, Christopher; Tkachenko, Andrew; Thomas, Daniel; Tojeiro, Rita; Toledo, Hector Hernandez; Troup, Nicholas W.; Trump, Jonathan R.; Trussler, James; Turner, Jacqueline; Tuttle, Sarah; Unda-Sanzana, Eduardo; Vazquez-Mata, Jose Antonio; Valentini, Marica; Valenzuela, Octavio; Vargas-Gonzalez, Jaime; Vargas-Magana, Mariana; Alfaro, Pablo Vera; Villanova, Sandro; Vincenzo, Fiorenzo; Wake, David; Warfield, Jack T.; Washington, Jessica Diane; Weaver, Benjamin Alan; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Weinberg, David H.; Weiss, Achim; Westfall, Kyle B.; Wild, Vivienne; Wilde, Matthew C.; Wilson, John C.; Wilson, Robert F.; Wilson, Mikayla; Wolf, Julien; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Yan, Renbin; Zamora, Olga; Zasowski, Gail; Zhang, Kai; Zhao, Cheng; Zheng, Zheng; Zheng, Zheng; Zhu, Kai
    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 release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, which reached its goal of surveying over 10,000 nearby galaxies. The complete release of the MaNGA Stellar Library accompanies this data, providing observations of almost 30,000 stars through the MaNGA instrument during bright time. DR17 also contains the complete release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 survey that publicly releases infrared spectra of over 650,000 stars. The main sample from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), as well as the subsurvey Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey data were fully released in DR16. New single-fiber optical spectroscopy released in DR17 is from the SPectroscipic IDentification of ERosita Survey subsurvey and the eBOSS-RM program. Along with the primary data sets, DR17 includes 25 new or updated value-added catalogs. This paper concludes the release of SDSS-IV survey data. SDSS continues into its fifth phase with observations already underway for the Milky Way Mapper, Local Volume Mapper, and Black Hole Mapper surveys.