THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT

By Christopher P. Ahn, R. Alexandroff, C. Allende Prieto, Friedrich Anders, S. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, B. Andrews, E. Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, F. Bastien and 228 more. 2013

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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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Chemical tagging with APOGEE: Discovery of a large population of N-rich stars in the inner Galaxy (2016, methodology): “Calibrations between the APOGEE and literature abundance scales were performed by Mészáros et al. (2013) on DR10 data (Ahn et al. 2014), whereas, for DR12, a similar procedure was followed, as described by Holtzman et al. (2015).”
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality (2017, methodology): “For stellar mass estimates for each observed galaxy we adopt the Granada FSPS wide SED fit values (Ahn et al. 2014).”
CHEMICAL CARTOGRAPHY WITH APOGEE: METALLICITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF THE MILKY WAY DISK (2015, background): “In-depth discussion of observing and reduction procedures is described in Hayden et al. (2014), the DR10 paper (Ahn et al. 2014), the APOGEE reduction pipeline paper (Nidever et al. 2015), the DR12 calibration paper (Holtzman et al. 2015), the APOGEE linelist paper (Shetrone et al. 2015), the…”
THE QUENCHING OF THE ULTRA-FAINT DWARF GALAXIES IN THE REIONIZATION ERA (2014, methodology): “Photometry was extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 9 (Ahn et al. 2012) or Data Release 10 (Ahn et al. 2014) for each galaxy, and for the particularly sparse UFDs Leo IV and CVn II, we supplemented the SDSS data at faint magnitudes with photometry from Sand et al. (2010) and…”
GALEX–SDSS–WISE LEGACY CATALOG (GSWLC): STAR FORMATION RATES, STELLAR MASSES, AND DUST ATTENUATIONS OF 700,000 LOW-REDSHIFT GALAXIES (2016, methodology): “Selection of SDSS targets is performed on DR10 (Ahn et al. 2014), based on the SpecPhoto table, which combines primary (non-duplicate) photometric objects with primary spectroscopic observations.”
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog (2017, background): “…the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX, Martin et al. 2005) in the far-ultraviolet (λ ∼ 1550Å); the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 (SDSSDR10, Ahn et al. 2014) in the optical (u, g, r, i and z bands); the 2MASS catalog in the near-infrared (J , H and K s bands); the WISE and AKARI…”
The Half Million Quasars (HMQ) Catalogue (2015, methodology): “It lists 22919 SDSS-DR10 quasars as the test data; these quasars were first presented in DR10 so there is no overlap with the training set.”
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues (2015, methodology): “This method is a development of that used for the SDSS DR8 (Aihara et al. 2011), and is explained in further detail in Bolton et al. (2012), and in Ahn et al. (2012, 2014).”