Authors
G Zasowski, Jennifer A Johnson, PM Frinchaboy, Steven Raymond Majewski, DL Nidever, HJ Rocha Pinto, L Girardi, B Andrews, Stephen Drew Chojnowski, KM Cudworth, K Jackson, Jeffrey Munn, MF Skrutskie, Rachael Lynn Beaton, Cullen H Blake, Kevin Covey, Rohit Deshpande, Courtney Epstein, Damian Fabbian, SW Fleming, DA Garcia Hernandez, A Herrero, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sz Meszaros, Mathias Schultheis, K Sellgren, R Terrien, J Van Saders, C Allende Prieto, D Bizyaev, Adam Burton, Katia Cunha, LN Da Costa, Sten Hasselquist, F Hearty, J Holtzman, AE García Pérez, Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia, Robert West O'Connell, C O'Donnell, M Pinsonneault, Basilio Xavier Santiago, Ricardo P Schiavon, M Shetrone, V Smith, JC Wilson
Publication date
2013/8/22
Journal
The Astronomical Journal
Volume
146
Issue
4
Pages
81
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a high-resolution infrared spectroscopic survey spanning all Galactic environments (ie, bulge, disk, and halo), with the principal goal of constraining dynamical and chemical evolution models of the Milky Way. APOGEE takes advantage of the reduced effects of extinction at infrared wavelengths to observe the inner Galaxy and bulge at an unprecedented level of detail. The survey's broad spatial and wavelength coverage enables users of APOGEE data to address numerous Galactic structure and stellar populations issues. In this paper we describe the APOGEE targeting scheme and document its various target classes to provide the necessary background and reference information to analyze samples of APOGEE data with awareness of the imposed selection criteria and resulting sample properties. APOGEE's primary sample consists of∼ …
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