The MaNGA Data Analysis Pipeline

The MaNGA data-analysis pipeline (MaNGA DAP) is the survey-led software package that has analyzed all galaxy data produced by the MaNGA data-reduction pipeline (MaNGA DRP). Its goal is to produce high-level, science-ready data products derived from MaNGA spectra. The products currently provided are:

• Spatially stacked spectra
• Stellar kinematics
• Nebular emission-line properties: fluxes, equivalent widths, and kinematics
• Spectral indices: absorption-line (e.g., H-delta) and bandhead/color (e.g., TiO, D4000) measurements

That is, the DAP currently focuses on "model-independent" properties. Higher-level, model-dependent properties, such as stellar-population parameters, are outside of the scope of the current pipeline.

See our full documentation at sdss-mangadap.readthedocs.io.

SDSS Data Release Versions

• SDSS-IV/MaNGA DR15 is based on version 2.2.1

• SDSS-IV/MaNGA DR17 is based on version 3.1.2. Note that the version of the code that produced the DR17 was version 3.1.0; version 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 only include documentation updates.

Citation

If you use the DAP software and/or its output products, please cite the following two papers:

• Overview: Westfall et al. (2019, AJ, 158, 231)
• Emission-line Modeling: Belfiore et al. (2019, AJ, 158, 160)

Additionally, if you use SDSS-IV/MaNGA data, please see:

• How to Cite SDSS
• SDSS Technical Publications

Installation

pip install sdss-mangadap

See https://sdss-mangadap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html