Authors
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 Anibal Garcia-Hernandez, 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, AC 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
Publication date
2017/8/14
Journal
The Astronomical Journal
Volume
154
Issue
3
Pages
94
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
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 …
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