Today Christina Eilers (MIT) updated Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA) and me on our project to self-calibrate the element-abundance measurements in APOGEE. We are looking at self-consistency of the abundance distribution as a function of actions; in a well-mixed Galaxy this could be used to calibrate the biases of the abundance measurements with surface gravity (a known effect in the data) and spectral resolution (a possible effect). Eilers has beautiful results: The abundances get better and the abundance gradients in the Galaxy (with radius or azimuthal action, and with vertical height or vertical action) become more clear and more sensible. So we have a paper to write!
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