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The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-05-12 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the Milky Way. With this third data release of the Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey, we publish 678 423 spectra for 588 571 mostly nearby stars (81.2% of stars are within <2 kpc), observed with the HERMES spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This release (hereafter GALAH+ DR3) includes all observations from GALAH Phase 1 (bright, main, and faint survey, 70%), K2-HERMES (17%), TESS-HERMES (5%), and a subset of ancillary observations (8%) including the bulge and >75 stellar clusters. We derive stellar parameters TeffT_\text{eff}, logg\log g, [Fe/H], vmicv_\text{mic}, vbroadv_\text{broad} & vradv_\text{rad} using our modified version of the spectrum synthesis code Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME) and 1D MARCS model atmospheres. We break spectroscopic degeneracies in our spectrum analysis with astrometry from GaiaGaia DR2 and photometry from 2MASS. We report abundance ratios [X/Fe] for 30 different elements (11 of which are based on non-LTE computations) covering five nucleosynthetic pathways. We describe validations for accuracy and precision, flagging of peculiar stars/measurements and recommendations for using our results. Our catalogue comprises 65% dwarfs, 34% giants, and 1% other/unclassified stars. Based on unflagged chemical composition and age, we find 62% young low-α\alpha, 9% young high-α\alpha, 27% old high-α\alpha, and 2% stars with [Fe/H]1\mathrm{[Fe/H]} \leq -1. Based on kinematics, 4% are halo stars. Several Value-Added-Catalogues, including stellar ages and dynamics, updated after GaiaGaia eDR3, accompany this release and allow chrono-chemodynamic analyses, as we showcase.

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@article{arxiv.2011.02505,
  title  = {The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release},
  author = {Sven Buder and Sanjib Sharma and Janez Kos and Anish M. Amarsi and Thomas Nordlander and Karin Lind and Sarah L. Martell and Martin Asplund and Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Andrew R. Casey and Gayandhi M. De Silva and Valentina D'Orazi and Ken C. Freeman and Michael R. Hayden and Geraint F. Lewis and Jane Lin and Katharine J. Schlesinger and Jeffrey D. Simpson and Dennis Stello and Daniel B. Zucker and Tomaz Zwitter and Kevin L. Beeson and Tobias Buck and Luca Casagrande and Jake T. Clark and Klemen Cotar and Gary S. Da Costa and Richard de Grijs and Diane Feuillet and Jonathan Horner and Prajwal R. Kafle and Shourya Khanna and Chiaki Kobayashi and Fan Liu and Benjamin T. Montet and Govind Nandakumar and David M. Nataf and Melissa K. Ness and Lorenzo Spina and Thor Tepper-Garcia and Yuan-Sen Ting and Gregor Traven and Rok Vogrincic and Robert A. Wittenmyer and Rosemary F. G. Wyse and Marusa Zerjal and the GALAH collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02505},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

48 pages, 27 figures, 5 pages appendix, accepted for publication in MNRAS, comments welcome, GALAH+ DR3 can be found at https://docs.datacentral.org.au/galah/dr3/overview/, Catalogs can be downloaded from https://cloud.datacentral.org.au/teamdata/GALAH/public/GALAH_DR3/

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