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Discovery of a Dynamical Cold Point in the Heart of the Sagittarius dSph Galaxy With Observations from the APOGEE Project

Majewski, Steven R.; Hasselquist, Sten; Lokas, Ewa L.; Nidever, David L.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Garcia Perez, Ana E.; Johnston, Kathryn V.; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Shetrone, Matthew; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Beaton, Rachael L.; Beers, Timothy C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Cunha, Katia; Damke, Guillermo; Ebelke, Garrett; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Hearty, Fred; Holtzman, Jon; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Law, David R.; Malanushenko, Viktor; Malanushenko, Elena; O'Connell, Robert W.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schneider, Donald P.; Simmons, Audrey; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Smith, Verne V.; Wilson, John C.; Zasowski, Gail (2013-11)

The dynamics of the core of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy are explored using high-resolution (R similar to 22,500), H-band, near-infrared spectra of over 1000 giant stars in the central 3 deg(2) of ...

The Open Cluster Chemical Analysis and Mapping Survey: Local Galactic Metallicity Gradient with APOGEE Using SDSS DR10

Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Thompson, Benjamin; Jackson, Kelly M.; O'Connell, Julia; Meyer, Brianne; Zasowski, Gail; Majewski, Steven R.; Chojnowksi, S. Drew; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Beers, Timothy C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; Cunha, Katia; Ebelke, Garrett; Perez, Ana; Elia Garcia; Hearty, Frederick R.; Holtzman, Jon; Kinemuchi, Karen; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Marchante, Moses; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Muna, Demitri; Nidever, David L.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schneider, Donald P.; Shetrone, Matthew; Simmons, Audrey; Snedden, Stephanie; Smith, Verne V.; Wilson, John C. (2013-11)

The Open Cluster Chemical Analysis and Mapping (OCCAM) survey aims to produce a comprehensive, uniform, infrared-based data set for hundreds of open clusters, and constrain key Galactic dynamical and chemical parameters ...

Very Metal-Poor Stars in the Outer Galactic Bulge Found By the APOGEE Survey

Garcia Perez, Ana E.; Cunha, Katia; Shetrone, Matthew; Majewski, Steven R.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Smith, Verne V.; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Holtzman, Jon; Nidever, David; Zasowski, Gail; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Beers, Timothy C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Ebelke, Garrett; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Girardi, Leo; Hearty, Fred R.; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Meszaros, Szabolcs; O'Connell, Robert W.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Robin, Annie C.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schultheis, Mathias; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Simmonsand, Audrey; Wilson, John C. (2013-04)

Despite its importance for understanding the nature of early stellar generations and for constraining Galactic bulge Formation models, at present little is known about the metal-poor stellar content of the central Milky ...

Testing the Asteroseismic Mass Scale Using Metal-Poor Stars Characterized With APOGEE and Kepler

Epstein, Courtney R.; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Shetrone, Matthew; Mosser, Benoit; Hekker, Saskia; Tayar, Jamie; Harding, Paul; Pinsonneault, Marc; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Basu, Sarbani; Beers, Timothy C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Bedding, Timothy R.; Chaplin, William J.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Garcia, Rafael A.; Perez, Ana E. Garcia; Hearty, Fred R.; Huber, Daniel; Ivans, Inese I.; Majewski, Steven R.; Mathur, Savita; Nidever, David; Serenelli, Aldo; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schoenrichi, Ralph; Sobeck, Jennifer S.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Stello, Dennis; Zasowski, Gail (2014-04)

Fundamental stellar properties, such as mass, radius, and age, can be inferred using asteroseismology. Cool stars with convective envelopes have turbulent motions that can stochastically drive and damp pulsations. The ...

Overview Of The SDSS-IV Manga Survey: Mapping Nearby Galaxies At Apache Point Observatory

Bundy, Kevin; Bershady, Matthew A.; Law, David R.; Yan, Renbin; Drory, Niv; MacDonald, Nicholas; Wake, David A.; Cherinka, Brian; Sanchez-Gallego, Jose R.; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Thomas, Daniel; Tremonti, Christy; Masters, Karen; Coccato, Lodovico; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso; Avila-Reese, Vladimir; Badenes, Carles; Falcon-Barroso, Jesus; Belfiore, Francesco; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanc, Guillermo A.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Blanton, Michael R.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Byler, Nell; Cappellari, Michele; Conroy, Charlie; Dutton, Aaron A.; Emsellem, Eric; Etherington, James; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Fu, Hai; Gunn, James E.; Harding, Paul; Johnston, Evelyn J.; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kinemuchi, Karen; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapen, Johan H.; Leauthaud, Alexie; Li, Cheng; Lin, Lihwai; Maiolino, Roberto; Malanushenko, Viktor; Malanushenko, Elena; Mao, Shude; Maraston, Claudia; McDermid, Richard M.; Merrifield, Michael R.; Nichol, Robert C.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Parejko, John K.; Sanchez, Sebastian F.; Schlegel, David; Simmons, Audrey; Steele, Oliver; Steinmetz, Matthias; Thanjavur, Karun; Thompson, Benjamin A.; Tinker, Jeremy L.; van den Bosch, Remco C. E.; Westfall, Kyle B.; Wilkinson, David; Wright, Shelley; Xiao, Ting; Zhang, Kai (2015-01)

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) ...

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment: First Detection of High-Velocity Milky Way Bar Stars

Nidever, David L.; Zasowski, Gail; Majewski, Steven R.; Bird, Jonathan; Robin, Annie C.; Martinez-Valpuesta, Inma; Beaton, Rachael L.; Schoenrich, Ralph; Schultheis, Mathias; Wilson, John C.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; O'Connell, Robert W.; Shetrone, Matthew; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Weiner, Benjamin; Gerhard, Ortwin; Schneider, Donald P.; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Sellgren, Kris; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; Brinkmann, Jon; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Perez, Ana Elia Garcia; Holtzman, Jon; Hearty, Fred R.; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Muna, Demitri; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Simmons, Audrey; Snedden, Stephanie; Weaver, Benjamin A. (2012-08)

Commissioning observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, have produced radial velocities (RVs) for similar to 4700 K/M-giant stars in ...

Chemical Abundances In Field Red Giants From High-Resolution H-Band Spectra Using The APOGEE Spectral Linelist

Smith, Verne V.; Cunha, Katia; Shetrone, Matthew D.; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Perez, Ana Garcia; Majewski, Steven R.; Schiavon, Ricardo; Holtzman, Jon; Johnson, John A. (2013-03)

High-resolution H-band spectra of five bright field K, M, and MS giants, obtained from the archives of the Kitt Peak National Observatory Fourier transform spectrometer, are analyzed to determine chemical abundances of 16 ...

The APOGEE Red-Clump Catalog: Precise Distances, Velocities, And High-Resolution Elemental Abundances Over A Large Area Of The Milky Way's Disk

Bovy, Jo; Nidever, David L.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Girardi, Leo; Zasowski, Gail; Chojnowski, S. Drew; Holtzman, Jon; Epstein, Courtney; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Hayden, Michael R.; Rodrigues, Thaise S.; Majewski, Steven R.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Pinsonneault, Marc H.; Stello, Dennis; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Andrews, Brett; Basu, Sarbani; Beers, Timothy C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Burton, Adam; Chaplin, William J.; Cunha, Katia; Elsworth, Yvonne; Garcia, Rafael A.; Garcia-Hernandez, Domingo A.; Garcia Perez, Ana E.; Hearty, Fred R.; Hekker, Saskia; Kallinger, Thomas; Kinemuchi, Karen; Koesterke, Lars; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Mosser, Benoit; O'Connell, Robert W.; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Robin, Annie C.; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schultheis, Mathias; Serenelli, Aldo; Shetrone, Matthew; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Simmons, Audrey; Skrutskie, Michael; Smith, Verne V.; Stassun, Keivan; Weinberg, David H.; Wilson, John C.; Zamora, Olga (2014-08)

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III's Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopic survey covering all of the major components of the Galaxy, including the ...

Galactic Globular and Open Clusters in the Sloan DIGITal Sky Survey. I. Crowded-Field Photometry and Cluster Fiducial Sequences in Ugriz

An, Deokkeun; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Clem, James L.; Yanny, Brian; Rockosi, Constance M.; Morrison, Heather L.; Harding, Paul; Gunn, James E.; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Beers, Timothy C.; Cudworth, Kyle M.; Ivans, Inese I.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Lee, Young Sun; Lupton, Robert H.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Oravetz, Dan; Pan, Kaike; Simmons, Audrey; Snedden, Stephanie; Watters, Shannon; York, Donald G. (2008-12)

We present photometry for globular and open cluster stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In order to exploit the over 100 million stellar objects with r < 22:5 mag observed by SDSS, we need to understand ...

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Abazajian, Kevork N.; Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.; Agueros, Marcel A.; Allam, Sahar S.; Prieto, Carlos Allende; An, Deokkeun; Anderson, Kurt S. J.; Anderson, Scott F.; Annis, James; Bahcall, Neta A.; Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Barentine, J. C.; Bassett, Bruce A.; Becker, Andrew C.; Beers, Timothy C.; Bell, Eric F.; Belokurov, Vasily; Berlind, Andreas A.; Berman, Eileen F.; Bernardi, Mariangela; Bickerton, Steven J.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blakeslee, John P.; Blanton, Michael R.; Bochanski, John J.; Boroski, William N.; Brewington, Howard J.; Brinchmann, Jarle; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert J.; Budavari, Tamas; Carey, Larry N.; Carliles, Samuel; Carr, Michael A.; Castander, Francisco J.; Cinabro, David; Connolly, A. J.; Csabai, Istvan; Cunha, Carlos E.; Czarapata, Paul C.; Davenport, James R. A.; de Haas, Ernst; Dilday, Ben; Doi, Mamoru; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Evans, Michael L.; Evans, N. W.; Fan, Xiaohui; Friedman, Scott D.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gansicke, Boris T.; Gates, Evalyn; Gillespie, Bruce; Gilmore, G.; Gonzalez, Belinda; Gonzalez, Carlos F.; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; Gyory, Zsuzsanna; Hall, Patrick B.; Harding, Paul; Harris, Frederick H.; Harvanek, Michael; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hayes, Jeffrey J. E.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Hendry, John S.; Hennessy, Gregory S.; Hindsley, Robert B.; Hoblitt, J.; Hogan, Craig J.; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Hyde, Joseph B.; Ichikawa, Shin-ichi; Ichikawa, Takashi; Im, Myungshin; Ivezic, Zeljko; Jester, Sebastian; Jiang, Linhua; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jorgensen, Anders M.; Juric, Mario; Kent, Stephen M.; Kessler, R.; Kleinman, S. J.; Knapp, G. R.; Konishi, Kohki; Kron, Richard G.; Krzesinski, Jurek; Kuropatkin, Nikolay; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lebedeva, Svetlana; Lee, Myung Gyoon; Lee, Young Sun; Leger, R.French; Lepine, Sebastien; Li, Nolan; Lima, Marcos; Lin, Huan; Long, Daniel C.; Loomis, Craig P.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Magnier, Eugene; Malanushenko, Olena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Margon, Bruce; Marriner, John P.; Martinez-Delgado, David; Matsubara, Takahiko; McGehee, Peregrine M.; McKay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Morrison, Heather L.; Mullally, Fergal; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Murphy, Tara; Nash, Thomas; Nebot, Ada; Neilsen, Eric H., Jr.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Newman, Peter R.; Nichol, Robert C.; Nicinski, Tom; Nieto-Santisteban, Maria; Nitta, Atsuko; Okamura, Sadanori; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.; Owen, Russell; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Pan, Kaike; Park, Changbom; Pauls, George; Peoples, John, Jr.; Percival, Will J.; Pier, Jeffrey R.; Pope, Adrian C.; Pourbaix, Dimitri; Price, Paul A.; Purger, Norbert; Quinn, Thomas; Raddick, M. Jordan; Fiorentin, Paola Re; Richards, Gordon T.; Richmond, Michael W.; Riess, Adam G.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Rockosi, Constance M.; Sako, Masao; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Scholz, Ralf-Dieter; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Schwope, Axel D.; Seljak, Uros; Sesar, Branimir; Sheldon, Erin; Shimasaku, Kazu; Sibley, Valena C.; Simmons, A. E.; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Smith, J. Allyn; Smith, Martin C.; Smolcic, Vernesa; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stebbins, Albert; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; SubbaRao, Mark; Suto, Yasushi; Szalay, Alexander S.; Szapudi, Istvan; Szkody, Paula; Tanaka, Masayuki; Tegmark, Max; Teodoro, Luis F. A.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Tucker, Douglas L.; Uomoto, Alan; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Vandenberg, Jan; Vidrih, S.; Vogeley, Michael S.; Voges, Wolfgang; Vogt, Nicole P.; Wadadekar, Yogesh; Watters, Shannon; Weinberg, David H.; West, Andrew A.; White, Simon D. M.; Wilhite, Brian C.; Wonders, Alainna C.; Yanny, Brian; Yocum, D. R.; York, Donald G.; Zehavi, Idit; Zibetti, Stefano; Zucker, Daniel B. (2009-05)

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11,663 deg(2) of imaging ...