@article {2015ApJS..219...12A, title = {The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III}, journal = {\apjs}, volume = {219}, number = {1}, year = {2015}, month = {jul}, pages = {12}, keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, atlases, catalogs, surveys}, doi = {10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/12}, author = {Alam, Shadab and Albareti, Franco D. and Allende Prieto, Carlos and Anders, F. and Anderson, Scott F. and Anderton, Timothy and Andrews, Brett H. and Armengaud, Eric and Aubourg, {\'E}ric and Bailey, Stephen and Basu, Sarbani and Bautista, Julian E. and Beaton, Rachael L. and Beers, Timothy C. and Bender, Chad F. and Berlind, Andreas A. and Beutler, Florian and Bhardwaj, Vaishali and Bird, Jonathan C. and Bizyaev, Dmitry and Blake, Cullen H. and Blanton, Michael R. and Blomqvist, Michael and Bochanski, John J. and Bolton, Adam S. and Bovy, Jo and Shelden Bradley, A. and Brandt, W. 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