Introduction to apogee

The apogee package comprises a wide range of routines related to the reduction and analysis of APOGEE data. It comprises several different components that were previously located in separate SDSS SVN packages:

• routines related to the realtime collection of data (SVN apgquicklook)
• routines related to the reduction of APOGEE data (SVN apogeereduce)
• routines related to the creation of synthetic spectra and the bundling of these

spectra into libraries for use with FERRE (SVN speclib) - routines that run the spectral parameter and abundance analysis (ASPCAP) pipeline (SVN idlwrap) - the FERRE program that interpolates within the spectral grids and finds the best solution given input spectra and uncertainties