THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT

Journal Article · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/17· OSTI ID:22340294

Ahn, Christopher P.; Anderton, Timothy ^[1]; Alexandroff, Rachael ^[2]; Allende Prieto, Carlos ^[3]; Anders, Friedrich ^[4]; Anderson, Scott F.; Bhardwaj, Vaishali ^[5]; Andrews, Brett H. ^[6]; Aubourg, Éric; Bautista, Julian E. ^[7]; Bailey, Stephen; Beutler, Florian ^[8]; Bastien, Fabienne A.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bird, Jonathan C. ^[9]; Beers, Timothy C. ^[10]; Beifiori, Alessandra ^[11]; Bender, Chad F. ^[12]; Bizyaev, Dmitry ^[13]; Blake, Cullen H. ^[14] ; others, and

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (United States)
2. Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
3. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), C/Vía Láctea, s/n, E-38200, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain)
4. Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam (Germany)
5. Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195 (United States)
6. Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
7. APC, University of Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/IRFU, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris (France)
8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station 1807, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)
10. National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719 (United States)
11. Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstraße, D-85748 Garching (Germany)
12. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 525 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
13. Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349 (United States)
14. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 219 S. 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the Tenth Public Data Release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R ∼ 22,500 300 fiber spectrograph covering 1.514-1.696 μm. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included. DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the Ninth Data Release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra, 182,009 quasar spectra, and 159,327 stellar spectra selected over 6373.2 deg{sup 2}.

• OSTI ID: 22340294
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 211, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0067-0049
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
ABUNDANCE
BARYON SPECTROSCOPY
DATA ANALYSIS
GALACTIC EVOLUTION
GRAVITATION
METALLICITY
MILKY WAY
QUASARS
RADIAL VELOCITY
RED GIANT STARS
SKY