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SEGUE: A SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF 240,000 STARS WITH g = 14-20

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Brian Yanny1, Constance Rockosi2, Heidi Jo Newberg3, Gillian R. Knapp4, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy1, Bonnie Alcorn1, Sahar Allam1, Carlos Allende Prieto5,6, Deokkeun An7, Kurt S. J. Anderson8,9, Scott Anderson10, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones11, Steve Bastian1, Timothy C. Beers12, Eric Bell11, Vasily Belokurov13, Dmitry Bizyaev8, Norm Blythe8, John J. Bochanski10, William N. Boroski1, Jarle Brinchmann14, J. Brinkmann8, Howard Brewington8, Larry Carey10, Kyle M. Cudworth15, Michael Evans10, N. W. Evans13, Evalyn Gates15, B. T. Gänsicke16, Bruce Gillespie8, Gerald Gilmore13, Ada Nebot Gomez-Moran17, Eva K. Grebel18, Jim Greenwell10, James E. Gunn4, Cathy Jordan8, Wendell Jordan8, Paul Harding19, Hugh Harris20, John S. Hendry1, Diana Holder8, Inese I. Ivans4, Željko Ivezič10, Sebastian Jester11, Jennifer A. Johnson7, Stephen M. Kent1, Scot Kleinman8, Alexei Kniazev11, Jurek Krzesinski8, Richard Kron15, Nikolay Kuropatkin1, Svetlana Lebedeva1, Young Sun Lee12, R. French Leger1, Sébastien Lépine21, Steve Levine20, Huan Lin1, Daniel C. Long8, Craig Loomis4, Robert Lupton4, Olena Malanushenko8, Viktor Malanushenko8, Bruce Margon22, David Martinez-Delgado11, Peregrine McGehee23, Dave Monet20, Heather L. Morrison19, Jeffrey A. Munn20, Eric H. Neilsen Jr1, Atsuko Nitta8, John E. Norris24, Dan Oravetz8, Russell Owen10, Nikhil Padmanabhan25, Kaike Pan8, R. S. Peterson1, Jeffrey R. Pier20, Jared Platson1, Paola Re Fiorentin11,26, Gordon T. Richards27, Hans-Walter Rix11, David J. Schlegel25, Donald P. Schneider28, Matthias R. Schreiber29, Axel Schwope17, Valena Sibley1, Audrey Simmons8, Stephanie A. Snedden8, J. Allyn Smith30, Larry Stark10, Fritz Stauffer8, M. Steinmetz17, C. Stoughton1, Mark SubbaRao15,31, Alex Szalay32, Paula Szkody10, Aniruddha R. Thakar32, Sivarani Thirupathi12, Douglas Tucker1, Alan Uomoto33, Dan Vanden Berk28, Simon Vidrih18, Yogesh Wadadekar4,34, Shannon Watters8, Ron Wilhelm35, Rosemary F. G. Wyse32, Jean Yarger8 and Dan Zucker13

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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 $\sigma (\rm RV) \sim 4 \:\rm km\; s^{-1}$ at g < 18, degrading to $\sigma (\rm RV) \sim 15\rm \:km\; s^{-1}$ 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 (≈0farcs1) 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.


Keywords

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


Dates

Issue 5 (2009 May)

Received 2008 September 29, accepted for publication 2009 February 8

Published 2009 April 7



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