Final Targeting Strategy for the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2S Survey
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Santana, Felipe A.
Beaton, Rachael L.
Covey, Kevin R.
O'Connell, Julia E.
Longa-Pena, Penelope
Cohen, Roger
Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.
Hayes, Christian R.
Zasowski, Gail
Sobeck, Jennifer S.
Majewski, Steven R.
Chojnowski, S. D.
De Lee, Nathan
Oelkers, Ryan J.
Stringfellow, Guy S.
Almeida, Andres
Anguiano, Borja
Donor, John
Frinchaboy, Peter M.
Hasselquist, Sten
Johnson, Jennifer A.
Kollmeier, Juna A.
Nidever, David L.
Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
Rojas-Arriagada, Alvaro
Schultheis, Mathias
Shetrone, Matthew
Simon, Joshua D.
Aerts, Conny
Borissova, Jura
Drout, Maria R.
Geisler, Doug
Law, C. Y.
Medina, Nicolas
Minniti, Dante
Monachesi, Antonela
Munoz, Ricardo R.
Poleski, Radoslaw
Roman-Lopes, Alexandre
Schlaufman, Kevin C.
Stutz, Amelia M.
Teske, Johanna
Tkachenko, Andrew
Van Saders, Jennifer L.
Weinberger, Alycia J.
Zoccali, Manuela
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2cbc
Abstract
APOGEE is a high-resolution (R similar to 22,000), near-infrared, multi-epoch, spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. The second generation of the APOGEE project, APOGEE-2, includes an expansion of the survey to the Southern Hemisphere called APOGEE-2S. This expansion enabled APOGEE to perform a fully panoramic mapping of all of the main regions of the Milky Way; in particular, by operating in the H band, APOGEE is uniquely able to probe the dust-hidden inner regions of the Milky Way that are best accessed from the Southern Hemisphere. In this paper we present the targeting strategy of APOGEE-2S, with special attention to documenting modifications to the original, previously published plan. The motivation for these changes is explained as well as an assessment of their effectiveness in achieving their intended scientific objective. In anticipation of this being the last paper detailing APOGEE targeting, we present an accounting of all such information complete through the end of the APOGEE-2S project; this includes several main survey programs dedicated to exploration of major stellar populations and regions of the Milky Way, as well as a full list of programs contributing to the APOGEE database through allocations of observing time by the Chilean National Time Allocation Committee and the Carnegie Institution for Science. This work was presented along with a companion article, Beaton et al. (2021), presenting the final target selection strategy adopted for APOGEE-2 in the Northern Hemisphere.


