APOGEE Data Releases 13 and 14: Stellar Parameter and Abundance Comparisons with Independent Analyses
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Jönsson, HenrikPrieto, Carlos Allende
Holtzman, J.

Feuillet, Diane K.
Hawkins, Keith
Cunha, Katia
Mészáros, Szabolcs
Hasselquist, Sten
Fernández-Trincado, J. G.
García-Hernández, D. A.

Bizyaev, Dmitry
Carrera, Ricardo
Majewski, Steven R.
Pinsonneault, Marc

Shetrone, Matthew
Smith, Verne
Sobeck, Jennifer
Souto, Diogo
Stringfellow, G. S.

Teske, Johanna
Zamora, Olga
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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2018-09
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Data from the SDSS-IV/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2) have been released as part of SDSS Data Releases 13 (DR13) and 14 (DR14). These include high-resolution H-band spectra, radial velocities, and derived stellar parameters and abundances. DR13, released in 2016 August, contained APOGEE data for roughly 150,000 stars, and DR14, released in 2017 August, added about 110,000 more. Stellar parameters and abundances have been derived with an automated pipeline, the APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundance Pipeline (ASPCAP). We evaluate the performance of this pipeline by comparing the derived stellar parameters and abundances to those inferred from optical spectra and analysis for several hundred stars. For most elements-C, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Cr, Mn, Ni-the DR14 ASPCAP analyses have systematic differences with the comparisons samples of less than 0.05 dex (median), and random differences of less than 0.15 dex (standard deviation). These differences are a combination of the uncertainties in both the comparison samples as well as the ASPCAP analysis. Compared to the references, magnesium is the most accurate alpha-element derived by ASPCAP, and shows a very clear thin/thick disk separation, while nickel is the most accurate iron-peak element (besides iron itself).ISSN
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Birgit and Hellmuth Hertz Foundation (via the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund); Crafoord Foundation; Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmastare; Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [AYA2017-86389-P, AYA-2017-88254-P]; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Simons Foundation Society; Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York City; Premium Postdoctoral Research Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Hungarian NKFI Grants of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [K-119517]; FONDECYT [3180210]; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science; Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah; Brazilian Participation Group; Carnegie Institution for Science; Carnegie Mellon University; Chilean Participation Group; French Participation Group; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias; Johns Hopkins University; Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP); Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg); Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching); Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE); National Astronomical Observatories of China; New Mexico State University; New York University; University of Notre Dame; Observatorio Nacional/MCTI; Ohio State University; Pennsylvania State University; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory; United Kingdom Participation Group; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; University of Arizona; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Oxford; University of Portsmouth; University of Utah; University of Virginia; University of Washington; University of Wisconsin; Vanderbilt University; Yale UniversityAdditional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/1538-3881/156/i=3/a=126?key=crossref.8c0622320e7ed69a73398eca204f1de6ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-3881/aad4f5