The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data Release
Creators: name: Buder, Sven
name: Sharma, Sanjib
name: Kos, Janez
name: Amarsi, Anish M.
name: Nordlander, Thomas
name: Lind, Karin
name: Martell, Sarah L.
name: Asplund, Martin
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Casey, Andrew R.
name: De Silva, Gayandhi M.
name: D'Orazi, Valentina
name: Freeman, Ken C.
name: Hayden, Michael R.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Lin, Jane
name: Schlesinger, Katharine J.
name: Simpson, Jeffrey D.
name: Stello, Dennis
name: Zucker, Daniel B.
name: Zwitter, Tomaz
name: Beeson, Kevin L.
name: Buck, Tobias
name: Casagrande, Luca
name: Clark, Jake T.
name: Cotar, Klemen
name: Da Costa, Gary S.
name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Feuillet, Diane
name: Horner, Jonathan
name: Kafle, Prajwal R.
name: Khanna, Shourya
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Liu, Fan
name: Montet, Benjamin T.
name: Nandakumar, Govind
name: Nataf, David M.
name: Ness, Melissa K.
name: Spina, Lorenzo
name: Tepper-Garcia, Thor
name: Ting, Yuan-Sen
name: Traven, Gregor
name: Vogrincic, Rok
name: Wittenmyer, Robert A.
name: Wyse, Rosemary F. G.
name: Zerjal, Marusa
name: collaboration, the GALAH
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ensemble of chemical element abundance measurements for stars, along with precision distances and orbit properties, provides high-dimensional data to study the evolution of the Milky Way. With this third data release of the Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey, we publish 678 423 spectra for 588 571 mostly nearby stars (81.2% of stars are within &lt;2 kpc), observed with the HERMES spectrograph at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This release (hereafter GALAH+ DR3) includes all observations from GALAH Phase 1 (bright, main, and faint survey, 70%), K2-HERMES (17%), TESS-HERMES (5%), and a subset of ancillary observations (8%) including the bulge and &gt;75 stellar clusters. We derive stellar parameters $T_\text{eff}$, $\log g$, [Fe/H], $v_\text{mic}$, $v_\text{broad}$ &amp; $v_\text{rad}$ using our modified version of the spectrum synthesis code Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME) and 1D MARCS model atmospheres. We break spectroscopic degeneracies in our spectrum analysis with astrometry from $Gaia$ DR2 and photometry from 2MASS. We report abundance ratios [X/Fe] for 30 different elements (11 of which are based on non-LTE computations) covering five nucleosynthetic pathways. We describe validations for accuracy and precision, flagging of peculiar stars/measurements and recommendations for using our results. Our catalogue comprises 65% dwarfs, 34% giants, and 1% other/unclassified stars. Based on unflagged chemical composition and age, we find 62% young low-$α$, 9% young high-$α$, 27% old high-$α$, and 2% stars with $\mathrm{[Fe/H]} \leq -1$. Based on kinematics, 4% are halo stars. Several Value-Added-Catalogues, including stellar ages and dynamics, updated after $Gaia$ eDR3, accompany this release and allow chrono-chemodynamic analyses, as we showcase.
description: 48 pages, 27 figures, 5 pages appendix, accepted for publication in MNRAS, comments welcome, GALAH+ DR3 can be found at https://docs.datacentral.org.au/galah/dr3/overview/, Catalogs can be downloaded from https://cloud.datacentral.org.au/teamdata/GALAH/public/GALAH_DR3/