The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

S. Alam; F.D. Albareti; C.A. Prieto; F. Anders; S.F. Anderson; T. Anderton; B.H. Andrews; E. Armengaud; É. Aubourg; S. Bailey; S. Basu; J.E. Bautista; R.L. Beaton; T.C. Beers; C.F. Bender; A.A. Berlind; F. Beutler; V. Bhardwaj; J.C. Bird; D. Bizyaev; C.H. Blake; M.R. Blanton; M. Blomqvist; J.J. Bochanski; A.S. Bolton; J. Bovy; A.S. Bradley; W.N. Brandt; D.E. Brauer; J. Brinkmann; P.J. Brown; J.R. Brownstein; A. Burden; E. Burtin; N.G. Busca; Z. Cai; D. Capozzi; A.C. Rosell; M.A. Carr; R. Carrera; K.C. Chambers; W.J. Chaplin; Y.-C. Chen; C. Chiappini; S.D. Chojnowski; C.-H. Chuang; N. Clerc; J. Comparat; K. Covey; R.A.C. Croft; A.J. Cuesta; K. Cunha; L.N.D. Costa; N.D. Rio; J.R.A. Davenport; K.S. Dawson; N.D. Lee; T. Delubac; R. Deshpande; S. Dhital; L. Dutra-Ferreira; T. Dwelly; A. Ealet; G.L. Ebelke; E.M. Edmondson; D.J. Eisenstein; T. Ellsworth; Y. Elsworth; C.R. Epstein; M. Eracleous; S. Escoffier; M. Esposito; M.L. Evans; X. Fan; E. Fernández-Alvar; D. Feuillet; N.F. Ak; H. Finley; A. Finoguenov; K. Flaherty; S.W. Fleming; A. Font-Ribera; J. Foster; P.M. Frinchaboy; J.G. Galbraith-Frew; R.A. García; D.A. García-Hernández; A.E.G. Pérez; P. Gaulme; J. Ge; R. Génova-Santos; A. Georgakakis; L. Ghezzi; B.A. Gillespie; L. Girardi; D. Goddard; S.G.A. Gontcho; J.I.G. Hernández; E.K. Grebel; P.J. Green; J.N. Grieb; N. Grieves; J.E. Gunn; H. Guo; P. Harding; S. Hasselquist; S.L. Hawley; M. Hayden; F.R. Hearty; S. Hekker; S. Ho; D.W. Hogg; K. Holley-Bockelmann; J.A. Holtzman; K. Honscheid; D. Huber; J. Huehnerhoff; I.I. Ivans; L. Jiang; J.A. Johnson; K. Kinemuchi; D. Kirkby; F. Kitaura; M.A. Klaene; G.R. Knapp; J.-P. Kneib; X.P. Koenig; C.R. Lam; T.-W. Lan; D. Lang; P. Laurent; J.-M.L. Goff; A. Leauthaud; K.-G. Lee; Y.S. Lee; T.C. Licquia; J. Liu; D.C. Long; M. López-Corredoira; D. Lorenzo-Oliveira; S. Lucatello; B. Lundgren; R.H. Lupton; C.E.M. Iii; S. Mahadevan; M.A.G. Maia; S.R. Majewski; E. Malanushenko; V. Malanushenko; A. Manchado; M. Manera; Q. Mao; C. Maraston; R.C. Marchwinski; D. Margala; S.L. Martell; M. Martig; K.L. Masters; S. Mathur; C.K. McBride; P.M. McGehee; I.D. McGreer; R.G. McMahon; B. Ménard; M.-L. Menzel; A. Merloni; S. Mészáros; A.A. Miller; J. Miralda-Escudé; H. Miyatake; A.D. Montero-Dorta; S. More; E. Morganson; X. Morice-Atkinson; H.L. Morrison; B. Mosser; D. Muna; A.D. Myers; K. Nandra; J.A. Newman; M. Neyrinck; D.C. Nguyen; R.C. Nichol; D.L. Nidever; P. Noterdaeme; S.E. Nuza; J.E. O'Connell; R.W. O'Connell; R. O'Connell; R.L.C. Ogando; M.D. Olmstead; A.E. Oravetz; D.J. Oravetz; K. Osumi; R. Owen; D.L. Padgett; N. Padmanabhan; M. Paegert; N. Palanque-Delabrouille; K. Pan; J.K. Parejko; I. Pâris; C. Park; P. Pattarakijwanich; M. Pellejero-Ibanez; J. Pepper; W.J. Percival; I. Pérez-Fournon; I. Pérez-Ra'Fols; P. Petitjean; M.M. Pieri; M.H. Pinsonneault; G.F.P.D. Mello; F. Prada; A. Prakash; A.M. Price-Whelan; P. Protopapas; M.J. Raddick; M. Rahman; B.A. Reid; J. Rich; H.-W. Rix; A.C. Robin; C.M. Rockosi; T.S. Rodrigues; S. Rodríguez-Torres; N.A. Roe; A.J. Ross; N.P. Ross; G. Rossi; J.J. Ruan; J.A. Rubiño-Martín; E.S. Rykoff; S. Salazar-Albornoz; M. Salvato; L. Samushia; A.G. Sánchez; B. Santiago; C. Sayres; R.P. Schiavon; D.J. Schlegel; S.J. Schmidt; D.P. Schneider; M. Schultheis; A.D. Schwope; C.G. Scóccola; C. Scott; K. Sellgren; H.-J. Seo; A. Serenelli; N. Shane; Y. Shen; M. Shetrone; Y. Shu; V.S. Aguirre; T. Sivarani; M.F. Skrutskie; A. Slosar; V.V. Smith; F. Sobreira; D. Souto; K.G. Stassun; M. Steinmetz; D. Stello; M.A. Strauss; A. Streblyanska; N. Suzuki; M.E.C. Swanson; J.C. Tan; J. Tayar; R.C. Terrien; A.R. Thakar; D. Thomas; N. Thomas; B.A. Thompson; J.L. Tinker; R. Tojeiro; N.W. Troup; M. Vargas-Magaña; J.A. Vazquez; L. Verde; M. Viel; N.P. Vogt; D.A. Wake; J. Wang; B.A. Weaver; D.H. Weinberg; B.J. Weiner; M. White; J.C. Wilson; J.P. Wisniewski; W.M. Wood-Vasey; C. Ye'Che; D.G. York; N.L. Zakamska; O. Zamora; G. Zasowski; I. Zehavi; G.-B. Zhao; Z. Zheng; X. Zhou; Z. Zhou; H. Zou; G. Zhu

doi:10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

S. Alam, F.D. Albareti, C.A. Prieto, F. Anders, S.F. Anderson, T. Anderton, B.H. Andrews, E. Armengaud, É. Aubourg, S. Bailey, S. Basu, J.E. Bautista, R.L. Beaton, T.C. Beers, C.F. Bender, A.A. Berlind, F. Beutler, V. Bhardwaj, J.C. Bird, D. BizyaevC.H. Blake, M.R. Blanton, M. Blomqvist, J.J. Bochanski, A.S. Bolton, J. Bovy, A.S. Bradley, W.N. Brandt, D.E. Brauer, J. Brinkmann, P.J. Brown, J.R. Brownstein, A. Burden, E. Burtin, N.G. Busca, Z. Cai, D. Capozzi, A.C. Rosell, M.A. Carr, R. Carrera, K.C. Chambers, W.J. Chaplin, Y.-C. Chen, C. Chiappini, S.D. Chojnowski, C.-H. Chuang, N. Clerc, J. Comparat, K. Covey, R.A.C. Croft, A.J. Cuesta, K. Cunha, L.N.D. Costa, N.D. Rio, J.R.A. Davenport, K.S. Dawson, N.D. Lee, T. Delubac, R. Deshpande, S. Dhital, L. Dutra-Ferreira, T. Dwelly, A. Ealet, G.L. Ebelke, E.M. Edmondson, D.J. Eisenstein, T. Ellsworth, Y. Elsworth, C.R. Epstein, M. Eracleous, S. Escoffier, M. Esposito, M.L. Evans, X. Fan, E. Fernández-Alvar, D. Feuillet, N.F. Ak, H. Finley, A. Finoguenov, K. Flaherty, S.W. Fleming, A. Font-Ribera, J. Foster, P.M. Frinchaboy, J.G. Galbraith-Frew, R.A. García, D.A. García-Hernández, A.E.G. Pérez, P. Gaulme, J. Ge, R. Génova-Santos, A. Georgakakis, L. Ghezzi, B.A. Gillespie, L. Girardi, D. Goddard, S.G.A. Gontcho, J.I.G. Hernández, E.K. Grebel, P.J. Green, J.N. Grieb, N. Grieves, J.E. Gunn, H. Guo, P. Harding, S. Hasselquist, S.L. Hawley, M. Hayden, F.R. Hearty, S. Hekker, S. Ho, D.W. Hogg, K. Holley-Bockelmann, J.A. Holtzman, K. Honscheid, D. Huber, J. Huehnerhoff, I.I. Ivans, L. Jiang, J.A. Johnson, K. Kinemuchi, D. Kirkby, F. Kitaura, M.A. Klaene, G.R. Knapp, J.-P. Kneib, X.P. Koenig, C.R. Lam, T.-W. Lan, D. Lang, P. Laurent, J.-M.L. Goff, A. Leauthaud, K.-G. Lee, Y.S. Lee, T.C. Licquia, J. Liu, D.C. Long, M. López-Corredoira, D. Lorenzo-Oliveira, S. Lucatello, B. Lundgren, R.H. Lupton, C.E.M. Iii, S. Mahadevan, M.A.G. Maia, S.R. Majewski, E. Malanushenko, V. Malanushenko, A. Manchado, M. Manera, Q. Mao, C. Maraston, R.C. Marchwinski, D. Margala, S.L. Martell, M. Martig, K.L. Masters, S. Mathur, C.K. McBride, P.M. McGehee, I.D. McGreer, R.G. McMahon, B. Ménard, M.-L. Menzel, A. Merloni, S. Mészáros, A.A. Miller, J. Miralda-Escudé, H. Miyatake, A.D. Montero-Dorta, S. More, E. Morganson, X. Morice-Atkinson, H.L. Morrison, B. Mosser, D. Muna, A.D. Myers, K. Nandra, J.A. Newman, M. Neyrinck, D.C. Nguyen, R.C. Nichol, D.L. Nidever, P. Noterdaeme, S.E. Nuza, J.E. O'Connell, R.W. O'Connell, R. O'Connell, R.L.C. Ogando, M.D. Olmstead, A.E. Oravetz, D.J. Oravetz, K. Osumi, R. Owen, D.L. Padgett, N. Padmanabhan, M. Paegert, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K. Pan, J.K. Parejko, I. Pâris, C. Park, P. Pattarakijwanich, M. Pellejero-Ibanez, J. Pepper, W.J. Percival, I. Pérez-Fournon, I. Pérez-Ra'Fols, P. Petitjean, M.M. Pieri, M.H. Pinsonneault, G.F.P.D. Mello, F. Prada, A. Prakash, A.M. Price-Whelan, P. Protopapas, M.J. Raddick, M. Rahman, B.A. Reid, J. Rich, H.-W. Rix, A.C. Robin, C.M. Rockosi, T.S. Rodrigues, S. Rodríguez-Torres, N.A. Roe, A.J. Ross, N.P. Ross, G. Rossi, J.J. Ruan, J.A. Rubiño-Martín, E.S. Rykoff, S. Salazar-Albornoz, M. Salvato, L. Samushia, A.G. Sánchez, B. Santiago, C. Sayres, R.P. Schiavon, D.J. Schlegel, S.J. Schmidt, D.P. Schneider, M. Schultheis, A.D. Schwope, C.G. Scóccola, C. Scott, K. Sellgren, H.-J. Seo, A. Serenelli, N. Shane, Y. Shen, M. Shetrone, Y. Shu, V.S. Aguirre, T. Sivarani, M.F. Skrutskie, A. Slosar, V.V. Smith, F. Sobreira, D. Souto, K.G. Stassun, M. Steinmetz, D. Stello, M.A. Strauss, A. Streblyanska, N. Suzuki, M.E.C. Swanson, J.C. Tan, J. Tayar, R.C. Terrien, A.R. Thakar, D. Thomas, N. Thomas, B.A. Thompson, J.L. Tinker, R. Tojeiro, N.W. Troup, M. Vargas-Magaña, J.A. Vazquez, L. Verde, M. Viel, N.P. Vogt, D.A. Wake, J. Wang, B.A. Weaver, D.H. Weinberg, B.J. Weiner, M. White, J.C. Wilson, J.P. Wisniewski, W.M. Wood-Vasey, C. Ye'Che, D.G. York, N.L. Zakamska, O. Zamora, G. Zasowski, I. Zehavi, G.-B. Zhao, Z. Zheng, X. Zhou, Z. Zhou, H. Zou, G. Zhu

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The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11
(DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12)
adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous
data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity
measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2)
survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and
197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over
five million astronomical spectra.

Original language	English
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Supplement
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2015

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Alam, S., Albareti, F. D., Prieto, C. A., Anders, F., Anderson, S. F., Anderton, T., Andrews, B. H., Armengaud, E., Aubourg, É., Bailey, S., Basu, S., Bautista, J. E., Beaton, R. L., Beers, T. C., Bender, C. F., Berlind, A. A., Beutler, F., Bhardwaj, V., Bird, J. C., ... Zhu, G. (2015). The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III. Astrophysical Journal Supplement. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12

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abstract = "The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11(DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12)adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previousdata releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocitymeasurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2)survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained overfive million astronomical spectra.",

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Alam, S, Albareti, FD, Prieto, CA, Anders, F, Anderson, SF, Anderton, T, Andrews, BH, Armengaud, E, Aubourg, É, Bailey, S, Basu, S, Bautista, JE, Beaton, RL, Beers, TC, Bender, CF, Berlind, AA, Beutler, F, Bhardwaj, V, Bird, JC, Bizyaev, D, Blake, CH, Blanton, MR, Blomqvist, M, Bochanski, JJ, Bolton, AS, Bovy, J, Bradley, AS, Brandt, WN, Brauer, DE, Brinkmann, J, Brown, PJ, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A, Burtin, E, Busca, NG, Cai, Z, Capozzi, D, Rosell, AC, Carr, MA, Carrera, R, Chambers, KC, Chaplin, WJ, Chen, Y-C, Chiappini, C, Chojnowski, SD, Chuang, C-H, Clerc, N, Comparat, J, Covey, K, Croft, RAC, Cuesta, AJ, Cunha, K, Costa, LND, Rio, ND, Davenport, JRA, Dawson, KS, Lee, ND, Delubac, T, Deshpande, R, Dhital, S, Dutra-Ferreira, L, Dwelly, T, Ealet, A, Ebelke, GL, Edmondson, EM, Eisenstein, DJ, Ellsworth, T, Elsworth, Y, Epstein, CR, Eracleous, M, Escoffier, S, Esposito, M, Evans, ML, Fan, X, Fernández-Alvar, E, Feuillet, D, Ak, NF, Finley, H, Finoguenov, A, Flaherty, K, Fleming, SW, Font-Ribera, A, Foster, J, Frinchaboy, PM, Galbraith-Frew, JG, García, RA, García-Hernández, DA, Pérez, AEG, Gaulme, P, Ge, J, Génova-Santos, R, Georgakakis, A, Ghezzi, L, Gillespie, BA, Girardi, L, Goddard, D, Gontcho, SGA, Hernández, JIG, Grebel, EK, Green, PJ, Grieb, JN, Grieves, N, Gunn, JE, Guo, H, Harding, P, Hasselquist, S, Hawley, SL, Hayden, M, Hearty, FR, Hekker, S, Ho, S, Hogg, DW, Holley-Bockelmann, K, Holtzman, JA, Honscheid, K, Huber, D, Huehnerhoff, J, Ivans, II, Jiang, L, Johnson, JA, Kinemuchi, K, Kirkby, D, Kitaura, F, Klaene, MA, Knapp, GR, Kneib, J-P, Koenig, XP, Lam, CR, Lan, T-W, Lang, D, Laurent, P, Goff, J-ML, Leauthaud, A, Lee, K-G, Lee, YS, Licquia, TC, Liu, J, Long, DC, López-Corredoira, M, Lorenzo-Oliveira, D, Lucatello, S, Lundgren, B, Lupton, RH, Iii, CEM, Mahadevan, S, Maia, MAG, Majewski, SR, Malanushenko, E, Malanushenko, V, Manchado, A, Manera, M, Mao, Q, Maraston, C, Marchwinski, RC, Margala, D, Martell, SL, Martig, M, Masters, KL, Mathur, S, McBride, CK, McGehee, PM, McGreer, ID, McMahon, RG, Ménard, B, Menzel, M-L, Merloni, A, Mészáros, S, Miller, AA, Miralda-Escudé, J, Miyatake, H, Montero-Dorta, AD, More, S, Morganson, E, Morice-Atkinson, X, Morrison, HL, Mosser, B, Muna, D, Myers, AD, Nandra, K, Newman, JA, Neyrinck, M, Nguyen, DC, Nichol, RC, Nidever, DL, Noterdaeme, P, Nuza, SE, O'Connell, JE, O'Connell, RW, O'Connell, R, Ogando, RLC, Olmstead, MD, Oravetz, AE, Oravetz, DJ, Osumi, K, Owen, R, Padgett, DL, Padmanabhan, N, Paegert, M, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Pan, K, Parejko, JK, Pâris, I, Park, C, Pattarakijwanich, P, Pellejero-Ibanez, M, Pepper, J, Percival, WJ, Pérez-Fournon, I, Pérez-Ra'Fols, I, Petitjean, P, Pieri, MM, Pinsonneault, MH, Mello, GFPD, Prada, F, Prakash, A, Price-Whelan, AM, Protopapas, P, Raddick, MJ, Rahman, M, Reid, BA, Rich, J, Rix, H-W, Robin, AC, Rockosi, CM, Rodrigues, TS, Rodríguez-Torres, S, Roe, NA, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Rossi, G, Ruan, JJ, Rubiño-Martín, JA, Rykoff, ES, Salazar-Albornoz, S, Salvato, M, Samushia, L, Sánchez, AG, Santiago, B, Sayres, C, Schiavon, RP, Schlegel, DJ, Schmidt, SJ, Schneider, DP, Schultheis, M, Schwope, AD, Scóccola, CG, Scott, C, Sellgren, K, Seo, H-J, Serenelli, A, Shane, N, Shen, Y, Shetrone, M, Shu, Y, Aguirre, VS, Sivarani, T, Skrutskie, MF, Slosar, A, Smith, VV, Sobreira, F, Souto, D, Stassun, KG, Steinmetz, M, Stello, D, Strauss, MA, Streblyanska, A, Suzuki, N, Swanson, MEC, Tan, JC, Tayar, J, Terrien, RC, Thakar, AR, Thomas, D, Thomas, N, Thompson, BA, Tinker, JL, Tojeiro, R, Troup, NW, Vargas-Magaña, M, Vazquez, JA, Verde, L, Viel, M, Vogt, NP, Wake, DA, Wang, J, Weaver, BA, Weinberg, DH, Weiner, BJ, White, M, Wilson, JC, Wisniewski, JP, Wood-Vasey, WM, Ye'Che, C, York, DG, Zakamska, NL, Zamora, O, Zasowski, G, Zehavi, I, Zhao, G-B, Zheng, Z, Zhou, X, Zhou, Z, Zou, H & Zhu, G 2015, 'The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III', Astrophysical Journal Supplement. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12

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T1 - The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

AU - Alam, S.

AU - Albareti, F.D.

AU - Prieto, C.A.

AU - Anders, F.

AU - Anderson, S.F.

AU - Anderton, T.

AU - Andrews, B.H.

AU - Armengaud, E.

AU - Aubourg, É.

AU - Bailey, S.

AU - Basu, S.

AU - Bautista, J.E.

AU - Beaton, R.L.

AU - Beers, T.C.

AU - Bender, C.F.

AU - Berlind, A.A.

AU - Beutler, F.

AU - Bhardwaj, V.

AU - Bird, J.C.

AU - Bizyaev, D.

AU - Blake, C.H.

AU - Blanton, M.R.

AU - Blomqvist, M.

AU - Bochanski, J.J.

AU - Bolton, A.S.

AU - Bovy, J.

AU - Bradley, A.S.

AU - Brandt, W.N.

AU - Brauer, D.E.

AU - Brinkmann, J.

AU - Brown, P.J.

AU - Brownstein, J.R.

AU - Burden, A.

AU - Burtin, E.

AU - Busca, N.G.

AU - Cai, Z.

AU - Capozzi, D.

AU - Rosell, A.C.

AU - Carr, M.A.

AU - Carrera, R.

AU - Chambers, K.C.

AU - Chaplin, W.J.

AU - Chen, Y.-C.

AU - Chiappini, C.

AU - Chojnowski, S.D.

AU - Chuang, C.-H.

AU - Clerc, N.

AU - Comparat, J.

AU - Covey, K.

AU - Croft, R.A.C.

AU - Cuesta, A.J.

AU - Cunha, K.

AU - Costa, L.N.D.

AU - Rio, N.D.

AU - Davenport, J.R.A.

AU - Dawson, K.S.

AU - Lee, N.D.

AU - Delubac, T.

AU - Deshpande, R.

AU - Dhital, S.

AU - Dutra-Ferreira, L.

AU - Dwelly, T.

AU - Ealet, A.

AU - Ebelke, G.L.

AU - Edmondson, E.M.

AU - Eisenstein, D.J.

AU - Ellsworth, T.

AU - Elsworth, Y.

AU - Epstein, C.R.

AU - Eracleous, M.

AU - Escoffier, S.

AU - Esposito, M.

AU - Evans, M.L.

AU - Fan, X.

AU - Fernández-Alvar, E.

AU - Feuillet, D.

AU - Ak, N.F.

AU - Finley, H.

AU - Finoguenov, A.

AU - Flaherty, K.

AU - Fleming, S.W.

AU - Font-Ribera, A.

AU - Foster, J.

AU - Frinchaboy, P.M.

AU - Galbraith-Frew, J.G.

AU - García, R.A.

AU - García-Hernández, D.A.

AU - Pérez, A.E.G.

AU - Gaulme, P.

AU - Ge, J.

AU - Génova-Santos, R.

AU - Georgakakis, A.

AU - Ghezzi, L.

AU - Gillespie, B.A.

AU - Girardi, L.

AU - Goddard, D.

AU - Gontcho, S.G.A.

AU - Hernández, J.I.G.

AU - Grebel, E.K.

AU - Green, P.J.

AU - Grieb, J.N.

AU - Grieves, N.

AU - Gunn, J.E.

AU - Guo, H.

AU - Harding, P.

AU - Hasselquist, S.

AU - Hawley, S.L.

AU - Hayden, M.

AU - Hearty, F.R.

AU - Hekker, S.

AU - Ho, S.

AU - Hogg, D.W.

AU - Holley-Bockelmann, K.

AU - Holtzman, J.A.

AU - Honscheid, K.

AU - Huber, D.

AU - Huehnerhoff, J.

AU - Ivans, I.I.

AU - Jiang, L.

AU - Johnson, J.A.

AU - Kinemuchi, K.

AU - Kirkby, D.

AU - Kitaura, F.

AU - Klaene, M.A.

AU - Knapp, G.R.

AU - Kneib, J.-P.

AU - Koenig, X.P.

AU - Lam, C.R.

AU - Lan, T.-W.

AU - Lang, D.

AU - Laurent, P.

AU - Goff, J.-M.L.

AU - Leauthaud, A.

AU - Lee, K.-G.

AU - Lee, Y.S.

AU - Licquia, T.C.

AU - Liu, J.

AU - Long, D.C.

AU - López-Corredoira, M.

AU - Lorenzo-Oliveira, D.

AU - Lucatello, S.

AU - Lundgren, B.

AU - Lupton, R.H.

AU - Iii, C.E.M.

AU - Mahadevan, S.

AU - Maia, M.A.G.

AU - Majewski, S.R.

AU - Malanushenko, E.

AU - Malanushenko, V.

AU - Manchado, A.

AU - Manera, M.

AU - Mao, Q.

AU - Maraston, C.

AU - Marchwinski, R.C.

AU - Margala, D.

AU - Martell, S.L.

AU - Martig, M.

AU - Masters, K.L.

AU - Mathur, S.

AU - McBride, C.K.

AU - McGehee, P.M.

AU - McGreer, I.D.

AU - McMahon, R.G.

AU - Ménard, B.

AU - Menzel, M.-L.

AU - Merloni, A.

AU - Mészáros, S.

AU - Miller, A.A.

AU - Miralda-Escudé, J.

AU - Miyatake, H.

AU - Montero-Dorta, A.D.

AU - More, S.

AU - Morganson, E.

AU - Morice-Atkinson, X.

AU - Morrison, H.L.

AU - Mosser, B.

AU - Muna, D.

AU - Myers, A.D.

AU - Nandra, K.

AU - Newman, J.A.

AU - Neyrinck, M.

AU - Nguyen, D.C.

AU - Nichol, R.C.

AU - Nidever, D.L.

AU - Noterdaeme, P.

AU - Nuza, S.E.

AU - O'Connell, J.E.

AU - O'Connell, R.W.

AU - O'Connell, R.

AU - Ogando, R.L.C.

AU - Olmstead, M.D.

AU - Oravetz, A.E.

AU - Oravetz, D.J.

AU - Osumi, K.

AU - Owen, R.

AU - Padgett, D.L.

AU - Padmanabhan, N.

AU - Paegert, M.

AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, N.

AU - Pan, K.

AU - Parejko, J.K.

AU - Pâris, I.

AU - Park, C.

AU - Pattarakijwanich, P.

AU - Pellejero-Ibanez, M.

AU - Pepper, J.

AU - Percival, W.J.

AU - Pérez-Fournon, I.

AU - Pérez-Ra'Fols, I.

AU - Petitjean, P.

AU - Pieri, M.M.

AU - Pinsonneault, M.H.

AU - Mello, G.F.P.D.

AU - Prada, F.

AU - Prakash, A.

AU - Price-Whelan, A.M.

AU - Protopapas, P.

AU - Raddick, M.J.

AU - Rahman, M.

AU - Reid, B.A.

AU - Rich, J.

AU - Rix, H.-W.

AU - Robin, A.C.

AU - Rockosi, C.M.

AU - Rodrigues, T.S.

AU - Rodríguez-Torres, S.

AU - Roe, N.A.

AU - Ross, A.J.

AU - Ross, N.P.

AU - Rossi, G.

AU - Ruan, J.J.

AU - Rubiño-Martín, J.A.

AU - Rykoff, E.S.

AU - Salazar-Albornoz, S.

AU - Salvato, M.

AU - Samushia, L.

AU - Sánchez, A.G.

AU - Santiago, B.

AU - Sayres, C.

AU - Schiavon, R.P.

AU - Schlegel, D.J.

AU - Schmidt, S.J.

AU - Schneider, D.P.

AU - Schultheis, M.

AU - Schwope, A.D.

AU - Scóccola, C.G.

AU - Scott, C.

AU - Sellgren, K.

AU - Seo, H.-J.

AU - Serenelli, A.

AU - Shane, N.

AU - Shen, Y.

AU - Shetrone, M.

AU - Shu, Y.

AU - Aguirre, V.S.

AU - Sivarani, T.

AU - Skrutskie, M.F.

AU - Slosar, A.

AU - Smith, V.V.

AU - Sobreira, F.

AU - Souto, D.

AU - Stassun, K.G.

AU - Steinmetz, M.

AU - Stello, D.

AU - Strauss, M.A.

AU - Streblyanska, A.

AU - Suzuki, N.

AU - Swanson, M.E.C.

AU - Tan, J.C.

AU - Tayar, J.

AU - Terrien, R.C.

AU - Thakar, A.R.

AU - Thomas, D.

AU - Thomas, N.

AU - Thompson, B.A.

AU - Tinker, J.L.

AU - Tojeiro, R.

AU - Troup, N.W.

AU - Vargas-Magaña, M.

AU - Vazquez, J.A.

AU - Verde, L.

AU - Viel, M.

AU - Vogt, N.P.

AU - Wake, D.A.

AU - Wang, J.

AU - Weaver, B.A.

AU - Weinberg, D.H.

AU - Weiner, B.J.

AU - White, M.

AU - Wilson, J.C.

AU - Wisniewski, J.P.

AU - Wood-Vasey, W.M.

AU - Ye'Che, C.

AU - York, D.G.

AU - Zakamska, N.L.

AU - Zamora, O.

AU - Zasowski, G.

AU - Zehavi, I.

AU - Zhao, G.-B.

AU - Zheng, Z.

AU - Zhou, X.

AU - Zhou, Z.

AU - Zou, H.

AU - Zhu, G.

PY - 2015/7/27

Y1 - 2015/7/27

N2 - The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11(DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12)adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previousdata releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocitymeasurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2)survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained overfive million astronomical spectra.

AB - The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11(DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12)adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previousdata releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocitymeasurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2)survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained overfive million astronomical spectra.

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