What can you do with 39 million LVM spectra?

What can you do with 39 million LVM spectra?

Massive stars ionize, heat and push the gas they formed from, in regions only a few parsecs across. The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) uses integral-field spectroscopy to map this ionized gas. Its resolution ranges from sub-parsec in nearby Galactic nebulae to about 10 pc in the Magellanic Clouds, and it has already collected more than 39 million spectra. I will introduce how LVM works, which emission-line diagnostics its 3600–9800 Å spectra cover, and how the data reduction pipeline turns raw frames into science-ready data products. I will then show recent LVM results and end with quick hacks on using LVM data open to the whole Chilean community.

Sebastián López
Coordinador de Coloquios
DAS/UChile  – slopez@das.uchile.cl