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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

Citation:

Ahn CP, Alexandroff R, Allende Prieto C, Anders F, Anderson SF, Anderton T, Andrews BH, Aubourg É, Bailey S, Bastien FA, et al. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. ArXiv e-prints. 2013;1307 :7735.

Abstract:

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from itscurrent incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the firstspectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy EvolutionExperiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the BaryonOscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. TheAPOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrographcovering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying thechemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giantstar candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed threeor more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra(radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, andmetallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number ofBOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxyspectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selectedover 6373.2 square degrees.

Notes:

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

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