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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 ...

The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project. III. A Complete 4300 Deg(2) Survey Of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars In The Metal-Weak Thick Disk And Inner Halo

Brown, Warren R.; Beers, Timothy C.; Wilhelm, Ronald; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Geller, Margaret J.; Kenyon, Scott J.; Kurtz, Michael J. (2008-02)

We present a complete spectroscopic survey of 2414 2MASS-selected blue horizontal branch ( BHB) candidates selected over 4300 deg(2) of the sky. We identify 655 BHB stars in this non-kinematically selected sample. We ...

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 ...

New Detections Of Arsenic, Selenium, And Other Heavy Elements In Two Metal-Poor Stars

Roederer, Ian U.; Schatz, Hendrik; Lawler, James E.; Beers, Timothy C.; Cowan, John J.; Frebel, Anna; Ivans, Inese, I.; Sneden, Christopher; Sobeck, Jennifer S. (2014-08)

We use the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain new high-quality spectra covering the 1900 <= lambda <= 2360 angstrom wavelength range for two metal-poor stars, HD 108317 and ...

A Unique Star in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way

Lai, David K.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Bolte, Michael; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Beers, Timothy C.; Lee, Young Sun; Prieto, Carlos Allende; Yanny, Brian (2009-05)

As part of a program to measure abundance ratios in stars beyond 15 kpc from the Galactic center, we have discovered a metal-poor star in the outer halo with a unique chemical signature. We originally identified it in the ...

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan DIGITal Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Alam, Shadab; Albareti, Franco D.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anders, F.; Anderson, Scott F.; Anderton, Timothy; Andrews, Brett H.; Armengaud, Eric; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Basu, Sarbani; Bautista, Julian E.; Beaton, Rachael L.; Beers, Timothy C.; Bender, Chad F.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Beutler, Florian; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Bird, Jonathan C.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blake, Cullen H.; Blanton, Michael R.; Blomqvist, Michael; Bochanski, John J.; Bolton, Adam S.; Bovy, Jo; Bradley, A.Shelden; Brandt, W. N.; Brauer, D. E.; Brinkmann, J.; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burden, Angela; Burtin, Etienne; Busca, Nicolas G.; Cai, Zheng; Capozzi, Diego; Rosell, Aurelio Carnero; Carr, Michael A.; Carrera, Ricardo; Chambers, K. C.; Chaplin, William James; Chen, Yen-Chi; Chiappini, Cristina; Chojnowski, S. Drew; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Clerc, Nicolas; Comparat, Johan; Covey, Kevin; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Cunha, Katia; da Costa, Luiz N.; Da Rio, Nicola; Davenport, James R. A.; Dawson, Kyle S.; De Lee, Nathan; Delubac, Timothee; Deshpande, Rohit; Dhital, Saurav; Dutra-Ferreira, Leticia; Dwelly, Tom; Ealet, Anne; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Edmondson, Edward M.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Ellsworth, Tristan; Elsworth, Yvonne; Epstein, Courtney R.; Eracleous, Michael; Escoffier, Stephanie; Esposito, Massimiliano; Evans, Michael L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Fernandez-Alvar, Emma; Feuillet, Diane; Ak, Nurten Filiz; Finley, Hayley; Finoguenov, Alexis; Flaherty, Kevin; Fleming, Scott W.; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Foster, Jonathan; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Galbraith-Frew, J. G.; Garcia, Rafael A.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Garcia Perez, Ana E.; Gaulme, Patrick; Ge, Jian; Genova-Santos, R.; Georgakakis, A.; Ghezzi, Luan; Gillespie, Bruce A.; Girardi, Leo; Goddard, Daniel; Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A.; Gonzalez Hernandez, Jonay I.; Grebel, Eva K.; Green, Paul J.; Grieb, Jan Niklas; Grieves, Nolan; Gunn, James E.; Guo, Hong; Harding, Paul; Hasselquist, Sten; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hayden, Michael; Hearty, Fred R.; Hekker, Saskia; Ho, Shirley; Hogg, David W.; Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly; Holtzman, Jon A.; Honscheid, Klaus; Huber, Daniel; Huehnerhoff, Joseph; Ivans, Inese I.; Jiang, Linhua; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kirkby, David; Kitaura, Francisco; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapp, Gillian R.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Koenig, Xavier P.; Lam, Charles R.; Lan, Ting-Wen; Lang, Dustin; Laurent, Pierre; Le Goff, Jean-Marc; Leauthaud, Alexie; Lee, Khee-Gan; Lee, Young Sun; Licquia, Timothy C.; Liu, Jian; Long, Daniel C.; Lopez-Corredoira, Martin; Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego; Lucatello, Sara; Lundgren, Britt; Lupton, Robert H.; Mack, Claude E., III; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Maia, Marcio A. G.; Majewski, Steven R.; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Manchado, A.; Manera, Marc; Mao, Qingqing; Maraston, Claudia; Marchwinski, Robert C.; Margala, Daniel; Martell, Sarah L.; Martig, Marie; Masters, Karen L.; Mathur, Savita; McBride, Cameron K.; McGehee, Peregrine M.; McGreer, Ian D.; McMahon, Richard G.; Menard, Brice; Menzel, Marie-Luise; Merloni, Andrea; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Miller, Adam A.; Miralda-Escude, Jordi; Miyatake, Hironao; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; More, Surhud; Morganson, Eric; Morice-Atkinson, Xan; Morrison, Heather L.; Mosser, Benoit; Muna, Demitri; Myers, Adam D.; Nandra, Kirpal; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Neyrinck, Mark; Nguyen, Duy Cuong; Nichol, Robert C.; Nidever, David L.; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Nuza, Sebastian E.; O'Connell, Julia E.; O'Connell, Robert W.; O'Connell, Ross; Ogando, Ricardo L. C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Audrey E.; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Osumi, Keisuke; Owen, Russell; Padgett, Deborah L.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Paegert, Martin; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, Kaike; Parejko, John K.; Paris, Isabelle; Park, Changbom; Pattarakijwanich, Petchara; Pellejero-Ibanez, M.; Pepper, Joshua; Percival, Will J.; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Perez-Rafols, Ignasi; Petitjean, Patrick; Pieri, Matthew M.; Pinsonneault, Marc H.; Porto de Mello, Gustavo F.; Prada, Francisco; Prakash, Abhishek; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Protopapas, Pavlos; Raddick, M. Jordan; Rahman, Mubdi; Reid, Beth A.; Rich, James; Rix, Hans-Walter; Robin, Annie C.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Rodrigues, Thaise S.; Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio; Roe, Natalie A.; Ross, Ashley J.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Rossi, Graziano; Ruan, John J.; Rubino-Martin, J. A.; Rykoff, Eli S.; Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador; Salvato, Mara; Samushia, Lado; Sanchez, Ariel G.; Santiago, Basilio; Sayres, Conor; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schlegel, David J.; Schmidt, Sarah J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Schultheis, Mathias; Schwope, Axel D.; Scoccola, C. G.; Scott, Caroline; Sellgren, Kris; Seo, Hee-Jong; Serenelli, Aldo; Shane, Neville; Shen, Yue; Shetrone, Matthew; Shu, Yiping; Aguirre, V. Silva; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Skrutskie, M. F.; Slosar, Anze; Smith, Verne V.; Sobreira, Flavia; Souto, Diogo; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stello, Dennis; Strauss, Michael A.; Streblyanska, Alina; Suzuki, Nao; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Tan, Jonathan C.; Tayar, Jamie; Terrien, Ryan C.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Thomas, Daniel; Thomas, Neil; Thompson, Benjamin A.; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tojeiro, Rita; Troup, Nicholas W.; Vargas-Magana, Mariana; Vazquez, Jose A.; Verde, Licia; Viel, Matteo; Vogt, Nicole P.; Wake, David A.; Wang, Ji; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Weinberg, David H.; Weiner, Benjamin J.; White, Martin; Wilson, John C.; Wisniewski, John P.; Wood-Vasey, W.; M.; Yeche, Christophe; York, Donald G.; Zakamska, Nadia L.; Zamora, O.; Zasowski, Gail; Zehavi, Idit; Zhao, Gong-Bo; Zheng, Zheng; Zhou, Xu; Zhou, Zhimin; Zou, Hu; Zhu, Guangtun (2015-07)

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new ...

Distances To Galactic High-Velocity Clouds: Complex C

Wakker, B. P.; York, D. G.; Howk, J. C.; Barentine, John C.; Wilhelm, R.; Peletier, R. F.; van Woerden, H.; Beers, Timothy C.; Ivezic, Z.; Richter, P.; Schwarz, U. J. (2007-12)

We report the first determination of a distance bracket for the high- velocity cloud (HVC) complex C. Combined with previous measurements showing that this cloud has a metallicity of 0.15 times solar, these results provide ...