The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

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; Kátia Cunha; Courtney Epstein; Greg Fitzgerald; Ana E. García Pérez; Fred R. Hearty; Chuck Henderson; Jon A. Holtzman; Jennifer A. Johnson; Charles R. Lam; James E. Lawler; Paul Maseman; Szabolcs Mészáros; 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. García; D. Aníbal García-hernández; Bruce A. Gillespie; Léo Girardi; James E. Gunn; Sten Hasselquist; Michael R. Hayden; Saskia Hekker; Inese Ivans; Karen Kinemuchi; Mark Klaene; Suvrath Mahadevan; Savita Mathur; Benoît Mosser; Demitri Muna; Jeffrey A. Munn; Robert C. Nichol; Robert W. O’connell; John K. Parejko; 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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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

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, Kátia Cunha, Courtney Epstein, Greg Fitzgerald, Ana E. García Pérez, Fred R. Hearty, Chuck Henderson, Jon A. Holtzman, Jennifer A. Johnson, Charles R. LamJames E. Lawler, Paul Maseman, Szabolcs Mészáros, 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. García, D. Aníbal García-hernández, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, James E. Gunn, Sten Hasselquist, Michael R. Hayden, Saskia Hekker, Inese Ivans, Karen Kinemuchi, Mark Klaene, Suvrath Mahadevan, Savita Mathur, Benoît Mosser, Demitri Muna, Jeffrey A. Munn, Robert C. Nichol, Robert W. O’connell, John K. Parejko, 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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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 the Milky Way. After a three-year observing campaign on the Sloan 2.5 m Telescope, APOGEE has collected a half million high-resolution (R ~ 22,500), high signal-to-noise ratio (>100), infrared (1.51–1.70 μm) spectra for 146,000 stars, with time series information via repeat visits to most of these stars. This paper describes the motivations for the survey and its overall design—hardware, field placement, target selection, operations—and gives an overview of these aspects as well as the data reduction, analysis, and products. An index is also given to the complement of technical papers that describe various critical survey components in detail. Finally, we discuss the achieved survey performance and illustrate the variety of potential uses of the data products by way of a number of science demonstrations, which span from time series analysis of stellar spectral variations and radial velocity variations from stellar companions, to spatial maps of kinematics, metallicity, and abundance patterns across the Galaxy and as a function of age, to new views of the interstellar medium, the chemistry of star clusters, and the discovery of rare stellar species. As part of SDSS-III Data Release 12 and later releases, all of the APOGEE data products are publicly available.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	94
Journal	The Astronomical Journal
Volume	154
Issue number	3
Early online date	14 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa784d
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017

Keywords

galaxy : abundances
galaxy: evolution
galaxy: formation
galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
galaxy: stellar content
galaxy: structure
RCUK
STFC
AST-1109178
AST-1616636

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Majewski, S. R., Schiavon, R. P., Frinchaboy, P. M., Prieto, C. A., Barkhouser, R., Bizyaev, D., Blank, B., Brunner, S., Burton, A., Carrera, R., Chojnowski, S. D., Cunha, K., Epstein, C., Fitzgerald, G., Pérez, A. E. G., Hearty, F. R., Henderson, C., Holtzman, J. A., Johnson, J. A., ... Zamora, O. (2017). The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). The Astronomical Journal, 154(3), 94. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa784d

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