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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Ricardo P. Schiavon  and
Steven R. Majewski
Ricardo P. Schiavon
Affiliation:
Gemini Observatory, 670 N. A'Ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA email: rschiavon@gemini.edu
Steven R. Majewski
Affiliation:
University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400325, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325, USA email: srm4n@virginia.edu
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Abstract

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The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a large scale, high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey of Milky Way stellar populations and one of the four experiments in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). APOGEE will be based on a new multi-fiber cryogenic spectrograph, currently under construction, expected to begin survey observations on the 2.5 m Sloan telescope in the Spring of 2011. APOGEE will measure high-precision radial velocities and elemental abundances for ~15 elements for ~ 105 stars, and is expected to shed new light on the processes that led to the formation of the Galaxy.

Keywords

Stars: abundancesstars: kinematicsGalaxy: abundancesGalaxy: bulgeGalaxy: diskGalaxy: kinematics and dynamicsGalaxy: evolution

References

Allende Prieto, C. et al. 2008, AN, 329, 1018.Google Scholar