Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

Hongliang Yan; Haining Li; Song Wang; Weikai Zong; Haibo Yuan; Maosheng Xiang; Yang Huang; Jiwei Xie; Subo Dong; Hailong Yuan; Shaolan Bi; Yaoquan Chu; Xiangqun Cui; Licai Deng; Jianning Fu; Zhanwen Han; Jinliang Hou; Guoping Li; Chao Liu; Jifeng Liu; Xiaowei Liu; Ali Luo; Jianrong Shi; Xuebing Wu; Haotong Zhang; Gang Zhao; Yongheng Zhao

doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100224

Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

Innovation (Camb). 2022 Mar 8;3(2):100224. doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100224. eCollection 2022 Mar 29.

Authors

Hongliang Yan^{1

2}, Haining Li¹, Song Wang¹, Weikai Zong³, Haibo Yuan³, Maosheng Xiang⁴, Yang Huang⁵, Jiwei Xie^{6

7}, Subo Dong⁸, Hailong Yuan¹, Shaolan Bi³, Yaoquan Chu⁹, Xiangqun Cui^{10

11}, Licai Deng¹, Jianning Fu³, Zhanwen Han¹², Jinliang Hou^{2

13}, Guoping Li^{10

11}, Chao Liu^{2

14}, Jifeng Liu^{1

2

15}, Xiaowei Liu⁵, Ali Luo¹, Jianrong Shi^{1

2}, Xuebing Wu^{8

16}, Haotong Zhang¹, Gang Zhao^{1

2}, Yongheng Zhao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing 100101, China.
² School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
⁴ Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵ South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
⁶ School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
⁸ Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
⁹ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
¹⁰ National Astronomical Observatories/Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210042, China.
¹¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Nanjing 210042, China.
¹² Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China.
¹³ Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China.
¹⁴ Key Laboratory of Space Astronomy and Technology, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing 100101, China.
¹⁵ WHU-NAOC Joint Center for Astronomy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
¹⁶ Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Abstract

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research located in Xinglong, China. Beginning with a pilot survey in 2011, LAMOST has been surveying the night sky for more than 10 years. The LAMOST survey covers various objects in the Universe, from normal stars to peculiar ones, from the Milky Way to other galaxies, and from stellar black holes and their companions to quasars that ignite ancient galaxies. Until the latest data release 8, the LAMOST survey has released spectra for more than 10 million stars, ∼220,000 galaxies, and ∼71,000 quasars. With this largest celestial spectra database ever constructed, LAMOST has helped astronomers to deepen their understanding of the Universe, especially for our Milky Way galaxy and the millions of stars within it. In this article, we briefly review the characteristics, observations, and scientific achievements of LAMOST. In particular, we show how astrophysical knowledge about the Milky Way has been improved by LAMOST data.

Keywords: LAMOST; Milky Way; black holes; spectroscopic survey; stars.

Publication types

Review