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most citedThe Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 72 cited

A Tale of Two Disks: Mapping the Milky Way with the Final Data Release of APOGEE

Julie Imig, Cathryn Price, Jon A. Holtzman +24

We present new maps of the Milky Way disk showing the distribution of metallicity ([Fe/H]), -element abundances ([Mg/Fe]), and stellar age, using a sample of 66,496 red giant st…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Revealing the Chemical Structure of the Magellanic Clouds with APOGEE. I. Calculating Individual Stellar Ages of RGB Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Joshua T. Povick, David L. Nidever, Pol Massana +12

Stellar ages are critical for understanding the temporal evolution of a galaxy. We calculate the ages of over 6000 red giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observ…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Prevalence of the -bimodality: First JWST -abundance Results in M31

David L. Nidever, Karoline Gilbert, Erik Tollerud +8

We present initial results from our JWST NIRSpec program to study the -abundances in the M31 disk. The Milky Way has two chemically-defined disks, the low- and high- disks…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 54 cited

BACCHUS Analysis of Weak Lines in APOGEE Spectra (BAWLAS)

Christian R. Hayes, Thomas Masseron, Jennifer Sobeck +11

Elements with weak and blended spectral features in stellar spectra are challenging to measure and require specialized analysis methods to precisely measure their chemical abundanc…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 143 cited

The chemical characterisation of halo substructure in the Milky Way based on APOGEE

Danny Horta, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth +21

Galactic haloes in a -CDM universe are predicted to host today a swarm of debris resulting from cannibalised dwarf galaxies. The chemo-dynamical information recorded in their st…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 16 cited

Fluorine Abundances in the Galactic Nuclear Star Cluster

Rafael Guerço, Solange Ramírez, Katia Cunha +4

Abundances of fluorine (F), as well as isotopic ratios of O/O, are derived in a sample of luminous young (10--10 yrs) red giants in the Galac…

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.GA2021★ 33 cited

Exploring the s-process history in the Galactic disk: Cerium abundances and gradients in Open Clusters from the OCCAM/APOGEE sample

J. V. Sales-Silva, S. Daflon, K. Cunha +21

The APOGEE Open Cluster Chemical Abundances and Mapping (OCCAM) survey is used to probe the chemical evolution of the s-process element cerium in the Galactic disk. Cerium abundanc…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 152 cited

APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites

Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Jianhui Lian +42

The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey has obtained high-resolution spectra for thousands of red giant stars distributed among the massi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

APOGEE-2S Discovery of Light- and Heavy-Element Abundance Correlations in the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6380

José G. Fernández-Trincado, Timothy C. Beers, Beatriz Barbuy +11

We derive abundance ratios for nine stars in the relatively high-metallicity bulge globular cluster NGC 6380. We find a mean cluster metallicity between [Fe/H] and …

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.GA2021★ 48 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Mapping Disk Populations with a Two-Process Model and Residual Abundances

David H. Weinberg, Jon A. Holtzman, Jennifer A. Johnson +33

We apply a novel statistical analysis to measurements of 16 elemental abundances in 34,410 Milky Way disk stars from the final data release (DR17) of APOGEE-2. Building on recent w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

Chemodynamically Characterizing the Jhelum Stellar Stream with APOGEE-2

Allyson A. Sheffield, Aidan Z. Subrahimovic, Mohammad Refat +15

We present the kinematic and chemical profiles of red giant stars observed by the APOGEE-2 survey in the direction of the Jhelum stellar stream, a Milky Way substructure located in…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 49 cited

Exploring the stellar age distribution of the Milky Way Bulge using APOGEE

Sten Hasselquist, Gail Zasowski, Diane K. Feuillet +20

We present stellar age distributions of the Milky Way (MW) bulge region using ages for 6,000 high-luminosity (), metal-rich () bulge stars…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 481 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 119 cited

The Milky Way bar and bulge revealed by APOGEE DR16 and Gaia EDR3

A. B. A. Queiroz, C. Chiappini, A. Perez-Villegas +23

We investigate the inner regions of the Milky Way with a sample of unprecedented size and coverage thanks to APOGEE DR16 and Gaia EDR3 data. Our inner Galactic sample has more than…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 224 cited

Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy

Danny Horta, Ricardo P. Schiavon, J. Ted Mackereth +13

We report evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a new metal-poor stellar structure located within 4~kpc of the Galactic centre. Characterised by a chemical composition res…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 32 cited

Fluorine in the solar neighbourhood: the need for several cosmic sources

Nils Ryde, Henrik Jönsson, Gregory Mace +14

The cosmic origin of fluorine is still not well constrained. Several nucleosynthetic channels at different phases of stellar evolution have been suggested, but these must be constr…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 75 cited

Metallicity and -element Abundance Gradients along the Sagittarius Stream as Seen by APOGEE

Christian R. Hayes, Steven R. Majewski, Sten Hasselquist +27

Using 3D positions and kinematics of stars relative to the Sagittarius (Sgr) orbital plane and angular momentum, we identify 166 Sgr stream members observed by the Apache Point Obs…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 43 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 123 cited

The Lazy Giants: APOGEE Abundances Reveal Low Star Formation Efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds

David L. Nidever, Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes +28

We report the first APOGEE metallicities and alpha-element abundances measured for 3600 red giant stars spanning a large radial range of both the Large (LMC) and Small Magellanic C…

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.GA2018★ 42 cited

A comprehensive comparison between APOGEE and LAMOST: Radial Velocities and Atmospheric Stellar Parameters

B. Anguiano, S. R. Majewski, C. Allende-Prieto +7

We undertake a critical and comprehensive comparison of the radial velocities and the main stellar atmospheric parameters for stars in common between the latest data releases from…