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APOGEE Publications and Results
Introduction
- For a list of APOGEE technical publications, see the technical papers page.
- For a complete list of SDSS-III publications, see the publications page.
- On the remainder of this page, we provide some APOGEE results of general interest to the community.
APOGEE Science Papers
| Title | First Author | Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Testing the Asteroseismic Mass Scale Using Metal-poor Stars Characterized with APOGEE and Kepler | C. R. Epstein | 2014ApJ...785L..28E |
| New Red Jewels in Coma Berenices | R. C. Terrien | 2014ApJ...782...61T |
| Extinction Maps toward the Milky Way Bulge: Two-dimensional and Three-dimensional Tests with APOGEE | M. Schultheis | 2014AJ....148...24S |
| Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Large-scale Mean Metallicity Maps of the Milky Way Disk | M. R. Hayden | 2014AJ....147..116H |
| Discovery of Two Rare Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere Stars in the APOGEE Survey | S. S. Eikenberry | 2014ApJ...784L..30E |
| Chemodynamics of the Milky Way. I. The first year of APOGEE data | F. Anders | 2014A&A...564A.115A |
| The SDSS-III APOGEE Radial Velocity Survey of M Dwarfs. I. Description of the Survey and Science Goals | R. Deshpande | 2013AJ....146..156D |
| Discovery of a Dynamical Cold Point in the Heart of the Sagittarius dSph Galaxy with Observations from the APOGEE Project | S. R. Majewski | 2013ApJ...777L..13M |
| The Open Cluster Chemical Analysis and Mapping Survey: Local Galactic Metallicity Gradient with APOGEE Using SDSS DR10 | P. M. Frinchaboy | 2013ApJ...777L...1F |
| Very Metal-poor Stars in the Outer Galactic Bulge Found by the APOGEE Survey | A. E. García Pérez | 2013ApJ...767L...9G |
| Chemical Abundances in Field Red Giants from High-resolution H-band Spectra Using the APOGEE Spectral Linelist | V. V. Smith | 2013ApJ...765...16S |
| The Milky Way's Circular-velocity Curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data | J. Bovy | 2012ApJ...759..131B |
| New ATLAS9 and MARCS Model Atmosphere Grids for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) | S. Mészáros | 2012AJ....144..120M |
| The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment: First Detection of High-velocity Milky Way Bar Stars | D. L. Nidever | 2012ApJ...755L..25N |
Cross-Calibration of APOGEE Targets
As described in the APOGEE target selection page, APOGEE has observed a significant number of "calibration" stars. Other surveys may wish to observe the same stars when possible, so we release this list of stars here.
This compressed FITS file
contains a subset of stars that APOGEE has
started observing. These are located in fields with well-studied open and
globular clusters, bulge fields, and equatorial fields. Almost all the
stars were observed in Year 1 of APOGEE, and so their spectra (co-added with all
observations through July 2012) were released
in Data Release 10 (DR10) in July 2013. The exceptions are the stars with the flag COROT_STD
and Right Ascension near 19:25h. That field's data will be released
later because it was observed in Year 2.
A subset of these stars that meet S/N and other quality requirements had their stellar parameters, as determined by the APOGEE pipeline, released in DR10. We cannot guarantee that every star in this list will eventually have high quality stellar parameters and/or abundances from APOGEE. For instance, while APOGEE has started observations of all the listed stars, the fainter stars are scheduled for additional visits and therefore may not achieve the necessary signal before the end of the survey (depending on variables such as weather), which means their parameters may not be well-determined even in future data releases. Furthermore, APOGEE currently has only approximate parameters for the hot telluric standards.
The FITS table APOGEE_CrossCalib.fits.gz has six columns:
| Column | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TMASS_ID | 2MASS ID for the object |
| 2 | RA | right ascension of object (J2000) in decimal degrees |
| 3 | DEC | declination of object (J2000) in decimal degrees |
| 4 | PARAM_ABUND_STD | see flag descriptions below |
| 5 | CLUSTER_MEMBER | see flag descriptions below |
| 6 | COROT_STD | see flag descriptions below |
The objects may have zero or more flags set:
- no flags set
- Most are red stars selected on J-K0 color. Some are blue stars for telluric correction.
- PARAM_ABUND_STD
- High-resolution analysis is available in the literature, usually because the star is a cluster member.
- CLUSTER_MEMBER
- Star was identified as a cluster member by proper motion or radial velocity, or explicitly included as a confirmed non-member for calibration purposes.
- COROT_STD
- Star is in CoRoT field.
DR10 contains detailed information on these targets.
Please contact Jennifer Johnson (jaj -at- astronomy.ohio-state.edu) if you have any questions.