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

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 3622-10354 at a resolving power of R ∼ 1800. The spectra were obtained using the same instrument as used by the Mapping Nearby Galaxies...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical journal 2019-10, Vol.883 (2), p.175
Main Authors:	Yan, Renbin, Chen, Yanping, Lazarz, Daniel, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Maraston, Claudia, Stringfellow, Guy S., McCarthy, Kyle, Meneses-Goytia, Sofia, Law, David R., Thomas, Daniel, Barroso, Jesus Falcon, Sánchez-Gallego, José R., Schlafly, Edward, Zheng, Zheng, Argudo-Fernández, Maria, Beaton, Rachael L., Beers, Timothy C., Bershady, Matthew, Blanton, Michael R., Brownstein, Joel, Bundy, Kevin, Chambers, Kenneth C., Cherinka, Brian, Lee, Nathan De, Drory, Niv, Galbany, Lluís, Holtzman, Jon, Imig, Julie, Kaiser, Nick, Kinemuchi, Karen, Liu, Chao, Luo, A-Li, Magnier, Eugene, Majewski, Steven, Nair, Preethi, Oravetz, Audrey, Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike, Sobeck, Jennifer, Stassun, Keivan, Talbot, Michael, Tremonti, Christy, Waters, Christopher, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Wilhelm, Ronald, Zasowski, Gail, Zhao, Gang, Zhao, Yong-Heng
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Language:	eng
Subjects:	ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Astrophysics Calibration Empirical analysis Galactic evolution Galaxies Galaxy: stellar content Libraries Mapping Metallicity Observatories Parameters Physics Resolution Sky surveys (astronomy) Spectra Stars Stars & galaxies stars: fundamental parameters stars: general techniques: spectroscopic
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Summary:	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 3622-10354 at a resolving power of R ∼ 1800. The spectra were obtained using the same instrument as used by the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) project, by piggybacking on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV)/Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment 2-N (APOGEE-2N) observations. Compared to previous empirical libraries, the MaStar library will have a higher number of stars and a more comprehensive stellar-parameter coverage, especially of cool dwarfs, low-metallicity stars, and stars with different [ /Fe], achieved by a sophisticated target-selection strategy that takes advantage of stellar-parameter catalogs from the literature. This empirical library will provide a new basis for stellar-population synthesis and is particularly well suited for stellar-population analysis of MaNGA galaxies. The first version of the library contains 8646 high-quality per-visit spectra for 3321 unique stars. Compared to photometry, the relative flux calibration of the library is accurate to 3.9% in g − r, 2.7% in r − i, and 2.2% in i − z. The data are released as part of SDSS Data Release 15. We expect the final release of the library to contain more than 10,000 stars.
ISSN:	0004-637X 1538-4357 1538-4357