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The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Authors :
Ahn, Christopher P. Alexandroff, Rachael Prieto, Carlos Allende Anders, Friedrich Anderson, Scott F. Anderton, Timothy Andrews, Brett H. Aubourg, Éric Bailey, Stephen Bastien, Fabienne A. Bautista, Julian E. Beers, Timothy C. Beifiori, Alessandra 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. Borde, Arnaud Bovy, Jo Bradley, Alaina Shelden Brandt, W. N. Brauer, Dorothée Brinkmann, J. Brownstein, Joel R. Busca, Nicolás G. Carithers, William Carlberg, Joleen K. Carnero, Aurelio R. Carr, Michael A. Chiappini, Cristina Chojnowski, S. Drew Chuang, Chia-Hsun Comparat, Johan Crepp, Justin R. Cristiani, Stefano Croft, Rupert A. C. Cuesta, Antonio J. Cunha, Katia da Costa, Luiz N. Dawson, Kyle S. De Lee, Nathan Dean, Janice D. R. Delubac, Timothée Deshpande, Rohit Dhital, Saurav Ealet, Anne Ebelke, Garrett L. Edmondson, Edward M. Eisenstein, Daniel J. Epstein, Courtney R. Escoffier, Stephanie Esposito, Massimiliano Evans, Michael L. Fabbian, D. Fan, Xiaohui Favole, Ginevra Castellá, Bruno Femenía Alvar, Emma Fernández Feuillet, Diane Ak, Nurten Filiz Finley, Hayley Fleming, Scott W. Font-Ribera, Andreu Frinchaboy, Peter M. Galbraith-Frew, J. G. García-Hernández, D. A. Pérez, Ana E. García Ge, Jian Génova-Santos, R. Gillespie, Bruce A. Girardi, Léo Hernández, Jonay I. González Gott III, J. Richard Gunn, James E. Guo, Hong Halverson, Samuel Harding, Paul Harris, David W. Hasselquist, Sten Hawley, Suzanne L. Hayden, Michael Hearty, Frederick R. Davó, Artemio Herrero Ho, Shirley Hogg, David W. Holtzman, Jon A. Honscheid, Klaus Huehnerhoff, Joseph Ivans, Inese I. Jackson, Kelly M. Jiang, Peng Johnson, Jennifer A. Kirkby, David Kinemuchi, K. Klaene, Mark A. Kneib, Jean-Paul Koesterke, Lars Lan, Ting-Wen Lang, Dustin Goff, Jean-Marc Le Lee, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Long, Daniel C. Loomis, Craig P. Lucatello, Sara Lupton, Robert H. Ma, Bo Mack III, Claude E. Mahadevan, Suvrath Maia, Marcio A. G. Majewski, Steven R. Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Manchado, A. Manera, Marc Maraston, Claudia Margala, Daniel Martell, Sarah L. Masters, Karen L. McBride, Cameron K. McGreer, Ian D. McMahon, Richard G. Ménard, Brice Mészáros, Sz. Miralda-Escudé, Jordi Miyatake, Hironao Montero-Dorta, Antonio D. Montesano, Francesco More, Surhud Morrison, Heather L. Muna, Demitri Munn, Jeffrey A. Myers, Adam D. Nguyen, Duy Cuong Nichol, Robert C. Nidever, David L. Noterdaeme, Pasquier Nuza, Sebastián E. O'Connell, Julia E. O'Connell, Robert W. O'Connell, Ross Olmstead, Matthew D. Oravetz, Daniel J. Owen, Russell Padmanabhan, Nikhil Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie Pan, Kaike Parejko, John K. Pâris, Isabelle Pepper, Joshua Percival, Will J. Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi Perottoni, Hélio Dotto Petitjean, Patrick Pieri, Matthew M. Pinsonneault, M. H. Prada, Francisco Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Raddick, M. Jordan Rahman, Mubdi Rebolo, Rafael Reid, Beth A. Richards, Jonathan C. Riffel, Rogério Robin, Annie C. Rocha-Pinto, H. J. Rockosi, Constance M. Roe, Natalie A. Ross, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Rossi, Graziano Roy, Arpita Rubiño-Martin, J. A. Sabiu, Cristiano G. Sánchez, Ariel G. Santiago, Basílio Sayres, Conor Schiavon, Ricardo P. Schlegel, David J. Schlesinger, Katharine J. Schmidt, Sarah J. Schneider, Donald P. Schultheis, Mathias Sellgren, Kris Seo, Hee-Jong Shen, Yue Shetrone, Matthew Shu, Yiping Simmons, Audrey E. Skrutskie, M. F. Slosar, Anže Smith, Verne V. Snedden, Stephanie A. Sobeck, Jennifer S. Sobreira, Flavia Stassun, Keivan G. Steinmetz, Matthias Strauss, Michael A. Streblyanska, Alina Suzuki, Nao Swanson, Molly E. C. Terrien, Ryan C. Thakar, Aniruddha R. Thomas, Daniel Thompson, Benjamin A. Tinker, Jeremy L. Tojeiro, Rita Troup, Nicholas W. Vandenberg, Jan Magaña, Mariana Vargas Viel, Matteo Vogt, Nicole P. Wake, David A. Weaver, Benjamin A. Weinberg, David H. Weiner, Benjamin J. White, Martin White, Simon D. M. Wilson, John C. Wisniewski, John P. Wood-Vasey, W. M. Yèche, Christophe York, Donald G. Zamora, O. Zasowski, Gail Zehavi, Idit Zheng, Zheng Zhu, Guangtun Ahn, Christopher P. Alexandroff, Rachael Prieto, Carlos Allende Anders, Friedrich Anderson, Scott F. Anderton, Timothy Andrews, Brett H. Aubourg, Éric Bailey, Stephen Bastien, Fabienne A. Bautista, Julian E. Beers, Timothy C. Beifiori, Alessandra 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. Borde, Arnaud Bovy, Jo Bradley, Alaina Shelden Brandt, W. N. Brauer, Dorothée Brinkmann, J. Brownstein, Joel R. Busca, Nicolás G. Carithers, William Carlberg, Joleen K. Carnero, Aurelio R. Carr, Michael A. Chiappini, Cristina Chojnowski, S. Drew Chuang, Chia-Hsun Comparat, Johan Crepp, Justin R. Cristiani, Stefano Croft, Rupert A. C. Cuesta, Antonio J. Cunha, Katia da Costa, Luiz N. Dawson, Kyle S. De Lee, Nathan Dean, Janice D. R. Delubac, Timothée Deshpande, Rohit Dhital, Saurav Ealet, Anne Ebelke, Garrett L. Edmondson, Edward M. Eisenstein, Daniel J. Epstein, Courtney R. Escoffier, Stephanie Esposito, Massimiliano Evans, Michael L. Fabbian, D. Fan, Xiaohui Favole, Ginevra Castellá, Bruno Femenía Alvar, Emma Fernández Feuillet, Diane Ak, Nurten Filiz Finley, Hayley Fleming, Scott W. Font-Ribera, Andreu Frinchaboy, Peter M. Galbraith-Frew, J. G. García-Hernández, D. A. Pérez, Ana E. García Ge, Jian Génova-Santos, R. Gillespie, Bruce A. Girardi, Léo Hernández, Jonay I. González Gott III, J. Richard Gunn, James E. Guo, Hong Halverson, Samuel Harding, Paul Harris, David W. Hasselquist, Sten Hawley, Suzanne L. Hayden, Michael Hearty, Frederick R. Davó, Artemio Herrero Ho, Shirley Hogg, David W. Holtzman, Jon A. Honscheid, Klaus Huehnerhoff, Joseph Ivans, Inese I. Jackson, Kelly M. Jiang, Peng Johnson, Jennifer A. Kirkby, David Kinemuchi, K. Klaene, Mark A. Kneib, Jean-Paul Koesterke, Lars Lan, Ting-Wen Lang, Dustin Goff, Jean-Marc Le Lee, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Long, Daniel C. Loomis, Craig P. Lucatello, Sara Lupton, Robert H. Ma, Bo Mack III, Claude E. Mahadevan, Suvrath Maia, Marcio A. G. Majewski, Steven R. Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Manchado, A. Manera, Marc Maraston, Claudia Margala, Daniel Martell, Sarah L. Masters, Karen L. McBride, Cameron K. McGreer, Ian D. McMahon, Richard G. Ménard, Brice Mészáros, Sz. Miralda-Escudé, Jordi Miyatake, Hironao Montero-Dorta, Antonio D. Montesano, Francesco More, Surhud Morrison, Heather L. Muna, Demitri Munn, Jeffrey A. Myers, Adam D. Nguyen, Duy Cuong Nichol, Robert C. Nidever, David L. Noterdaeme, Pasquier Nuza, Sebastián E. O'Connell, Julia E. O'Connell, Robert W. O'Connell, Ross Olmstead, Matthew D. Oravetz, Daniel J. Owen, Russell Padmanabhan, Nikhil Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie Pan, Kaike Parejko, John K. Pâris, Isabelle Pepper, Joshua Percival, Will J. Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi Perottoni, Hélio Dotto Petitjean, Patrick Pieri, Matthew M. Pinsonneault, M. H. Prada, Francisco Price-Whelan, Adrian M. Raddick, M. Jordan Rahman, Mubdi Rebolo, Rafael Reid, Beth A. Richards, Jonathan C. Riffel, Rogério Robin, Annie C. Rocha-Pinto, H. J. Rockosi, Constance M. Roe, Natalie A. Ross, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Rossi, Graziano Roy, Arpita Rubiño-Martin, J. A. Sabiu, Cristiano G. Sánchez, Ariel G. Santiago, Basílio Sayres, Conor Schiavon, Ricardo P. Schlegel, David J. Schlesinger, Katharine J. Schmidt, Sarah J. Schneider, Donald P. Schultheis, Mathias Sellgren, Kris Seo, Hee-Jong Shen, Yue Shetrone, Matthew Shu, Yiping Simmons, Audrey E. Skrutskie, M. F. Slosar, Anže Smith, Verne V. Snedden, Stephanie A. Sobeck, Jennifer S. Sobreira, Flavia Stassun, Keivan G. Steinmetz, Matthias Strauss, Michael A. Streblyanska, Alina Suzuki, Nao Swanson, Molly E. C. Terrien, Ryan C. Thakar, Aniruddha R. Thomas, Daniel Thompson, Benjamin A. Tinker, Jeremy L. Tojeiro, Rita Troup, Nicholas W. Vandenberg, Jan Magaña, Mariana Vargas Viel, Matteo Vogt, Nicole P. Wake, David A. Weaver, Benjamin A. Weinberg, David H. Weiner, Benjamin J. White, Martin White, Simon D. M. Wilson, John C. Wisniewski, John P. Wood-Vasey, W. M. Yèche, Christophe York, Donald G. Zamora, O. Zasowski, Gail Zehavi, Idit Zheng, Zheng Zhu, Guangtun
Publication Year :
2013
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees.<br />Comment: 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names