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astro-ph.GA2025

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VIII. Galactic Chemical Gradient and Azimuthal Analysis from SDSS/MWM DR19

Jonah M. Otto, Peter M Frinchaboy, Natalie R. Myers +16

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey seeks to curate a large, comprehensive, uniform dataset of open clusters and member stars to constrain key Galactic…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VI. Galactic Chemical Gradient Analysis from APOGEE DR17

Natalie Myers, John Donor, Taylor Spoo +19

The goal of the Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is to constrain key Galactic dynamic and chemical evolution parameters by the construction and analysis…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: IX. Measuring the Effects of Stellar Diffusion in the Open Clusters NGC 752 and Ruprecht 147 using APOGEE

Diogo Souto, Taylor Spoo, Peter M. Frinchaboy +4

The study analyzes APOGEE spectroscopic data for the open clusters NGC 752 and Ruprecht 147 to detect elemental abundance differences between turnoff and cooler main‑sequence stars…

#open clusters#atomic diffusion#stellar abundances#spectroscopy
astro-ph.GA2023

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: VII. APOGEE DR17 [C/N]-Age Calibration

Taylor Spoo, Jamie Tayar, Peter M. Frinchaboy +11

Large scale surveys open the possibility to investigate Galactic evolution both chemically and kinematically, however, reliable stellar ages remain a major challenge. Detailed chem…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extending the [C/N]-Age Calibration: Using Globular Clusters to Explore Older and Metal-Poor Populations

Taylor Spoo, Katelyn Thomas, Ellie "Kaleo" Toguchi-Tani +8

In the coming years, detailed chemical abundances from large-scale high-resolution spectroscopic surveys will become available for vast numbers of stars across the Milky Way. Previ…

astro-ph.GA2022

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.SR2021

The Binary INformation from Open Clusters Using SEDs (BINOCS) Project: Reliable Photometric Mass Determinations of Binary Star Systems in Clusters

Benjamin Thompson, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Taylor Spoo +1

We introduce a new binary detection technique, Binary INformation from Open Clusters using SEDs (binocs), which we show is able to determine reliable stellar multiplicity and masse…

astro-ph.SR2024

APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Joel C. Zinn, Jamie Tayar +38

In the third APOKASC catalog, we present data for the complete sample of 15,808 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and Kepler asteroseismology. We used ten independ…