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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 211, Issue 2, article id. 17, 16 pp. (2014).
Description
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 μm. 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 deg2.
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