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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2017-09-06
Steven R. Majewski , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Carlos Allende Prieto , Robert Barkhouser , Dmitry Bizyaev , Basil Blank , Sophia Brunner , Adam Burton , Ricardo Carrera , S. Drew Chojnowski , Katia Cunha , Courtney Epstein , Greg Fitzgerald , Ana E. Garcia Perez , Fred R. Hearty , Chuck Henderson , Jon A. Holtzman , Jennifer A. Johnson , Charles R. Lam , James E. Lawler , Paul Maseman , Szabolcs Meszaros , Matthew Nelson , Duy Coung Nguyen , David L. Nidever , Marc Pinsonneault , Matthew Shetrone , Stephen Smee , Verne V. Smith , Todd Stolberg , Michael F. Skrutskie , Eric Walker , John C. Wilson , Gail Zasowski , Friedrich Anders , Sarbani Basu , Stephane Beland , Michael R. Blanton , Jo Bovy , Joel R. Brownstein , Joleen Carlberg , William Chaplin , Cristina Chiappini , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne Elsworth , Diane Feuillet , Scott W. Fleming , Jessica Galbraith-Frew , Rafael A. Garcia , D. Anibal Garcia-Hernandez , Bruce A. Gillespie , Leo Girardi , James E. Gunn , Sten Hasselquist , Michael R. Hayden , Saskia Hekker , Inese Ivans , Karen Kinemuchi , Mark Klaene , Suvrath Mahadevan , Savita Mathur , Benoit Mosser , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Robert C. Nichol , Robert W. O'Connell , A. C. Robin , Helio Rocha-Pinto , Matthias Schultheis , Aldo M. Serenelli , Neville Shane , Victor Silva Aguirre , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Benjamin Thompson , Nicholas W. Troup , David H. Weinberg , Olga Zamora
We describe the design and performance of the near-infrared (1.51--1.70 micron), fiber-fed, multi-object (300 fibers), high resolution (R = lambda/delta lambda ~ 22,500) spectrograph built for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-04-03
J. C. Wilson , F. R. Hearty , M. F. Skrutskie , S. R. Majewski , J. A. Holtzman , D. Eisenstein , J. Gunn , B. Blank , C. Henderson , S. Smee , M. Nelson , D. Nidever , J. Arns , R. Barkhouser , J. Barr , S. Beland , M. A. Bershady , M. R. Blanton , S. Brunner , A. Burton , L. Carey , M. Carr , J. P. Colque , J. Crane , G. J. Damke , J. W. Davidson , J. Dean , F. Di Mille , K. W. Don , G. Ebelke , M. Evans , G. Fitzgerald , B. Gillespie , M. Hall , A. Harding , P. Harding , R. Hammond , D. Hancock , C. Harrison , S. Hope , T. Horne , J. Karakla , C. Lam , F. Leger , N. MacDonald , P. Maseman , J. Matsunari , S. Melton , T. Mitcheltree , T. O'Brien , R. W. O'Connell , A. Patten , W. Richardson , G. Rieke , M. Rieke , A. Roman-Lopes , R. P. Schiavon , J. S. Sobeck , T. Stolberg , R. Stoll , M. Tembe , J. D. Trujillo , A. Uomoto , M. Vernieri , E. Walker , D. H. Weinberg , E. Young , B. Anthony-Brumfield , D. Bizyaev , B. Breslauer , N. De Lee , J. Downey , S. Halverson , J. Huehnerhoff , M. Klaene , E. Leon , D. Long , S. Mahadevan , E. Malanushenko , D. C. Nguyen , R. Owen , J. R. Sanchez-Gallego , C. Sayres , N. Shane , S. A. Shectman , M. Shetrone , D. Skinner , F. Stauffer , B. Zhao
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a high-resolution infrared spectroscopic survey spanning all Galactic environments (i.e., bulge, disk, and halo), with the principal goal of constraining dynamical and…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2015-06-16
G. Zasowski , Jennifer A. Johnson , P. M. Frinchaboy , S. R. Majewski , D. L. Nidever , H. J. Rocha Pinto , L. Girardi , B. Andrews , S. D. Chojnowski , K. M. Cudworth , K. Jackson , J. Munn , M. F. Skrutskie , R. L. Beaton , C. H. Blake , K. Covey , R. Deshpande , C. Epstein , D. Fabbian , S. W. Fleming , A. Garcia Hernandez , A. Herrero , S. Mahadevan , Sz. Meszaros , M. Schultheis , K. Sellgren , R. Terrien , J. van Saders , C. Allende Prieto , D. Bizyaev , A. Burton , K. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , S. Hasselquist , F. Hearty , J. Holtzman , A. E. Garcia Perez , M. A. G. Maia , R. W. O'Connell , C. O'Donnell , M. Pinsonneault , B. X. Santiago , R. P. Schiavon , M. Shetrone , V. Smith , J. C. Wilson
APOGEE is a large-scale, NIR, high-resolution (R~20,000) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars. It is one of the four experiments in SDSS-III. Because APOGEE will observe in the H band, it will be the first survey to pierce through…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-13
C. Allende Prieto , S. R. Majewski , R. Schiavon , K. Cunha , P. Frinchaboy , J. Holtzman , K. Johnston , M. Shetrone , M. Skrutskie , V. Smith , J. Wilson
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III's Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopic survey covering all of the major components of the Galaxy, including the dust-obscured…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2014-08-13
Jo Bovy , David L. Nidever , Hans-Walter Rix , Léo Girardi , Gail Zasowski , S. Drew Chojnowski , Jon Holtzman , Courtney Epstein , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Michael R. Hayden , Thaíse S. Rodrigues , Steven R. Majewski , Jennifer A. Johnson , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Dennis Stello , Carlos Allende Prieto , Brett Andrews , Sarbani Basu , Timothy C. Beers , Dmitry Bizyaev , Adam Burton , William J. Chaplin , Katia Cunha , Yvonne Elsworth , Rafael A. García , Domingo A. García-Herńandez , Ana E. García Pérez , Fred R. Hearty , Saskia Hekker , Thomas Kallinger , Karen Kinemuchi , Lars Koesterke , Szabolcs Mészáros , Benoît Mosser , Robert W. O'Connell , Daniel Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Annie C. Robin , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Aldo Serenelli , Matthew Shetrone , Victor Silva Aguirre , Audrey Simmons , Michael Skrutskie , Verne V. Smith , Keivan Stassun , David H. Weinberg , John C. Wilson , Olga Zamora
We are posting this 10-year-old white paper to support an upcoming survey description paper for the SDSS-III Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) led by PI Dr. Steven Majewski. The white paper presented here was a…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-04-01
Michael F. Skrutskie , John C. Wilson
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-16
Christopher P. Ahn , Rachael Alexandroff , Carlos Allende Prieto , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Timothy Anderton , Brett H. Andrews , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Fabienne A. Bastien , Julian E. Bautista , Timothy C. Beers , Alessandra Beifiori , Chad F. Bender , Andreas A. Berlind , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , Alaina Shelden Bradley , W. N. Brandt , Dorothée Brauer , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Joleen K. Carlberg , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Cristina Chiappini , S. Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Justin R. Crepp , Stefano Cristiani , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Katia Cunha , Luiz N. da Costa , Kyle S. Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Janice D. R. Dean , Timothée Delubac , Rohit Deshpande , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Courtney R. Epstein , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , D. Fabbian , Xiaohui Fan , Ginevra Favole , Bruno Femenía Castellá , Emma Fernández Alvar , Diane Feuillet , Nurten Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , J. G. Galbraith-Frew , D. A. García-Hernández , Ana E. García Pérez , Jian Ge , R. Génova-Santos , Bruce A. Gillespie , Léo Girardi , Jonay I. González Hernández , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Samuel Halverson , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne L. Hawley , Michael Hayden , Frederick R. Hearty , Artemio Herrero Davó , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Joseph Huehnerhoff , Inese I. Ivans , Kelly M. Jackson , Peng Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , David Kirkby , K. Kinemuchi , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Lars Koesterke , Ting-Wen Lan , Dustin Lang , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Young Sun Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Robert H. Lupton , Bo Ma , Claude E. Mack , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Steven R. Majewski , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , A. Manchado , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Sarah L. Martell , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Brice Ménard , Sz. Mészáros , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Hironao Miyatake , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Surhud More , Heather L. Morrison , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Adam D. Myers , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Julia E. O'Connell , Robert W. O'Connell , Ross O'Connell , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Pâris , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Hélio Dotto Perottoni , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , M. H. Pinsonneault , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Mubdi Rahman , Rafael Rebolo , Beth A. Reid , Jonathan C. Richards , Rogério Riffel , Annie C. Robin , H. J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Arpita Roy , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Ariel G. Sánchez , Basílio Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo P. Schiavon , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Kris Sellgren , Hee-Jong Seo , Yue Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , Audrey E. Simmons , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Verne V. Smith , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Flavia Sobreira , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Ryan C. Terrien , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Jan Vandenberg , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Matteo Viel , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Donald G. York , O. Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (SDSS-III/APOGEE) is a large-scale spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars and star clusters. The SDSS-III/APOGEE survey is designed to produce high-S/N,…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2019-08-14
Peter M Frinchaboy , Gail Zasowski , Kelly Jackson , Jennifer A. Johnson , Steven R. Majewski , Matthew Shetrone , Aaron Rocha
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has built the largest moderately high-resolution (R=22, 500) spectroscopic map of the stars across the Milky Way, and including dust-obscured areas. The APOGEE Stellar…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2016-06-01
Ana E. García Pérez , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jon A. Holtzman , Matthew Shetrone , Szabolcs Mészáros , Dmitry Bizyaev , Ricardo Carrera , Katia Cunha , D. A. García-Hernández , Jennifer A. Johnson , Steven R. Majewski , David L. Nidever , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Neville Shane , Verne V. Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Nicholas Troup , Olga Zamora , Jo Bovy , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Diane Feuillet , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Michael R. Hayden , Fred R. Hearty , Duy C. Nguyen , Robert W. O'Connell , Marc H. Pinsonneault , David H. Weinberg , John C. Wilson , Gail Zasowski
In addition to comprehensive surveys of the Milky Way bulge, disk, and halo, the Apache Point Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) project observed seven dwarf spheroidal satellites (dSphs) of the Milky Way: Carina, Sextans, Sculptor,…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2025-11-07
Matthew Shetrone , Rachael L. Beaton , Christian R. Hayes , Sten Hasselquist , Joshua D. Simon , Jon A. Holtzman , Katia Cunha , Steven R. Majewski , Jennifer Sobeck , Ricardo Schiavon , Thomas Masseron , Verne V. Smith , David L. Nidever
We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2017-07-07
Michael R. Blanton , Matthew A. Bershady , Bela Abolfathi , Franco D. Albareti , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Javier Alonso-García , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Brett Andrews , Erik Aquino-Ortíz , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernández , Eric Armengaud , Eric Aubourg , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Stephen Bailey , Kathleen A. Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Curtis Bartosz , Dominic Bates , Falk Baumgarten , Julian Bautista , Rachael Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Chad F. Bender , Andreas A. Berlind , Mariangela Bernardi , Florian Beutler , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Médéric Boquien , Jura Borissova , Remco van den Bosch , Jo Bovy , William N. Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Adam J. Burgasser , Etienne Burtin , Nicolás G. Busca , Michele Cappellari , Maria Leticia Delgado Carigi , Joleen K. Carlberg , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Ricardo Carrera , Brian Cherinka , Edmond Cheung , Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew , Cristina Chiappini , Peter Doohyun Choi , Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Haeun Chung , Rafael Fernando Cirolini , Nicolas Clerc , Roger E. Cohen , Johan Comparat , Luiz da Costa , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Rupert A. C. Croft , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez , Daniel Garrido Cuadra , Katia Cunha , Guillermo J. Damke , Jeremy Darling , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Nathan De Lee , Timothée Delubac , Francesco Di Mille , Aleks Diamond-Stanic , Mariana Cano-Díaz , John Donor , Juan José Downes , Niv Drory , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Christopher J. Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Jamie Dyer , Garrett Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Eric Emsellem , Mike Eracleous , Stephanie Escoffier , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Emma Fernández-Alvar , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane K. Feuillet , Alexis Finoguenov , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Alexander Fredrickson , Gordon Freischlad , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Lluís Galbany , R. Garcia-Dias , D. A. García-Hernández , Patrick Gaulme , Doug Geisler , Joseph D. Gelfand , Héctor Gil-Marín , Bruce A. Gillespie , Daniel Goddard , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul J. Green , Catherine J. Grier , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Alex Hagen , ChangHoon Hahn , Matthew Hall , Paul Harding , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne L. Hawley , Fred Hearty , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernández , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Parker H. Holzer , Joseph Huehnerhoff , Timothy A. Hutchinson , Ho Seong Hwang , Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Inese I. Ivans , KeShawn Ivory , Kelly Jackson , Trey W. Jensen , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jönsson , Eric Jullo , Vikrant Kamble , Karen Kinemuchi , David Kirkby , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Mark Klaene , Gillian R. Knapp , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Ivan Lacerna , Richard R. Lane , Dustin Lang , David R. Law , Daniel Lazarz , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Fu-Heng Liang , Cheng Li , Hongyu LI , Marcos Lima , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Sara Bertran de Lis , Chao Liu , Miguel Angel C. de Icaza Lizaola , Dan Long , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Nicholas K. MacDonald , Alice Deconto Machado , Chelsea L. MacLeod , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Roberto Maiolino , Steven R. Majewski , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Arturo Manchado , Shude Mao , Claudia Maraston , Rui Marques-Chaves , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Richard M. McDermid , Brianne McGrath , Ian D. McGreer , Nicolás Medina Peña , Matthew Melendez , Andrea Merloni , Michael R. Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andres Meza , Ivan Minchev , Dante Minniti , Takamitsu Miyaji , Surhud More , John Mulchaey , Francisco Müller-Sánchez , Demitri Muna , Ricardo R. Munoz , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Alenka Negrete , Melissa Ness , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Pierros Ntelis , Julia E. O'Connell , Ryan J. Oelkers , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Pedro Alonso Palicio , Kaike Pan , Taniya Parikh , Isabelle Pâris , Changbom Park , Alim Y. Patten , Sebastien Peirani , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc Pinsonneault , Alice Pisani , Radosław Poleski , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz , M. Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Hannah Richstein , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogério Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Constance M. Rockosi , Sergio Rodríguez-Torres , A. Roman-Lopes , Carlos Román-Zúñiga , Margarita Rosado , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Rossana Ruggeri , Eli S. Rykoff , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sánchez , David Sánchez Aguado , José R. Sánchez-Gallego , Felipe A. Santana , Basílio Xavier Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson da Silva Schimoia , Edward F. Schlafly , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , William J. Schuster , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Michael Shull , Joshua D. Simon , Danielle Skinner , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Verne V. Smith , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Flavia Sobreira , Garrett Somers , Diogo Souto , David V. Stark , Keivan Stassun , Fritz Stauffer , Matthias Steinmetz , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Alina Streblyanska , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suárez , Jing Sun , Nao Suzuki , Laszlo Szigeti , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Baitian Tang , Charling Tao , Jamie Tayar , Mita Tembe , Johanna Teske , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Sylvain de la Torre , Christy Tremonti , Nicholas W. Troup , Octavio Valenzuela , Inma Martinez Valpuesta , Jaime Vargas-González , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Sandro Villanova , M. Vivek , Nicole Vogt , David Wake , Rene Walterbos , Yuting Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David H. Weinberg , Kyle B. Westfall , David G. Whelan , Vivienne Wild , John Wilson , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Dominika Wylezalek , Ting Xiao , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Jason E. Ybarra , Christophe Yèche , Nadia Zakamska , Olga Zamora , Pauline Zarrouk , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zhi-Min Zhou , Guangtun B. Zhu , Manuela Zoccali , Hu Zou
The history of the Milky Way is encoded in the spatial distributions, kinematics, and chemical enrichment patterns of its resolved stellar populations. SEGUE-2 and APOGEE, two of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III (the Sloan Digital…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2009-02-23
Constance Rockosi , Timothy C. Beers , Steven Majewski , Ricardo Schiavon , Daniel Eisenstein , with input from the SDSS-III Collaboration
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey--III (SDSS--III) Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has obtained high resolution (R $\sim$ 22,500), high signal-to-noise ratio ($>$ 100) spectra in the H$-$band ($\sim$1.5$-$1.7…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-05-27
O. Zamora , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , C. Allende Prieto , R. Carrera , L. Koesterke , B. Edvardsson , F. Castelli , B. Plez , D. Bizyaev , K. Cunha , A. E. Garcia Perez , B. Gustafsson , J. A. Holtzman , J. E. Lawler , S. R. Majewski , A. Manchado , Sz. Meszaros , N. Shane , M. Shetrone , V. V. Smith , G. Zasowski
APOGEE-2 is a high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey observing roughly 300,000 stars across the entire sky. It is the successor to APOGEE and is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). APOGEE-2 is expanding upon…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2017-11-01
G. Zasowski , R. E. Cohen , S. D. Chojnowski , F. Santana , R. J. Oelkers , B. Andrews , R. L. Beaton , C. Bender , J. C. Bird , J. Bovy , J. K. Carlberg , K. Covey , K. Cunha , F. Dell'Agli , S. W. Fleming , P. M. Frinchaboy , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , P. Harding , J. Holtzman , J. A. Johnson , J. A. Kollmeier , S. R. Majewski , Sz. Meszaros , J. Munn , R. R. Munoz , M. K. Ness , D. L. Nidever , R. Poleski , C. Roman Zuniga , M. Shetrone , J. D. Simon , V. V. Smith , J. S. Sobeck , G. S. Stringfellow , L. Szigetiaros , J. Tayar , N. Troup
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) - one of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III programs -- is using near-infrared spectra of $\sim 100,000$ red giant branch star candidates to study the structure of the Milky…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-19
Stephen S. Eikenberry , S. Drew Chojnowski , John Wisniewski , Steven R. Majewski , Matthew Shetrone , David G. Whelan , Dmitry Bizyaev , H. Jacob Borish , James R. A. Davenport , Garrett Ebelke , Diane Feuillet , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Alan Garner , Fred Hearty , Jon Holtzman , Zhi-Yun Li , Sz. Meszaros , David L. Nidever , Donald P. Schneider , Michael Skrutskie , John C. Wilson , Gail Zasowski
Commissioning observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, have produced radial velocities (RVs) for ~4700 K/M-giant stars in the Milky Way bulge. These…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2015-06-05
David L. Nidever , Gail Zasowski , Steven R. Majewski , Jonathan Bird , Annie C. Robin , Inma Martinez-Valpuesta , Rachael L. Beaton , Ralph Schoenrich , Mathias Schultheis , John C. Wilson , Michael F. Skrutskie , Robert W. O'Connell , Matthew Shetrone , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jennifer A. Johnson , Benjamin Weiner , Ortwin Gerhard , Donald P. Schneider , Carlos Allende Prieto , Kris Sellgren , Dmitry Bizyaev , Howard Brewington , Jon Brinkmann , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Ana Elia Garcia Perez , Jon Holtzman , Fred R. Hearty , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Demitri Muna , Daniel Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden , Benjamin A. Weaver
We present the $H$-band spectral line lists adopted by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). The APOGEE line lists comprise astrophysical, theoretical, and laboratory sources from the literature, as well as…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-12-02
Matthew Shetrone , Dmitry Bizyaev , James Lawler , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jennifer A. Johnson , Verne Smith , Katia Cunha , Jon Holtzman , Ana Garcia Perez , Szabolcs Meszaros , Jennifer Sobeck , Olga Zamora , Anibal Garcia-Hernandez , Diogo Souto , Drew Chojnowski , Lars Koesterke , Steven Majewski , Gail Zasowski
Despite its importance for understanding the nature of early stellar generations and for constraining Galactic bulge formation models, at present little is known about the metal-poor stellar content of the central Milky Way. This is a…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-12
Ana E. García Pérez , Katia Cunha , Matthew Shetrone , Steven R. Majewski , Jennifer A. Johnson , Verne V. Smith , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jon Holtzman , David Nidever , Gail Zasowski , Carlos Allende Prieto , Timothy C. Beers , Dmitry Bizyaev , Garrett Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Léo Girardi , Fred R. Hearty , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Szabolcs Meszaros , Robert W. O'Connel , Daniel Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Annie C. Robin , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Michael F. Skrutskie , Audrey Simmonsand , John C. Wilson
The data volume generated by astronomical surveys is growing rapidly. Traditional analysis techniques in spectroscopy either demand intensive human interaction or are computationally expensive. In this scenario, machine learning, and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-05-09
Rafael Garcia-Dias , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jorge Sánchez Almeida , Ignacio Ordovás-Pascual
The SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a three year survey that is collecting 100,000 high-resolution spectra in the near-IR across multiple Galactic populations. To derive stellar parameters and…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-17
Sz. Mészáros , J. Holtzman , A. E. García Pérez , C. Allende Prieto , R. P. Schiavon , S. Basu , D. Bizyaev , W. J. Chaplin , S. D. Chojnowski , K. Cunha , Y. Elsworth , C. Epstein , P. M. Frinchaboy , R. A. García , F. R. Hearty , S. Hekker , J. A. Johnson , T. Kallinger , L. Koesterke , S. R. Majewski , S. L. Martell , D. Nidever , M. H. Pinsonneault , J. O'Connell , M. Shetrone , V. V. Smith , J. C. Wilson , G. Zasowski