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most citedBinary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 282 cited

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★ 3 cited

Multiplicity Statistics of Stars in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Comparison to the Milky Way

Victoria Bonidie, Travis Court, Christine Mazzola Daher +17

We use time-resolved spectra from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) to examine the distribution of radial velocity (RV) variations in 249 stars id…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

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

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.GA2021★ 99 cited

Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2N Survey

Rachael L. Beaton, Ryan J. Oelkers, Christian R. Hayes +57

APOGEE-2 is a dual-hemisphere, near-infrared (NIR), spectroscopic survey with the goal of producing a chemo-dynamical mapping of the Milky Way Galaxy. The targeting for APOGEE-2 is…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 12 cited

Geometry of the Draco C1 Symbiotic Binary

Hannah M. Lewis, Borja Anguiano, Keivan G. Stassun +14

Draco C1 is a known symbiotic binary star system composed of a carbon red giant and a hot, compact companion -- likely a white dwarf -- belonging to the Draco dwarf spheroidal gala…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 59 cited

The Close Binary Fraction as a Function of Stellar Parameters in APOGEE: A Strong Anti-Correlation With Abundances

Christine N. Mazzola, Carles Badenes, Maxwell Moe +20

We use observations from the APOGEE survey to explore the relationship between stellar parameters and multiplicity. We combine high-resolution repeat spectroscopy for 41,363 dwarf…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 128 cited

Close Binary Companions to APOGEE DR16 Stars: 20,000 Binary-star Systems Across the Color-Magnitude Diagram

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix +20

Many problems in contemporary astrophysics---from understanding the formation of black holes to untangling the chemical evolution of galaxies---rely on knowledge about binary stars…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 356 cited

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado, Romina Ahumada, Andres Almeida +230

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years o…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited

Orbital Decay in Binaries Containing Post-Main Sequence Stars

Meng Sun, Phil Arras, Nevin N. Weinberg +2

The orbital decay of binaries containing a primary sub-giant or red giant star and a stellar or substellar companion is investigated. The tide raised in the primary by the companio…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 281 cited

APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Data and Analysis

Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist, Matthew Shetrone +23

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 (2015). Some imp…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 11 cited

44 New & Known M Dwarf Multiples In The SDSS-III/APOGEE M Dwarf Ancillary Science Sample

Jacob Skinner, Kevin R. Covey, Chad F. Bender +28

Binary stars make up a significant portion of all stellar systems. Consequently, an understanding of the bulk properties of binary stars is necessary for a full picture of star for…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 3.7k cited

Binary companions of evolved stars in APOGEE DR14: Search method and catalog of ~5,000 companions

Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix +10

Multi-epoch radial velocity measurements of stars can be used to identify stellar, sub-stellar, and planetary-mass companions. Even a small number of observation epochs can be info…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 48 cited

Elemental Abundances of Kepler Objects of Interest in APOGEE. I. Two Distinct Orbital Period Regimes Inferred from Host Star Iron Abundances

Robert F. Wilson, Johanna Teske, Steven R. Majewski +13

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has observed 600 transiting exoplanets and exoplanet candidates from \textit{Kepler} (Kepler Objects of In…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 137 cited

The First APOKASC Catalog of Kepler Dwarf and Subgiant Stars

Aldo Serenelli, Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Huber +23

(Abridged) We present the first APOKASC catalog of spectroscopic and asteroseismic data for 415 dwarfs and subgiants. Asteroseismic data have been obtained by Kepler in short caden…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 141 cited

Stellar Multiplicity Meets Stellar Evolution And Metallicity: The APOGEE View

Carles Badenes, Christine Mazzola, Todd A. Thompson +21

We use the multi-epoch radial velocities acquired by the APOGEE survey to perform a large scale statistical study of stellar multiplicity for field stars in the Milky Way, spanning…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 293 cited

Target Selection for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 Survey

G. Zasowski, R. E. Cohen, S. D. Chojnowski +34

APOGEE-2 is a high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey observing roughly 300,000 stars across the entire sky. It is the successor to APOGEE and is part of the Sloan Digi…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 35 cited

IN-SYNC VI. Identification and Radial Velocity Extraction for 100+ Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binaries in the APOGEE/IN-SYNC Fields

M. A. Fernandez, Kevin R. Covey, Nathan De Lee +15

We present radial velocity measurements for 70 high confidence, and 34 potential binary systems in fields containing the Perseus Molecular Cloud, Pleiades, NGC 2264, and the Orion…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 29 cited

Timing the Evolution of the Galactic Disk with NGC 6791: An Open Cluster with Peculiar High- Chemistry as seen by APOGEE

Sean T. Linden, Matthew Pryal, Christian R. Hayes +19

We utilize elemental-abundance information for Galactic red giant stars in five open clusters (NGC 7789, NGC 6819, M67, NGC 188, and NGC 6791) from the Apache Point Observatory Gal…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 36 cited

Exploring the Brown Dwarf Desert: New Substellar Companions from the SDSS-III MARVELS Survey

Nolan Grieves, Jian Ge, Neil Thomas +27

Planet searches using the radial velocity technique show a paucity of companions to solar-type stars within ~5 AU in the mass range of ~10 - 80 M. This deficit, know…