SEGUE: A spectroscopic survey of 240,000 stars with g = 14-20

Brian Yanny; Constance Rockosi; Heidi Jo Newberg; Gillian R. Knapp; Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy; Bonnie Alcorn; Sahar Allam; Carlos Allende Prieto; Deokkeun An; Kurt S.J. Anderson; Scott Anderson; Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones; Steve Bastian; Timothy C. Beers; Eric Bell; Vasily Belokurov; Dmitry Bizyaev; Norm Blythe; John J. Bochanski; William N. Boroski; Jarle Brinchmann; J. Brinkmann; Howard Brewington; Larry Carey; Kyle M. Cudworth; Michael Evans; N. W. Evans; Evalyn Gates; B. T. Gänsicke; Bruce Gillespie; Gerald Gilmore; Ada Nebot Gomez-Moran; Eva K. Grebel; Jim Greenwell; James E. Gunn; Cathy Jordan; Wendell Jordan; Paul Harding; Hugh Harris; John S. Hendry; Diana Holder; Inese I. Ivans; Željko Ivezič; Sebastian Jester; Jennifer A. Johnson; Stephen M. Kent; Scot Kleinman; Alexei Kniazev; Jurek Krzesinski; Richard Kron; Nikolay Kuropatkin; Svetlana Lebedeva; Young Sun Lee; R. French Leger; Sébastien Lépine; Steve Levine; Huan Lin; Daniel C. Long; Craig Loomis; Robert Lupton; Olena Malanushenko; Viktor Malanushenko; Bruce Margon; David Martinez-Delgado; Peregrine McGehee; Dave Monet; Heather L. Morrison; Jeffrey A. Munn; Eric H. Neilsen; Atsuko Nitta; John E. Norris; Dan Oravetz; Russell Owen; Nikhil Padmanabhan; Kaike Pan; R. S. Peterson; Jeffrey R. Pier; Jared Platson; Paola Re Fiorentin; Gordon T. Richards; Hans Walter Rix; David J. Schlegel; Donald P. Schneider; Matthias R. Schreiber; Axel Schwope; Valena Sibley; Audrey Simmons; Stephanie A. Snedden; J. Allyn Smith; Larry Stark; Fritz Stauffer; M. Steinmetz; C. Stoughton; Mark SubbaRao; Alex Szalay; Paula Szkody; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Sivarani Thirupathi; Douglas Tucker; Alan Uomoto; Dan Vanden Berk; Simon Vidrih; Yogesh Wadadekar; Shannon Watters; Ron Wilhelm; Rosemary F.G. Wyse; Jean Yarger; Dan Zucker

doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4377

SEGUE: A spectroscopic survey of 240,000 stars with g = 14-20

Brian Yanny, Constance Rockosi, Heidi Jo Newberg, Gillian R. Knapp, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, Bonnie Alcorn, Sahar Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Deokkeun An, Kurt S.J. Anderson, Scott Anderson, Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones, Steve Bastian, Timothy C. Beers, Eric Bell, Vasily Belokurov, Dmitry Bizyaev, Norm Blythe, John J. Bochanski, William N. BoroskiJarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Howard Brewington, Larry Carey, Kyle M. Cudworth, Michael Evans, N. W. Evans, Evalyn Gates, B. T. Gänsicke, Bruce Gillespie, Gerald Gilmore, Ada Nebot Gomez-Moran, Eva K. Grebel, Jim Greenwell, James E. Gunn, Cathy Jordan, Wendell Jordan, Paul Harding, Hugh Harris, John S. Hendry, Diana Holder, Inese I. Ivans, Željko Ivezič, Sebastian Jester, Jennifer A. Johnson, Stephen M. Kent, Scot Kleinman, Alexei Kniazev, Jurek Krzesinski, Richard Kron, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Steve Levine, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Bruce Margon, David Martinez-Delgado, Peregrine McGehee, Dave Monet, Heather L. Morrison, Jeffrey A. Munn, Eric H. Neilsen, Atsuko Nitta, John E. Norris, Dan Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, R. S. Peterson, Jeffrey R. Pier, Jared Platson, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Hans Walter Rix, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel Schwope, Valena Sibley, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie A. Snedden, J. Allyn Smith, Larry Stark, Fritz Stauffer, M. Steinmetz, C. Stoughton, Mark SubbaRao, Alex Szalay, Paula Szkody, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Sivarani Thirupathi, Douglas Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Dan Vanden Berk, Simon Vidrih, Yogesh Wadadekar, Shannon Watters, Ron Wilhelm, Rosemary F.G. Wyse, Jean Yarger, Dan Zucker

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The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) Survey obtained ≈240,000 moderate-resolution (R ∼ 1800) spectra from 3900 Å to 9000 Å of fainter Milky Way stars (14.0 < g < 20.3) of a wide variety of spectral types, both main-sequence and evolved objects, with the goal of studying the kinematics and populations of our Galaxy and its halo. The spectra are clustered in 212 regions spaced over three quarters of the sky. Radial velocity accuracies for stars are at g < 18, degrading to at g ∼ 20. For stars with signal-to-noise ratio >10 per resolution element, stellar atmospheric parameters are estimated, including metallicity, surface gravity, and effective temperature. SEGUE obtained 3500 deg² of additional ugriz imaging (primarily at low Galactic latitudes) providing precise multicolor photometry (σ(g, r, i) ∼ 2%), (σ(u, z) ∼ 3%) and astrometry (≈0″.1) for spectroscopic target selection. The stellar spectra, imaging data, and derived parameter catalogs for this survey are publicly available as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4377-4399
Number of pages	23
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	137
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4377
State	Published - May 2009

Keywords

Galaxy: halo
Galaxy: stellar content
Galaxy: structure
stars: abundances
stars: fundamental parameters
stars: general

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Yanny, B., Rockosi, C., Newberg, H. J., Knapp, G. R., Adelman-McCarthy, J. K., Alcorn, B., Allam, S., Allende Prieto, C., An, D., Anderson, K. S. J., Anderson, S., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Bastian, S., Beers, T. C., Bell, E., Belokurov, V., Bizyaev, D., Blythe, N., Bochanski, J. J., ... Zucker, D. (2009). SEGUE: A spectroscopic survey of 240,000 stars with g = 14-20. Astronomical Journal, 137(5), 4377-4399. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4377

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AU - Rockosi, Constance

AU - Newberg, Heidi Jo

AU - Knapp, Gillian R.

AU - Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.

AU - Alcorn, Bonnie

AU - Allam, Sahar

AU - Allende Prieto, Carlos

AU - An, Deokkeun

AU - Anderson, Kurt S.J.

AU - Anderson, Scott

AU - Bailer-Jones, Coryn A.L.

AU - Bastian, Steve

AU - Beers, Timothy C.

AU - Bell, Eric

AU - Belokurov, Vasily

AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry

AU - Blythe, Norm

AU - Bochanski, John J.

AU - Boroski, William N.

AU - Brinchmann, Jarle

AU - Brinkmann, J.

AU - Brewington, Howard

AU - Carey, Larry

AU - Cudworth, Kyle M.

AU - Evans, Michael

AU - Evans, N. W.

AU - Gates, Evalyn

AU - Gänsicke, B. T.

AU - Gillespie, Bruce

AU - Gilmore, Gerald

AU - Gomez-Moran, Ada Nebot

AU - Grebel, Eva K.

AU - Greenwell, Jim

AU - Gunn, James E.

AU - Jordan, Cathy

AU - Jordan, Wendell

AU - Harding, Paul

AU - Harris, Hugh

AU - Hendry, John S.

AU - Holder, Diana

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AU - Johnson, Jennifer A.

AU - Kent, Stephen M.

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AU - Kniazev, Alexei

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AU - Kron, Richard

AU - Kuropatkin, Nikolay

AU - Lebedeva, Svetlana

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AU - Leger, R. French

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AU - Schreiber, Matthias R.

AU - Schwope, Axel

AU - Sibley, Valena

AU - Simmons, Audrey

AU - Snedden, Stephanie A.

AU - Smith, J. Allyn

AU - Stark, Larry

AU - Stauffer, Fritz

AU - Steinmetz, M.

AU - Stoughton, C.

AU - SubbaRao, Mark

AU - Szalay, Alex

AU - Szkody, Paula

AU - Thakar, Aniruddha R.

AU - Thirupathi, Sivarani

AU - Tucker, Douglas

AU - Uomoto, Alan

AU - Vanden Berk, Dan

AU - Vidrih, Simon

AU - Wadadekar, Yogesh

AU - Watters, Shannon

AU - Wilhelm, Ron

AU - Wyse, Rosemary F.G.

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