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astro-ph.SR2026

SDSS-IV MaStar: Determination of Stellar Parameters Using Bayesian Averaging

Yan-Ping Chen, Renbin Yan, Szabolcs Mészáros +12

We present the stellar parameters for 59,266 high-quality spectra of 24,130 unique stars from the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Galactic intermediate-mass stripped star with a Wolf-Rayet-like wind

Johanna Müller-Horn, Kareem El-Badry, Andreas A. C. Sander +17

Binary interaction in massive stars is expected to produce a large population of intermediate-mass (- M) envelope-stripped stars, yet such objects have remained elusi…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Probabilistic Framework for Population Studies of the Solar Neighborhood: Application to SDSS-V and Gaia

Ilija Medan, Keivan G. Stassun, Zachary Way +8

Studies of the Solar Neighborhood require spectroscopic follow-up of stars identified in astrometric surveys to fully characterize their physical properties. The SDSS-V Solar Neigh…

astro-ph.SR2026

BOSS-CLAM: Utilizing a Constrained Linear Absorption Model to Infer Stellar Parameters from BOSS Spectra

Ilija Medan, Andrew R. Casey, Alexander P. Ji +13

Large spectroscopic surveys require robust pipelines capable of inferring stellar parameters over a wide range of the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram from data of varying quality.…

astro-ph.SR2025

Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19

Dan Qiu, Jennifer A. Johnson, Chao Liu +15

We utilized the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), a data-driven model based on Support Vector Regression, to derive stellar parameters ([Fe/H], , and ) for SDSS-V…

astro-ph.SR2025

The Importance of Standardizing Spectra in the Era of Large Spectroscopic Surveys: A Case Study of M Dwarfs in SDSS-V

Ilija Medan, Zachary Way, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +8

SDSS-V will obtain 100,000s of medium-resolution, optical spectra of M dwarfs with the BOSS instrument. M dwarfs have complex atmospheres, and their spectra contain many wide and d…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud

Alexander P. Ji, Vedant Chandra, Selenna Mejias-Torres +28

The first stars formed out of pristine gas, causing them to be so massive that none are expected to have survived until today. If their direct descendants were sufficiently low-mas…

astro-ph.SR2025

Atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of young stars with APOGEE. I. Orion star-forming region

Ricardo López-Valdivia, Lucía Adame, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga +19

We derive atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances in young G-, K-, and M-type stars (temperatures between 6500 and 3100 K) using infrared APOGEE-2 spectra. Atmospheric param…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

SDSS-V Milky Way Mapper (MWM): ASPCAP Stellar Parameters and Abundances in SDSS-V Data Release 19

Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré, Jennifer A. Johnson +25

The goal of this paper is to describe the science verification of Milky Way Mapper (MWM) APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) data products published…

astro-ph.SR2024

Cataclysmic variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- V (2020-2023) identified using machine learning

Keith Inight, Boris T. Gänsicke, Axel Schwope +16

SDSS-V is carrying out a dedicated survey for white dwarfs, single and in binaries, and we report the analysis of the spectroscopy of 504 cataclysmic variables (CVs) and CV candida…

astro-ph.SR2024

Rotational Evolution of Classical T Tauri Stars: Models and Observations

Javier Serna, Giovanni Pinzón, Jesús Hernández +17

We developed a grid of stellar rotation models for low-mass and solar-type Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) (). These models incorporate the star-…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 23 cited

Nature vs. Nurture: Distinguishing Effects from Stellar Processing and Chemical Evolution on Carbon and Nitrogen in Red Giant Stars

John D. Roberts, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Jennifer A. Johnson +16

The surface [C/N] ratios of evolved giants are strongly affected by the first dredge-up (FDU) of nuclear-processed material from stellar cores. C and N also have distinct nucleosyn…

astro-ph.SR2024

Spectacular nucleosynthesis from early massive stars

Alexander P. Ji, Sanjana Curtis, Nicholas Storm +39

Stars formed with initial mass over 50 Msun are very rare today, but they are thought to be more common in the early universe. The fates of those early, metal-poor, massive stars a…

astro-ph.SR2024

ABYSS II: Identification of young stars in optical SDSS spectra and their properties

Serat Saad, Kaitlyn Lane, Marina Kounkel +9

We developed a tool that measures equivalent widths of various lines in low resolution optical spectra, and it was applied to stellar spectra obtained as part of SDSS-V and LAMOST…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 61 cited

X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. I. Project Description

Jorick S. Vink, A. Mehner, P. A. Crowther +78

Observations of individual massive stars, super-luminous supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational-wave events involving spectacular black-hole mergers, indicate that the low…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 19 cited

Stellar Characterization and Radius Inflation of Hyades M Dwarf Stars From the APOGEE Survey

Fábio Wanderley, Katia Cunha, Diogo Souto +23

We present a spectroscopic analysis of a sample of 48 M dwarf stars () from the Hyades open cluster using high-resolution H-band spectra from the…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

The APO-K2 Catalog. I. 7,673 Red Giants with Fundamental Stellar Parameters from APOGEE DR17 Spectroscopy and K2-GAP Asteroseismology

Jessica Schonhut-Stasik, Joel C. Zinn, Keivan G. Stassun +13

We present a catalog of fundamental stellar properties for 7,673 evolved stars, including stellar radii and masses, determined from the combination of spectroscopic observations fr…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Characterization of low-mass companions to objects of interest observed with APOGEE-N

Caleb I. Cañas, Chad F. Bender, Suvrath Mahadevan +12

We report the characterization of 28 low-mass () companions to objects of interest (KOIs), eight…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 39 cited

Comparative analysis of atmospheric parameters from high-resolution spectroscopic sky surveys: APOGEE, GALAH, Gaia-ESO

Viola Hegedűs, Szabolcs Mészáros, Paula Jofré +5

SDSS-IV APOGEE-2, GALAH and Gaia-ESO are high resolution, ground-based, multi-object spectroscopic surveys providing fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters and multiple element…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Pre-main Sequence Brackett Emitters in the APOGEE DR17 Catalog: Line Strengths and Physical Properties of Accretion Columns

Hunter Campbell, Elliott Khilfeh, Kevin R. Covey +21

Very young (t 10 Myrs) stars possess strong magnetic fields that channel ionized gas from the interiors of their circumstellar discs to the surface of the star. Upon imp…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 46 cited

Detailed Chemical Abundances for a Benchmark Sample of M Dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey

Diogo Souto, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith +16

Individual chemical abundances for fourteen elements (C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni) are derived for a sample of M-dwarfs using high-resolution near-infrar…

astro-ph.SR2021

Stellar multiplicity and stellar rotation: Insights from APOGEE

Christine Mazzola Daher, Carles Badenes, Jamie Tayar +18

We measure rotational broadening in spectra taken by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey to characterise the relationship between stellar mul…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 1 cited

Double-lined spectroscopic binaries in the APOGEE DR16 and DR17 data

Marina Kounkel, Kevin R. Covey, Keivan G. Stassun +25

APOGEE spectra offer 1 km s precision in the measurement of stellar radial velocities (RVs). This holds even when multiple stars are captured in the same spectrum,…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 158 cited

The APOGEE Data Release 16 Spectral Line List

Verne V. Smith, Dmitry Bizyaev, Katia Cunha +15

The updated H-band spectral line list (from λ15,000 - 17,000Å) adopted by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) for the SDSS IV Data Release 16 (DR16)…