LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (LEGUE) — The survey's science plan

• Published in: Research in astronomy and astrophysics Vol. 12; no. 7; pp. 735 - 754
• Main Authors: Deng, Li-Cai, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Liu, Chao, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Beers, Timothy C., Chen, Li, Chen, Yu-Qin, Christlieb, Norbert, Grillmair, Carl J., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Han, Zhan-Wen, Hou, Jin-Liang, Lee, Hsu-Tai, Lépine, Sébastien, Li, Jing, Liu, Xiao-Wei, Pan, Kai-Ke, Sellwood, J. A., Wang, Bo, Wang, Hong-Chi, Yang, Fan, Yanny, Brian, Zhang, Hao-Tong, Zhang, Yue-Yang, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Zi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Key Lab for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, Chin%Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA%Key Lab for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China%National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA%Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China%University of Heidelberg, Landessternwarte, K(o)nigstuhl 12, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany%Spitzer Science Center, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA%Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA%Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China%Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, China%American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024,USA%Key Lab for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China 01.07.2012; School of Physics and Electronic Information, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637000, China%Department of Astronomy & Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China%Apache Point Observatory, PO Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA%Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen Road,Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA%Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China%Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510, USA%Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA%School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
• Subjects: halo-spectroscopy; spectroscopic-Galaxy; kinematics and dynamics-Galaxy; techniques; disk-Galaxy; evolution-Galaxy; structure-Galaxy

P156%P129; We describe the current plans for a spectroscopic survey of millions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy using the Guo Shou Jing Telescope(GSJT,formerly called the Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope-LAMOST).The survey will obtain spectra for 2.5 million stars brighter...