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APOGEE Net: An Expanded Spectral Model of Both Low-mass and High-mass Stars
(American Astronomical Society, 2022-04) Sprague, Dani; Culhane, Connor; Kounkel, Marina; Olney, Richard; Covey, K. R.; Hutchinson, Brian; Lingg, Ryan; Stassun, Keivan G.; Román-Zúñiga, Carlos G.; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Nidever, David; Beaton, Rachael L.; Borissova, Jura; Stutz, Amelia; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Ramírez, Karla Peña; Ramírez-Preciado, Valeria; Hernández, Jesús; Kim, Jinyoung Serena; Lane, Richard R.
We train a convolutional neural network, APOGEE Net, to predict Teff, {log}g, and, for some stars, [Fe/H], based on the APOGEE spectra. This is the first pipeline adapted for these data that is capable of estimating these parameters in a self-consistent manner not only for low-mass stars, (such as main-sequence dwarfs, pre-main-sequence stars, and red giants), but also high-mass stars with Teff in excess of 50,000 K, including hot dwarfs and blue supergiants. The catalog of ∼650,000 stars presented in this paper allows for a detailed investigation of the star-forming history of not just the Milky Way, but also of the Magellanic clouds, as different type of objects tracing different parts of these galaxies can be more cleanly selected through their distinct placement in Teff, {log}g parameter space than in previous APOGEE catalogs produced through different pipelines.
Identifying Sagittarius Stream Stars by Their APOGEE Chemical Abundance Signatures
(2019-02) Hasselquist, Sten; Carlin, Jeffrey L.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Shetrone, Matthew; Hayes, Christian R.; Cunha, Katia; Smith, Verne; Beaton, Rachael L.; Sobeck, Jennifer; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Majewski, Steven R.; Anguiano, Borja; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Lane, Richard R.; Pan, Kaike; Nidever, David L.; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Wilson, John C.; Zamora, Olga
The SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey provides precise chemical abundances of 18 chemical elements for similar to 176,000 red giant stars distributed over much of the Milky Way Galaxy (MW), and includes observations of the core of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr). The APOGEE chemical abundance patterns of Sgr have revealed that it is chemically distinct from the MW in most chemical elements. We employ a k-means clustering algorithm to six-dimensional chemical space defined by [(C+N)/Fe], [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe], [Al/Fe], [Mn/Fe], and [Ni/Fe] to identify 62 MW stars in the APOGEE sample that have Sgr-like chemical abundances. Of the 62 stars, 35 have Gaia kinematics and positions consistent with those predicted by N-body simulations of the Sgr stream, and are likely stars that have been stripped from Sgr during the last two pericenter passages (<2 Gyr ago). Another 20 of the 62 stars exhibit chemical abundances indistinguishable from the Sgr stream stars, but are on highly eccentric orbits with median r(apo) similar to 25 kpc. These stars are likely the "accreted" halo population thought to be the result of a separate merger with the MW 8-11 Gyr ago. We also find one hypervelocity star candidate. We conclude that Sgr was enriched to [Fe/H] similar to -0.2 before its most recent pericenter passage. If the "accreted halo" population is from one major accretion event, then this progenitor galaxy was enriched to at least [Fe/H] similar to -0.6, and had a similar star formation history to Sgr before merging.