期刊
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
卷 154, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aa784d
关键词
Galaxy: abundances; Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure
资金
- National Science Foundation [AST-1109178, AST-1616636]
- Gemini Observatory
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [AYA-2011-27754]
- NASA [NNX12AE17G]
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Hungarian NKFI of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [K-119517]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1413269] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/P00556X/1, ST/F007159/1, ST/N000668/1, ST/M00077X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M000966/1, ST/P00556X/1, ST/F007159/1, ST/N000668/1, ST/M00077X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Villum Fonden [00010118] Funding Source: researchfish
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 similar to 22,500), high signal-to-noise ratio (>100), infrared (1.51-1.70 mu m) 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 achieved survey performance and illustrate the variety of potential uses of the data products by way of a number of science demonstrations, which span from time series analysis of stellar spectral variations and radial velocity variations from stellar companions, to spatial maps of kinematics, metallicity, and abundance patterns across the Galaxy and as a function of age, to new views of the interstellar medium, the chemistry of star clusters, and the discovery of rare stellar species. As part of SDSS-III Data Release 12 and later releases, all of the APOGEE data products are publicly available.
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