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The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is conducting the first all-sky low-resolution spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way's stellar halo. We describe the stellar parameter pipeline for the SDSS-V halo survey, which…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2026-04-07
Vedant Chandra , Phillip A. Cargile , Alexander P. Ji , Charlie Conroy , Hans-Walter Rix , Emily Cunningham , Bruno Dias , Chervin Laporte , William Cerny , Guilherme Limberg , Avrajit Bandyopadhyay , Ana Bonaca , Andrew R. Casey , John Donor , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Pramod Gupta , Keith Hawkins , Jennifer A. Johnson , Juna A. Kollmeier , Madeline Lucey , Ilija Medan , Szabolcs Meszaros , Sean Morrison , Jose Sanchez-Gallego , Andrew K. Saydjari , Conor Sayres , Kevin C. Schlaufman , Keivan G. Stassun , Jamie Tayar , Zachary Way
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. 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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. 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Data-driven models, which apply machine learning to infer physical properties from large quantities of data, have become increasingly important for extracting stellar properties from spectra. In general, these methods have been applied to…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2024-02-09
Logan Sizemore , Diego Llanes , Marina Kounkel , Brian Hutchinson , Keivan G. Stassun , Vedant Chandra
The fifth iteration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) is set to obtain optical and near-infrared spectra of $\sim$5 million stars of all ages and masses throughout the Milky Way. As a part of these efforts, APOGEE & BOSS Young Star…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2023-05-10
Marina Kounkel , Eleonora Zari , Kevin Covey , Andrew Tkachenko , Carlos Román Zúñiga , Keivan Stassun , Amelia M. Stutz , Guy Stringfellow , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Jesús Hernández , Karla Peña Ramírez , Amelia Bayo , Jinyoung Serena Kim , Lyra Cao , Scott J. Wolk , Juna Kollmeier , Ricardo López-Valdivia , Bárbara Rojas-Ayala
The goal of this paper is to describe the science verification of Milky Way Mapper (MWM) APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) data products published in Data Release 19 (DR19) of the fifth phase of the Sloan…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-10
Szabolcs Mészáros , Paula Jofré , Jennifer A. Johnson , Jonathan C. Bird , Jo Bovy , Andrew R. Casey , Julio Chaname , Katia Cunha , Nathan De Lee , Peter Frinchaboy , Guillaume Guiglion , Viola Hegedűs , Alex P. Ji , Juna A. Kollmeier , Melissa K. Ness , Jonah Otto , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Andrew Saydjari , Amaya Sinha , Ying-Yi Song , Guy S. Stringfellow , Keivan G. Stassun , Jamie Tayar , Andrew Tkachenko , Marica Valentini , Zachary Way , Jörg Weingrill
Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-03-17
Daniel J. Eisenstein , David H. Weinberg , Eric Agol , Hiroaki Aihara , Carlos Allende Prieto , Scott F. Anderson , James A. Arns , Eric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Eduardo Balbinot , Robert Barkhouser , Timothy C. Beers , Andreas A. Berlind , Steven J. Bickerton , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Casey T. Bosman , Jo Bovy , Howard J. Brewington , W. N. Brandt , Ben Breslauer , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Dan Burger , Nicolas G. Busca , Heather Campbell , Phillip A. Cargile , William C. Carithers , Joleen K. Carlberg , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Cristina Chiappini , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Marina Cortes , Rupert A. C. Croft , Luiz N. da Costa , Katia Cunha , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Gustavo F. Porto de Mello , Fernando de Simoni , Janice Dean , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Jacob M. Eiting , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Bruno Femenia Castella , Leticia Dutra Ferreira , Greg Fitzgerald , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Eric B. Ford , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Ana Elia Garcia Perez , B. Scott Gaudi , Jian Ge , Luan Ghezzi , Bruce A. Gillespie , G. Gilmore , Leo Girardi , J. Richard Gott , Andrew Gould , Eva K. Grebel , James E. Gunn , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Frederick R. Hearty , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Naohisa Inada , Inese I. Ivans , Linhua Jiang , Peng Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , Cathy Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , G. R. Knapp , C. S. Kochanek , Lars Koesterke , Juna A. Kollmeier , Richard G. Kron , Dustin Lang , James E. Lawler , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Brian L. Lee , Young Sun Lee , Jarron M. Leisenring , Yen-Ting Lin , Jian Liu , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Bo Ma , Zhibo Ma , Nicholas MacDonald , Claude Mack , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Steven R. Majewski , Martin Makler , Rachel Mandelbaum , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Paul Maseman , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Olga Mena Requejo , Brice Menard , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Heather L. Morrison , Fergal Mullally , Demitri Muna , Hitoshi Murayama , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Angelo Fausti Neto , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Robert W. O'Connell , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin Paegert , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Parul Pandey , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Paris , Paulo Pellegrini , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Stefanie Phleps , Christophe Pichon , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Beatriz H. F. Ramos , Celine Ryle , I. Neill Reid , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , George H. Rieke , Marcia J. Rieke , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Emmanuel Rollinde , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Bruno Rossetto , Ariel G. Sanchez , Basilio Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo Schiavon , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Kris Sellgren , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , John D. Silverman , Jennifer Simmerer , Audrey E. Simmons , Thirupathi Sivarani , M. F. Skrutskie , Anze Slosar , Stephen Smee , Verne V. Smith , Stephanie A. Snedden , Keivan G. Stassun , Oliver Steele , Matthias Steinmetz , Mark H. Stockett , Todd Stollberg , Michael A. Strauss , Masayuki Tanaka , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Benjamin M. Tofflemire , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , Mariana Vargas Magana , Licia Verde , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Xiaoke Wan , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Brian Yanny , Naoki Yasuda , Christophe Yeche , Donald G. York , Erick Young , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Bo Zhao
Automated techniques have been developed to automate the process of classification of objects or their analysis. The large datasets provided by upcoming spectroscopic surveys with dedicated telescopes urges scientists to use these automated…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the sky with multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) at telescopes in…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-07-10
Juna A. Kollmeier , Hans-Walter Rix , Conny Aerts , James Aird , Pablo Vera Alfaro , Andrés Almeida , Scott F. Anderson , Óscar Jiménez Arranz , Stefan M. Arseneau , Roberto Assef , Shir Aviram , Catarina Aydar , Carles Badenes , Avrajit Bandyopadhyay , Kat Barger , Robert H. Barkhouser , Franz E. Bauer , Chad Bender , Felipe Besser , Binod Bhattarai , Pavaman Bilgi , Jonathan Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , John Bochanski , Jo Bovy , Christopher Brandon , William Nielsen Brandt , Joel R. Brownstein , Johannes Buchner , Joseph N. Burchett , Joleen Carlberg , Andrew R. Casey , Lesly Castaneda-Carlos , Priyanka Chakraborty , Julio Chanamé , Vedant Chandra , Brian Cherinka , Igor Chilingarian , Johan Comparat , Maren Cosens , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Nicole R. Crumpler , Katia Cunha , Tim Cunningham , Xinyu Dai , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Megan C. Davis , Nathan De Lee , Niall Deacon , José Eduardo Méndez Delgado , Sebastian Demasi , Mariia Demianenko , Mark Derwent , Elena D'Onghia , Francesco Di Mille , Bruno Dias , John Donor , Niv Drory , Tom Dwelly , Oleg Egorov , Evgeniya Egorova , Kareem El-Badry , Mike Engelman , Mike Eracleous , Xiaohui Fan , Emily Farr , Logan Fries , Peter Frinchaboy , Cynthia S. Froning , Boris T. Gänsicke , Pablo García , Joseph Gelfand , Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , Simon Glover , Katie Grabowski , Eva K. Grebel , Paul J Green , Catherine Grier , Pramod Gupta , Aidan C. Gray , Maximilian Häberle , Patrick B. Hall , Randolph P. Hammond , Keith Hawkins , Albert C. Harding , Viola Hegedűs , Tom Herbst , J. J. Hermes , Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo , Thomas Hilder , David W Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Danny Horta , Yang Huang , Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Hector Javier Ibarra-Medel , Julie Imig , Keith Inight , Arghajit Jana , Alexander P. Ji , Paula Jofre , Matt Johns , Jennifer Johnson , James W. Johnson , Evelyn J. Johnston , Amy M Jones , Ivan Katkov , Anton M. Koekemoer , Marina Kounkel , Kathryn Kreckel , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Mirko Krumpe , Nimisha Kumari , Thomas Kupfer , Ivan Lacerna , Chervin Laporte , Sebastien Lepine , Jing Li , Xin Liu , Sarah Loebman , Knox Long , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Yuxi Lu , Steven Raymond Majewski , Dan Maoz , Kevin A. McKinnon , Ilija Medan , Andrea Merloni , Dante Minniti , Sean Morrison , Natalie Myers , Szabolcs Mészáros , Kirpal Nandra , Prasanta K. Nayak , Melissa K Ness , David L. Nidever , Thomas O'Brien , Micah Oeur , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Jonah Otto , Gautham Adamane Pallathadka , Povilas Palunas , Kaike Pan , Daniel Pappalardo , Rakesh Pandey , Castalia Alenka Negrete Peñaloza , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Richard W. Pogge , Manuchehr Taghizadeh Popp , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Nadiia Pulatova , Dan Qiu , Solange Ramirez , Amy Rankine , Claudio Ricci , Jessie C. Runnoe , Sebastian Sanchez , Mara Salvato , Natascha Sattler , Andrew K. Saydjari , Conor Sayres , Kevin C. Schlaufman , Donald P. Schneider , Matthias R. Schreiber , Axel Schwope , Javier Serna , Yue Shen , Cristóbal Sifón , Amrita Singh , Amaya Sinha , Stephen Smee , Ying-Yi Song , Diogo Souto , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Alexander Stone-Martinez , Guy Stringfellow , Amelia Stutz , José , Sá , nchez-Gallego , Jonathan C. Tan , Jamie Tayar , Riley Thai , Ani Thakar , Yuan-Sen Ting , Andrew Tkachenko , Gagik Tovmasian , Benny Trakhtenbrot , José G. Fernández-Trincado , Nicholas Troup , Jonathan Trump , Sarah Tuttle , Roeland P. van der Marel , Sandro Villanova , Jaime Villaseñor , Stefanie Wachter , Zachary Way , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David Weinberg , Adam Wheeler , John Wilson , Alessa I. Wiggins , Tony Wong , Qiaoya Wu , Dominika Wylezalek , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Qian Yang , Nadia Zakamska , Eleonora Zari , Gail Zasowski , Grisha Zeltyn , Catherine Zucker , Carlos G. Román Zúñiga , Rodolfo de J. Zermeño
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is collecting photometry and intermediate resolution spectra for ~ 10**5 stars in the thick-disk and stellar halo of the Milky Way. This massive dataset can be used to infer the properties of the stars…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , Y. Li , H. J. Newberg , R. Wilhelm , B. Yanny
Aims. This paper introduces LRPayne, a novel algorithm designed for the efficient determination of stellar parameters and chemical abundances from low-resolution optical spectra, with a primary focus on data from large-scale galactic…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2026-02-18
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We present The Payne, a general method for the precise and simultaneous determination of numerous stellar labels from observed spectra, based on fitting physical spectral models. The Payne combines a number of important methodological…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2019-07-17
Yuan-Sen Ting , Charlie Conroy , Hans-Walter Rix , Phillip Cargile
We present a novel approach to deriving stellar labels for stars observed in MUSE fields making use of data-driven machine learning methods. Taking advantage of the comparable spectral properties (resolution, wavelength coverage) of the…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2022-05-27
Zixian Wang , Michael R. Hayden , Sanjib Sharma , Maosheng Xiang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Boquan Chen
Although originally conceived as primarily an extragalactic survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), and its extensions SDSS-II and SDSS-III, continue to have a major impact on our understanding of the formation and evolution of our…
With the large amounts of spectroscopic data available today and the very large surveys to come (e.g. Gaia), the need for automatic data analysis software is unquestionable. We thus developed an automatic spectra analysis program for the…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2015-06-03
Helene Posbic , David Katz , Elisabetta Caffau , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Luca Sbordone , Ana Gomez , Frederic Arenou
SDSS-V will obtain 100,000s of medium-resolution, optical spectra of M dwarfs with the BOSS instrument. M dwarfs have complex atmospheres, and their spectra contain many wide and dense, overlapping molecular features, so determining…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
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Ilija Medan , Zachary Way , Bárbara Rojas-Ayala , Guy S. Stringfellow , Conor Sayres , Keivan G. Stassun , Andrew R. Casey , Sébastien Lépine , Emma Galligan , Diogo Souto , Andrew K. Saydjari
A fundamental challenge for wide-field imaging surveys is obtaining follow-up spectroscopic observations: there are > $10^9$ photometrically cataloged sources, yet modern spectroscopic surveys are limited to ~few x $10^6$ targets. As we…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-23
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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),…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-11-11
David L. Nidever , Jon A. Holtzman , Carlos Allende Prieto , Stephane Beland , Chad Bender , Dmitry Bizyaev , Adam Burton , Rohit Desphande , Scott W. Fleming , Ana Elia Garcia Perez , Fred R. Hearty , Steven R. Majewski , Szabolcs Meszaros , Demitri Muna , Duy Nguyen , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Matthew Shetrone , Michael F. Skrutskie , Jennifer S. Sobeck , John C. Wilson
We present an algorithmic method for efficiently planning a long-term, large-scale multi-object spectroscopy program. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Focal Plane System performs multi-object spectroscopy using 500 robotic…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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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
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With the imminent data releases from next-generation spectroscopic surveys, hundreds of thousands of white dwarf spectra are expected to become available within the next few years, increasing the data volume by an order of magnitude. This…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
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