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Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

  • Authors: Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts, James Aird, Pablo Vera Alfaro, Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Stefan M. Arseneau, Roberto J. Assef, Shir Aviram, Catarina Aydar, Carles Badenes, Avrajit Bandyopadhyay, Kat Barger, Robert H. Barkhouser, Franz E. Bauer, Aida Behmard, Chad Bender, Felipe Besser, Binod Bhattarai, Pavaman Bilgi, Jonathan Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, John Bochanski, Jo Bovy, Christopher Brandon, William Nielsen Brandt, Joel R. Brownstein, Johannes Buchner, Joseph N. Burchett, Joleen Carlberg, Andrew R. Casey, Lesly Castaneda-Carlos, Priyanka Chakraborty, Julio Chanamé, Vedant Chandra, Brian Cherinka, Igor Chilingarian, Johan Comparat, Maren Cosens, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Nicole R. Crumpler, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, Katia Cunha, Tim Cunningham, Xinyu Dai, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson, Megan C. Davis, Nathan De Lee, Niall Deacon, José Eduardo Méndez Delgado, Sebastian Demasi, Mariia Demianenko, Mark Derwent, Elena D'Onghia, Francesco Di Mille, Bruno Dias, John Donor, Peter N. Dow, Niv Drory, Tom Dwelly, Oleg Egorov, Evgeniya Egorova, Kareem El-Badry, Mike Engelman, Mike Eracleous, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, Logan Fries, Peter Frinchaboy, Cynthia S. Froning, Boris T. Gänsicke, Pablo García, Joseph Gelfand, Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Simon Glover, Katie Grabowski, Eva K. Grebel, Paul J. Green, Catherine Grier, Pramod Gupta, Aidan C. Gray, Maximilian Häberle, Patrick B. Hall, Randolph P. Hammond, Keith Hawkins, Albert C. Harding, Viola Hegedűs, Tom Herbst, J. J. Hermes, Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo, Thomas Hilder, David W Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Danny Horta, Yang Huang, Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Hector Javier Ibarra-Medel, Julie Imig, Keith Inight, Arghajit Jana, Alexander P. Ji, Óscar Jiménez-Arranz, Paula Jofre, Matt Johns, Jennifer Johnson, James W. Johnson, Evelyn J. Johnston, Amy M Jones, Ivan Katkov, Gillian R. Knapp, Anton M. Koekemoer, Marina Kounkel, Kathryn Kreckel, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Mirko Krumpe, Nimisha Kumari, Thomas Kupfer, Ivan Lacerna, Chervin Laporte, Sebastien Lepine, Jing Li, Xin Liu, Sarah Loebman, Knox Long, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Yuxi Lu, Steven Raymond Majewski, Dan Maoz, Kevin A. McKinnon, Ilija Medan, Andrea Merloni, Dante Minniti, Sean Morrison, Natalie Myers, Szabolcs Mészáros, Kirpal Nandra, Prasanta K. Nayak, Melissa K. Ness, David L. Nidever, Thomas O'Brien, Micah Oeur, Audrey Oravetz, Daniel Oravetz, Jonah Otto, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Povilas Palunas, Kaike Pan, Daniel Pappalardo, Rakesh Pandey, Castalia Alenka Negrete Peñaloza, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Richard W. Pogge, Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Nadiia Pulatova, Dan Qiu, Solange Ramirez, Amy Rankine, Claudio Ricci, Jessie C. Runnoe, Sebastian Sanchez, Mara Salvato, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Natascha Sattler, Andrew K. Saydjari, Conor Sayres, Eva Schinnerer, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel Schwope, Javier Serna, Yue Shen, Cristóbal Sifón, Amrita Singh, Amaya Sinha, Stephen Smee, Ying-Yi Song, Diogo Souto, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Alexander Stone-Martinez, Guy Stringfellow, Amelia Stutz, José Sánchez-Gallego, Jonathan C. Tan, Jamie Tayar, Riley Thai, Ani Thakar, Yuan-Sen Ting, Andrew Tkachenko, Gagik Tovmassian, Benny Trakhtenbrot, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Nicholas Troup, Jonathan Trump, Sarah Tuttle, Roeland P. van der Marel, Sandro Villanova, Jaime Villaseñor, Stefanie Wachter, Zachary Way, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David Weinberg, Adam Wheeler, Alessa I. Wiggins, John Wilson, Aida Wofford, Tony Wong, Qiaoya Wu, Dominika Wylezalek, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Qian Yang, Jason Ybarra, Nadia Zakamska, Eleonora Zari, Gail Zasowski, Grisha Zeltyn, Catherine Zucker, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Rodolfo de J. Zermeño

Juna A. Kollmeier et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 13.

Resolving nebular ISM structures with LVM. Images show false-color optical (V-band) and narrowband ([O III], Hα, [S II]) imaging of the LMC revealing a wealth of nebular structures that are only apparent at the ∼10 pc resolution that LVM will achieve in the LMC/SMC and ∼parsec resolution in the MW. From left to right, the spatial resolution improves from 100 to 1.6 pc pixel−1. The inset region is shown in the corresponding bottom panels. Providing quantitative measurements of the qualitative change observed at ∼25 pc scales, when ionization fronts and networks of shocks appear and become resolved, will uniquely enable LVM to directly constrain the physics happening at this “energy injection scale” within the ISM. SDSS-V’s LVM program pushes beyond the ∼kiloparsec-scale optical IFU surveys (e.g., MaNGA; K. Bundy et al. 2015) and ∼100 pc scale local galaxy surveys (e.g., PHANGS; E. Emsellem et al. 2022), to uncover the smaller-scale physics regulating the star formation cycle.

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