Acknowledgments¶

Siena Galaxy Atlas¶

John Moustakas gratefully acknowledges funding support for this work from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics under Award Number DE-SC0020086.

Use of the SGA data products must cite the following papers:

Moustakas, J., Lang, D., et al. 2026, in preparation, “Siena Galaxy Atlas 2025”

Moustakas, J., Lang, D., et al. 2023, ApJS, 269, 3, “Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020”

In addition, users must include the Scientific Publication Acknowledgment for the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.

External Data and Tools¶

We gratefully acknowledge the following external data and tools, which made the Siena Galaxy Atlas possible.

NED

This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.

HyperLeda

We acknowledge use of the HyperLeda database (Makarov et al. 2014, A&A, 570, A13).

DESI

This research used data obtained with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI):

DESI Collaboration, et al. 2026, AJ, 171, 285, “Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument”

See the DESI acknowledgments page for full details.

SDSS

This research made use of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 17 (Abdurro’uf et al. 2022, ApJS, 259, 35). See sdss4.org for additional details.

Local Volume Database (LVD)

We made use of the Local Volume Database:

Pace, A. B. 2025, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8, 144859, “The Local Volume Database: A Library of the Observed Properties of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies and Star Clusters”

Feedback¶

We welcome questions and feedback from users, as well as requests for additional data products, through the ticket system at github.com/moustakas/SGA/issues.

All of the code used to select, build, and analyze the catalog is open source and publicly available: