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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #168.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,
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The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) is one of three key projects in SDSS-II. SEGUE is in the process of obtaining ugriz imaging of some 3500 square degrees of sky outside of the SDSS-I footprint, with special attention being given to scans of lower galactic latitudes in order to better probe the disk/halo interface in the Galaxy. Over one-third of the imaging has already been completed. SEGUE is also obtaining R = 2000 sectroscopy over the wavelenth range 380 900 nm for 250,000 stars in 200 selected areas over the sky available from Apache Point, New Mexico. The spectroscopic candidates are selected on the basis of ugriz photometry to populate some 16 target categories of stars chosen to explore the nature of the stellar populations in the Galaxy as a function of distance from the Sun (from 0.5 kpc to over 100 kpc).
The SEGUE data clearly require automated analysis tools in order to extract the maximum amount of useful information. In this contribution we describe the development and execution of the SEGUE spectroscopic analysis pipeline, which makes use of multiple approaches (including spectral matching, neural network analysis, line index calculations, etc.) in order to estimate the fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity, and [Fe/H]). These approaches are in the process of being extended to include determinations of other elemental abundances (e.g., C, Na, Mg) that the SDSS spectra probe.
Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/.
Allende Prieto Carlos
Bailer-Jones C. A.
Beers Timothy C.
Lee Young Sam
Norris John. E.
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