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  • Zasowski, G; Cohen, R E; Chojnowski, S D; Santana, F; Oelkers, R J; Andrews, B; Beaton, R L; Bender, C; Bird, J C; Bovy, J; Carlberg, J K; Covey, K; Cunha, K; Dell'Agli, F; Fleming, S W; Frinchaboy, P M; Garcia-Hernandez, D A; Harding, P; Holtzman, J; Johnson, J A; Kollmeier, J A; Majewski, S R; Meszaros, Sz; Munn, J; Munoz, R R; Ness, M K; Nidever, D L; Poleski, R; C Roman Zuniga; Shetrone, M; Simon, J D; Smith, V V; Sobeck, J S; Stringfellow, G S; Szigetiaros, L; Tayar, J; Troup, N

    arXiv.org, 09/2017
    Paper, Journal Article

    APOGEE-2 is a high-resolution, near-infrared spectroscopic survey observing roughly 300,000 stars across the entire sky. It is the successor to APOGEE and is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). APOGEE-2 is expanding upon APOGEE's goals of addressing critical questions of stellar astrophysics, stellar populations, and Galactic chemodynamical evolution using (1) an enhanced set of target types and (2) a second spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. APOGEE-2 is targeting red giant branch (RGB) and red clump (RC) stars, RR Lyrae, low-mass dwarf stars, young stellar objects, and numerous other Milky Way and Local Group sources across the entire sky from both hemispheres. In this paper, we describe the APOGEE-2 observational design, target selection catalogs and algorithms, and the targeting-related documentation included in the SDSS data releases.