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We developed a code that estimates distances to stars using measured spectroscopic and photometric quantities. We employ a Bayesian approach to build the probability distribution function over stellar evolutionary models given these data,…

Galactic interstellar extinction maps are powerful and necessary tools for Milky Way structure and stellar population analyses, particularly toward the heavily-reddened bulge and in the midplane. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining…

With contemporary infrared spectroscopic surveys like APOGEE, red-giant stars can be observed to distances and extinctions at which Gaia parallaxes are not highly informative. Yet the combination of effective temperature, surface gravity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 David W. Hogg , Anna-Christina Eilers , Hans-Walter Rix

The scarcity of high-fidelity extinction measurements remains a bottleneck in deriving accurate stellar properties from Gaia parallaxes. In this work, we aim to derive precision extinction estimates for APOGEE DR19 stars, establishing a new…

We derive distances and masses of stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Data Release 17 (DR17) using simple neural networks. Training data for distances comes from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Alexander Stone-Martinez , Jon A. Holtzman , Julie Imig , Christian Nitschelm , Keivan G. Stassun , Joel R. Brownstein

We present a sample of local red giant stars observed using the New Mexico State University 1 m telescope with the APOGEE spectrograph, for which we estimate stellar ages and the age distribution from the high-resolution spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Diane K Feuillet , Jo Bovy , Jon Holtzman , Leo Girardi , Nick MacDonald , Steven R Majewski , David L Nidever

Astrometric surveys provide the opportunity to measure the absolute magnitudes of large numbers of stars, but only if the individual line-of-sight extinctions are known. Unfortunately, extinction is highly degenerate with stellar effective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

Understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy requires accurate distances, ages and chemistry for large populations of field stars. Here we present several updates to our spectro-photometric distance code, that can now also be…

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, explores the stellar populations of the Milky Way using the Sloan 2.5-m telescope linked to a high resolution (R~22,500),…

Combining the precise parallaxes and optical photometry delivered by Gaia's second data release (Gaia DR2) with the photometric catalogues of PanSTARRS-1, 2MASS, and AllWISE, we derive Bayesian stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions…

We combine high-resolution spectroscopic data from APOGEE-2 Survey Data Release 16 (DR16) with broad-band photometric data from several sources, as well as parallaxes from {\it Gaia} Data Release 2 (DR2). Using the Bayesian…

The determination of reliable distances to Planetary Nebulae (PNe) is one of the major limitations in the study of this class of objects in the Galaxy. The availability of new photometric surveys such as IPHAS covering large portions of the…

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…

We present a three dimensional extinction map in $r$ band. The map has a spatial angular resolution, depending on latitude, between 3 -- 9\,arcmin and covers the entire XSTPS-GAC survey area of over 6,000\,$\rm deg^2$ for Galactic longitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. -Q Chen , X. -W. Liu , H. -B. Yuan , H. -H. Zhang , M. Schultheis , B. -W. Jiang , Y. Huang , M. -S. Xiang , H. -B. Zhao , J. -S. Yao , H. Lu

We present a new approach (MADE) that generates mass, age, and distance estimates of red giant stars from a combination of astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic data. The core of the approach is a Bayesian artificial neural network…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-29 Payel Das , Jason Sanders

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
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