The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Early Data Release
J. T. Allen, S. M. Croom, I. S. Konstantopoulos, J. J. Bryant, R., Sharp, G. N. Cecil, L. M. R. Fogarty, C. Foster, A. W. Green, I.-T. Ho, M. S., Owers, A. L. Schaefer, N. Scott, A. E. Bauer, I. Baldry, L. A. Barnes, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J. V. Bloom, S. Brough, M. Colless

TL;DR
The paper introduces the early data release of the SAMI Galaxy Survey, providing calibrated datacubes for 107 galaxies and evaluating the data reduction pipeline's performance.
Contribution
It publicly releases the first set of data from the SAMI Galaxy Survey and assesses the quality and accuracy of the data reduction pipeline.
Findings
High-quality calibrated datacubes with low residual sky subtraction
Accurate flux calibration with 4.1% systematic uncertainty
Precise atmospheric dispersion correction within 0.09 arcseconds
Abstract
We present the Early Data Release of the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. The SAMI Galaxy Survey is an ongoing integral field spectroscopic survey of ~3400 low-redshift (z<0.12) galaxies, covering galaxies in the field and in groups within the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey regions, and a sample of galaxies in clusters. In the Early Data Release, we publicly release the fully calibrated datacubes for a representative selection of 107 galaxies drawn from the GAMA regions, along with information about these galaxies from the GAMA catalogues. All datacubes for the Early Data Release galaxies can be downloaded individually or as a set from the SAMI Galaxy Survey website. In this paper we also assess the quality of the pipeline used to reduce the SAMI data, giving metrics that quantify its performance at all stages in processing the raw…
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