How do I use the MaNGA Catalog drpall File?

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The drpall file

The drpall-v2_1_2 file is a summary file from the MaNGA Data Reduction Pipeline (DRP). This table contains target and observational information (e.g., number of exposures, IFU size, identifiers), as well as galaxies properties taken from the NSA catalog, such as redshift and photometry for all the galaxies in the current data release. The datamodel for the drpall file can be found here.

Accessing the drpall file with Python

Astropy primer for working with table data

import numpy as np
from astropy.io import fits

drpall = fits.open('drpall-v2_1_2.fits')
tbdata = drpall[1].data

# Print column names
tbdata.columns.names

Find the redshift of a galaxy:

ind = np.where(tbdata['mangaid'] == '12-193481')
print('redshift =', tbdata['nsa_z'][ind][0])

Accessing the drpall file with IDL

The drpall file can be read in using for example MRDFITS. This will put the data into an IDL structure.

t=mrdfits('drpall-v2_1_2.fits',1,hdr)

; Print column names
help,t,/str

Find the redshift of a galaxy:

ind = where(t.mangaid eq '12-193481')
print,'redshift =', t[ind].nsa_z

Accessing the drpall file with CAS

The drpAll file exists as a table in CAS. You can query the drpall table under the Query tab in CASjobs. For example, to find all galaxies with redshift > 0.05 and stellar mass <1e10: 

SELECT  
mangaid, objra, objdec, nsa_z, nsa_sersic_mass 	
FROM dbo.mangaDrpAll	
where nsa_z > 0.05 and nsa_sersic_mass < 1e10