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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…
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…
Homogeneous Analysis of Globular Clusters from the APOGEE Survey with the BACCHUS Code III. Cen
Szabolcs Mészáros, Thomas Masseron, José G. Fernández-Trincado +18
We study the multiple populations of Cen by using the abundances of Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, and Ce from the high-resolution, high signal-to-noise (S/N70) spectra of…
APOGEE Data and Spectral Analysis from SDSS Data Release 16: Seven Years of Observations Including First Results from APOGEE-South
Henrik Jönsson, Jon A. Holtzman, Carlos Allende Prieto +20
The spectral analysis and data products in Data Release 16 (DR16; December 2019) from the high-resolution near-infrared APOGEE-2/SDSS-IV survey are described. Compared to the previ…
The age-chemical abundance structure of the Galactic disc II: -dichotomy and thick disc formation
Jianhui Lian, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +9
We extend our previous work on the age-chemical abundance structure of the Galactic outer disc to the inner disc (4 < r < 8 kpc) based on the SDSS/APOGEE survey. Different from the…
Age-chemical abundance structure of the Galaxy I: Evidence for a late accretion event in the outer disc at z ~ 0.6
Jianhui Lian, Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston +6
We investigate the age-chemical abundance structure of the outer Galactic disc at a galactocentric distance of r > 10 kpc as recently revealed by the SDSS/APOGEE survey. Two sequen…
From the bulge to the outer disc: StarHorse stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in APOGEE DR16 and other spectroscopic surveys
A. B. A. Queiroz, F. Anders, C. Chiappini +27
We combine high-resolution spectroscopic data from APOGEE-2 Survey Data Release 16 (DR16) with broad-band photometric data from several sources, as well as parallaxes from {\it Gai…
Discovery of a nitrogen-enhanced mildly metal-poor binary system: Possible evidence for pollution from an extinct AGB Star
José G. Fernández-Trincado, Ronald Mennickent, Mauricio Cabezas +13
We report the serendipitous discovery of a nitrogen-rich, mildly metal-poor ([Fe/H]=-1.08) giant star in a single-lined spectroscopic binary system found in the SDSS-IV Apache Poin…
Identifying Sagittarius Stream Stars By Their APOGEE Chemical Abundance Signatures
Sten Hasselquist, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Jon A. Holtzman +17
The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey provides precise chemical abundances of 18 chemical elements for 176,000 red giant stars d…
APOGEE [C/N] Abundances Across the Galaxy: Migration and Infall from Red Giant Ages
Sten Hasselquist, Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone +14
We present [C/N]-[Fe/H] abundance trends from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey, Data Release 14 (DR14), for red giant branch stars…
Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Multi-element abundance ratios
David H. Weinberg, Jon A. Holtzman, Sten Hasselquist +25
We map the trends of elemental abundance ratios across the Galactic disk, spanning R = 3-15 kpc and midplane distance |Z|= 0-2 kpc, for 15 elements in a sample of 20,485 stars meas…
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping Survey: II. Precision Cluster Abundances for APOGEE using SDSS DR14
John Donor, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Katia Cunha +12
The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to produce a comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based spectroscopic dataset for hundreds of open clusters, and to…
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…
The metal-rich halo component extended in z: a characterization with Gaia DR2 and APOGEE
Emma Fernández-Alvar, J. G. Fernández-Trincado, Edmundo Moreno +12
We report an analysis of the metal-rich tail ([Fe/H] ) of halo stars located at distances from the Galactic plane up to kpc, observed by the Apache Point…
A chemical and kinematical analysis of the intermediate-age open cluster IC 166 from APOGEE and Gaia DR2
J. Schiappacasse-Ulloa, B. Tang, J. G. Fernández-Trincado +26
IC 166 is an intermediate-age open cluster ( Gyr) which lies in the transition zone of the metallicity gradient in the outer disc. Its location, combined with our very limi…
Signatures of the Galactic bar on stellar kinematics unveiled by APOGEE
Pedro Alonso Palicio, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Carlos Allende Prieto +7
Bars are common galactic structures in the local universe that play an important role in the secular evolution of galaxies, including the Milky Way. In particular, the velocity dis…
Disk-Like Chemistry of the Triangulum-Andromeda Overdensity as Seen by APOGEE
Christian R. Hayes, Steven R. Majewski, Sten Hasselquist +15
The nature of the Triangulum-Andromeda (TriAnd) system has been debated since the discovery of this distant, low-latitude Milky Way (MW) overdensity more than a decade ago. Explana…
The Origin of the 300 km s Stream Near Segue 1
Sal Wanying Fu, Joshua D. Simon, Matthew Shetrone +12
We present a search for new members of the 300 km s stream (300S) near the dwarf galaxy Segue 1 using wide-field survey data. We identify 11 previously unknown bright stream…
Age-resolved chemistry of red giants in the solar neighbourhood
Diane K. Feuillet, Jo Bovy, Jon Holtzman +7
In the age of high-resolution spectroscopic stellar surveys of the Milky Way, the number of stars with detailed abundances of multiple elements is rapidly increasing. These element…
Massive stars in the SDSS-IV/APOGEE SURVEY. I- OB stars
A. Roman-Lopes, C. RomÁn-ZÚÑiga, Mauricio Tapia +10
In this work we make use of DR14 APOGEE spectroscopic data to study a sample of 92 known OB stars. We developed a near-infrared semi-empirical spectral classification method that w…
Disentangling the Galactic Halo with APOGEE: II. Chemical and Star Formation Histories for the Two Distinct Populations
Emma Fernández-Alvar, Leticia Carigi, William J. Schuster +13
The formation processes that led to the current Galactic stellar halo are still under debate. Previous studies have provided evidence for different stellar populations in terms of…
Disentangling the Galactic Halo with APOGEE: I. Chemical and Kinematical Investigation of Distinct Metal-Poor Populations
Christian R. Hayes, Steven R. Majewski, Matthew Shetrone +21
We find two chemically distinct populations separated relatively cleanly in the [Fe/H] - [Mg/Fe] plane, but also distinguished in other chemical planes, among metal-poor stars (pri…
Atypical Mg-poor Milky Way field stars with globular cluster second-generation like chemical patterns
J. G. Fernández-Trincado, O. Zamora, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez +48
We report the peculiar chemical abundance patterns of eleven atypical Milky Way (MW) field red giant stars observed by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (A…
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…