4.6 Article

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Data and Analysis

Journal

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 156, Issue 3, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aad4f9

Keywords

methods: data analysis; stars: abundances; techniques: spectroscopic

Funding

  1. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  2. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
  3. Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
  4. Brazilian Participation Group
  5. Carnegie Institution for Science
  6. Carnegie Mellon University
  7. Chilean Participation Group
  8. French Participation Group
  9. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  10. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  11. Johns Hopkins University
  12. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo
  13. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  14. Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
  15. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg)
  16. Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching)
  17. Max-Planck-Institut fur Extra-terrestrische Physik (MPE)
  18. National Astronomical Observatories of China
  19. New Mexico State University
  20. New York University
  21. University of Notre Dame
  22. Observatorio Nacional/MCTI
  23. Ohio State University
  24. Pennsylvania State University
  25. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
  26. United Kingdom Participation Group
  27. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  28. University of Arizona
  29. University of Colorado Boulder
  30. University of Oxford
  31. University of Portsmouth
  32. University of Utah
  33. University of Virginia
  34. University of Washington
  35. University of Wisconsin
  36. Vanderbilt University
  37. Yale University
  38. National Science Foundation [AST-1109178]
  39. NSF [AST-1616636, AST-1211673]
  40. Premium Postdoctoral Research Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  41. Hungarian NKFI Grants of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [K-119517]
  42. Birgit and Hellmuth Hertz Foundation (via the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund)
  43. Crafoord Foundation
  44. Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmastare

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The data and analysis methodology used for the SDSS/APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14 are described, highlighting differences from the DR12 analysis presented in Holtzman et al. Some improvement in the handling of telluric absorption and persistence is demonstrated. The derivation and calibration of stellar parameters, chemical abundances, and respective uncertainties are described, along with the ranges over which calibration was performed. Some known issues with the public data related to the calibration of the effective temperatures (DR13), surface gravity (DR13 and DR14), and C and N abundances for dwarfs (DR13 and DR14) are highlighted. We discuss how results from a data-driven technique, The Cannon, are included in DR14 and compare those with results from the APOGEE Stellar Parameters and Chemical Abundances Pipeline. We describe how using The Cannon in a mode that restricts the abundance analysis of each element to regions of the spectrum with known features from that element leads to Cannon abundances can lead to significantly different results for some elements than when all regions of the spectrum are used to derive abundances.

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