Michael R. Hayden; Jon A. Holtzman; Jo Bovy; Steven R. Majewski; Jennifer A. Johnson; Carlos Allende Prieto; Timothy C. Beers; Katia Cunha; Peter M. Frinchaboy; Ana E. García Pérez; Léo Girardi; Fred R. Hearty; Young Sun Lee; David Nidever; Ricardo P. Schiavon; Katharine J. Schlesinger; Donald P. Schneider; Mathias Schultheis; Matthew Shetrone; Verne V. Smith; Gail Zasowski; Dmitry Bizyaev; Diane Feuillet; Sten Hasselquist; Karen Kinemuchi; Elena Malanushenko; Viktor Malanushenko; Robert O'Connell; Kaike Pan; Keivan Stassun (2014-05)
We present Galactic mean metallicity maps derived from the first year of the SDSS-III APOGEE experiment. Mean abundances in different zones of projected Galactocentric radius (0 < R < 15 kpc) at a range of heights above ...