Installation

Dependencies

• astropy
• astroquery
• emcee
• numpy
• matplotlib
• pandas
• PyAstronomy
• scipy

APOGEE Data Setup

Create a new directory to store your data files:

$ mkdir apogee_data/

Then download the APOGEE data info file for DR14:

$ cd apogee_data/

$ wget https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr14/apogee/spectro/redux/r8/allStar-l31c.2.fits --no-check-certificate
$ wget https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr14/apogee/spectro/redux/r8/allVisit-l31c.2.fits --no-check-certificate

Download the apogee_tools code and then set up the following environmental variables in your .bash_profile or .bashrc:

export PATH=$PATH:'/Users/path_to/apogee_tools'
export APOGEE_DATA=/Users/path_to/apogee_data