| 1 | Star selected in faint bin1 of its cohort (APOGEE_FAINT) |
| 2 | Star selected in medium bin1 of its of cohort (APOGEE_MEDIUM) |
| 4 | Star selected in bright bin1 of its cohort (APOGEE_BRIGHT) |
| 8 | Selected w/ RJCE-IRAC dereddening (APOGEE_IRAC_DERED) |
| 16 | Selected w/ RJCE-WISE dereddening (APOGEE_WISE_DERED) |
| 32 | Selected w/ SFD dereddening (APOGEE_SFD_DERED) |
| 64 | Selected w/ no dereddening (APOGEE_NO_DERED) |
| 128 | Selected as giant star using Washington photometry (APOGEE_WASH_GIANT) |
| 256 | Selected as dwarf star using Washington photometry (APOGEE_WASH_DWARF) |
| 512 | Selected as probable cluster member (APOGEE_SCI_CLUSTER) |
| 1024 | Extended object (APOGEE_EXTENDED) |
| 2048 | Selected as 'short' ( 3-visit) cohort target (APOGEE_SHORT) |
| 4096 | Selected as 'intermediate' ( 6-visit) cohort target (APOGEE_INTERMEDIATE) |
| 8192 | Selected as 'long' ( 12- or 14-visit) cohort target (APOGEE_LONG) |
| 16384 | Do not observe (again) - undesired dwarf, galaxy, etc (APOGEE_DO_NOT_OBSERVE) |
| 32768 | Serendipitous interesting target to re-observe (APOGEE_SERENDIPITOUS) |
| 65536 | First Light plate target (APOGEE_FIRST_LIGHT) |
| 131072 | Ancillary target (APOGEE_ANCILLARY) |
| 262144 | M31 clusters; Allende Prieto, Schiavon, Bizyaev, OConnell, Shetrone (APOGEE_M31_CLUSTER) |
| 524288 | RVs of M dwarfs; Blake, Mahadevan, Hearty, Deshpande, Nidever, Bender, Crepp, Carlberg, Terrien, Schneider - both original list and second-round extension (APOGEE_MDWARF) |
| 1048576 | Stars with optical hi-res spectra; Fabbian, Allende Prieto, Smith, Cunha (APOGEE_HIRES) |
| 2097152 | Oldest stars in Galaxy; Harding, Johnson (APOGEE_OLD_STAR) |
| 4194304 | Ages/Compositions? of disk red giant stars; Johnson, Epstein, Pinsonneault, Lai, Bird, Schonrich, Chiappini (APOGEE_DISK_RED_GIANT) |
| 8388608 | Kepler Eclipsing binaries; Mahadevan, Fleming, Bender, Deshpande, Hearty, Nidever, Terrien (APOGEE_KEPLER_EB) |
| 16777216 | Globular cluster pops in the MW; Simmerer, Ivans, Shetrone (APOGEE_GC_PAL1) |
| 33554432 | Massive stars in th MW; Herrero, Garcia-Garcia, Ramirez-Alegria (APOGEE_MASSIVE_STAR) |
| 67108864 | Sagittarius dwarf galaxy member (APOGEE_SGR_DSPH) |
| 134217728 | Kepler astroseismology program target; Epstein (APOGEE_KEPLER_SEISMO) |
| 268435456 | Kepler planet-host program target; Epstein (APOGEE_KEPLER_HOST) |
| 536870912 | Selected as 'faint' target in low-target-density fields (APOGEE_FAINT_EXTRA) |
| 1073741824 | Overlap with SEGUE survey (APOGEE_SEGUE_OVERLAP) |
| 2147483648 |