| 1 | Star selected in faint bin of cohort (APOGEE_FAINT) |
| 2 | Star selected in medium bin of cohort (APOGEE_MEDIUM) |
| 4 | Star selected in bright bin of cohort (APOGEE_BRIGHT) |
| 8 | Star selected using RJCE-IRAC dereddening (APOGEE_IRAC_DERED) |
| 16 | Star selected using RJCE-WISE dereddening (APOGEE_WISE_DERED) |
| 32 | Selected using SFD E(B-V) dereddening (APOGEE_SFD_DERED) |
| 64 | Star selected using no dereddening (APOGEE_NO_DERED) |
| 128 | Selected as giant star via Washington+DDO51 photometry (APOGEE_WASH_GIANT) |
| 256 | Selected as dwarf star via Washington+DDO51 photometry (APOGEE_WASH_DWARF) |
| 512 | Probable stellar cluster member (APOGEE_SCI_CLUSTER) |
| 1024 | Extended object (APOGEE_EXTENDED) |
| 2048 | Short cohort target star (APOGEE_SHORT) |
| 4096 | Intermediate cohort target star (APOGEE_INTERMEDIATE) |
| 8192 | Long cohort target star (APOGEE_LONG) |
| 16384 | |
| 32768 | Serendipitous interesting target to re-observe (APOGEE_SERENDIPITOUS) |
| 65536 | 'First Light' cluster target (APOGEE_FIRST_LIGHT) |
| 131072 | An ancillary program target (particular program specified in other bits) (APOGEE_ANCILLARY) |
| 262144 | M31 cluster target (ancillary) (APOGEE_M31_CLUSTER) |
| 524288 | M dwarf star selected for RV/metallicity program (ancillary) (APOGEE_MDWARF) |
| 1048576 | Star with optical hi-res spectra (ancillary) (APOGEE_HIRES) |
| 2097152 | Selected as old star (ancillary) (APOGEE_OLD_STAR) |
| 4194304 | Disk red giant star (ancillary) (APOGEE_DISK_RED_GIANT) |
| 8388608 | Eclipsing binary star from Kepler (ancillary) (APOGEE_KEPLER_EB) |
| 16777216 | Star in Pal1 globular cluster (ancillary) (APOGEE_GC_PAL1) |
| 33554432 | Massive star (ancillary) (APOGEE_MASSIVE_STAR) |
| 67108864 | Sagittarius dwarf galaxy member (APOGEE_SGR_DSPH) |
| 134217728 | Kepler astroseismology program target star (APOGEE_KEPLER_SEISMO) |
| 268435456 | Kepler planet-host program target star (APOGEE_KEPLER_HOST) |
| 536870912 | Selected as faint target for low target density field (APOGEE_FAINT_EXTRA) |
| 1073741824 | Selected because of overlap with SEGUE survey (APOGEE_SEGUE_OVERLAP) |
| 2147483648 | This object was checked for APOGEE target selection (APOGEE_CHECKED) |