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

Abstract

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}.

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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)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22340294
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 211; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0067-0049
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ABUNDANCE; BARYON SPECTROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; GRAVITATION; METALLICITY; MILKY WAY; QUASARS; RADIAL VELOCITY; RED GIANT STARS; SKY

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Ahn, Christopher P., Anderton, Timothy, Alexandroff, Rachael, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bautista, Julian E., Bailey, Stephen, Beutler, Florian, Bastien, Fabienne A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bird, Jonathan C., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., and others, and. THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/17.
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Ahn, Christopher P., Anderton, Timothy, Alexandroff, Rachael, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bautista, Julian E., Bailey, Stephen, Beutler, Florian, Bastien, Fabienne A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bird, Jonathan C., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., & others, and. THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/17
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Ahn, Christopher P., Anderton, Timothy, Alexandroff, Rachael, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bautista, Julian E., Bailey, Stephen, Beutler, Florian, Bastien, Fabienne A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bird, Jonathan C., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., and others, and. 2014. "THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/17.
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@article{osti_22340294,
title = {THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT},
author = {Ahn, Christopher P. and Anderton, Timothy and Alexandroff, Rachael and Allende Prieto, Carlos and Anders, Friedrich and Anderson, Scott F. and Bhardwaj, Vaishali and Andrews, Brett H. and Aubourg, Éric and Bautista, Julian E. and Bailey, Stephen and Beutler, Florian and Bastien, Fabienne A. and Berlind, Andreas A. and Bird, Jonathan C. and Beers, Timothy C. and Beifiori, Alessandra and Bender, Chad F. and Bizyaev, Dmitry and Blake, Cullen H. and others, and},
abstractNote = {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}.},
doi = {10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/17},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22340294}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series},
issn = {0067-0049},
number = 2,
volume = 211,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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