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This paper argues that the standard LTE assumption in modeling APOGEE H-band spectra of red giants introduces systematic abundance errors of about 0.1 dex for aluminum, manganese, and titanium, and provides NLTE-corrected abundances for 360

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arxiv 2607.22499 v1 pith:NKINRZ3K submitted 2026-07-24 astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GA

Payne4GAIN: NLTE Corrections for Red Giants in Milky Way Mapper using H-Band Neural Network Emulators

Pierre Thibodeaux , Alexander P. Ji , Nicholas Storm , Maria Bergemann , Rana Ezzeddine , Yuan-sen Ting , Andrew R. Casey , Emily Griffith
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Jos\'e Fern\'andez-Trincado Guilherme Limberg Szabolcs M\'esz\'aros Amaya Sinha Danny Horta Andrew K. Saydjari Joel Brownstein
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This paper argues that the standard LTE assumption in modeling APOGEE H-band spectra of red giants introduces systematic abundance errors of about 0.1 dex for aluminum, manganese, and titanium, and provides NLTE-corrected abundances for 360,451 stars.

Core claim

The central claim is that non-LTE (NLTE) effects in the H-band (15,000–17,000 Å) spectra of red giants are not negligible: for Al I lines, NLTE abundances are lower than LTE by 0.2–0.3 dex; for Ti I and Mn I, they are higher by 0.1–0.2 dex; smaller effects exist for Si and Ni. The paper establishes this by fitting the same spectra with two neural network emulators that differ only in whether NLTE physics is included, so the abundance differences isolate the NLTE contribution. The authors provide a value-added catalog of NLTE-corrected abundances for 360,451 stars and explicitly recommend against using their sodium corrections, which are unreliable.

What carries the argument

The key mechanism is a pair of neural network emulators (the Payne4GAIN method) trained on ~15,000–18,000 synthetic spectra generated with a radiative-transfer code using MARCS model atmospheres and the APOGEE line list. The NLTE emulator incorporates precomputed departure coefficients for eight elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Mn, Ni) from statistical-equilibrium calculations. Because the two emulators are identical except for the presence of NLTE physics, taking the difference of their best-fit abundances for each star isolates the NLTE correction as a function of stellar parameters.

Load-bearing premise

The line list's oscillator strengths were empirically tuned to match the Sun and Arcturus under the LTE assumption; if those LTE-tuned values are biased when used in NLTE synthesis, the derived 'NLTE corrections' partly absorb line-list errors rather than real non-LTE physics.

What would settle it

A direct test would be to apply the NLTE corrections to a sample of red giants with independently derived abundances from high-resolution optical NLTE analyses and check whether the corrected APOGEE abundances remove the temperature- and gravity-dependent trends; if the trends persist or the corrections disagree with the optical values by more than the quoted uncertainties, the corrections are not capturing true NLTE effects.

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If this is right

  • If correct, ASPCAP's published Al abundances for red giants are systematically too high by ~0.2 dex, which would revise interpretations of galactic chemical evolution and the origin of the high-α and low-α disk sequences.
  • NLTE-corrected Ti and Mn abundances are higher by ~0.1–0.2 dex, potentially flattening or inverting observed [Ti/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] trends and changing inferences about nucleosynthesis yields.
  • The corrections lessen the spurious temperature dependence of [Al/Fe], [Ca/Fe], [Mn/Fe], and [Ni/Fe] in open clusters, suggesting that some reported abundance-temperature trends in APOGEE are artifacts of LTE.
  • The method demonstrates that neural network emulators can efficiently apply NLTE corrections to hundreds of thousands of survey spectra, providing a template for future data releases.
  • Sodium NLTE corrections are unreliable and should not be used; distinguishing real physics from line-list artifacts for weak Na lines remains a challenge.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The discrepancy between the paper's LTE fits and ASPCAP for Ti — attributed to differing treatment of Ti I and Ti II — suggests that full-spectrum NLTE fitting may be more physically consistent than ASPCAP's windowed approach; this could be tested by comparing against optical Ti abundances.
  • The recommended usage ranges in Table 4 imply the corrections are untested at [X/H] < -2 and logg < 1; extending departure-coefficient grids to cover the full red giant branch would make the catalog universally applicable.
  • NLTE reduces but does not eliminate temperature dependencies for some elements, hinting that residual 3D hydrodynamic effects or LTE-tuned line-list errors remain; combining NLTE with 3D model atmospheres is a logical next step.
  • Since the corrections are wavelength-specific (H-band), applying them to abundances derived from optical spectra would be inappropriate; users should match the bandpass when applying these offsets.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper presents Payne4GAIN (P4G), two neural-network emulators for H-band APOGEE spectra: one trained on LTE Turbospectrum/MARCS syntheses and one trained on NLTE syntheses for eight elements (Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Mn, Ni). The LTE grid contains ~18,300 spectra and the NLTE grid ~15,500 spectra spanning 15 stellar labels. The authors fit 360,451 MWM DR19 red giants with both emulators, compare abundances, and derive polynomial NLTE-LTE corrections as functions of Teff, logg, and [X/H] (Table 2). These corrections are applied to raw ASPCAP abundances and released as a DR20 value-added catalog. The headline result is that NLTE effects are strong for Al, Mn, and Ti (roughly 0.1 dex or more) and smaller for Si and Ni.

Significance. If correct, this is the first large-scale NLTE treatment of H-band abundances for the MWM/APOGEE red-giant sample, and the released corrections would be of immediate value to the ~360,000 users of the survey. The manuscript has real strengths: the LTE NNE is validated against approximately 3,000 independent Turbospectrum LTE spectra (Section 3.1); the LTE fits are compared with ASPCAP over the full label space; the NLTE-LTE differences are anchored to independent line-by-line studies (Zhang et al. 2016, 2017; Zhou et al. 2019, 2023; Osorio et al. 2020; Amarsi et al. 2020); and the catalog, code, and derived polynomial corrections are public. The OCCAM open-cluster test (Section 4.4) is a useful falsifiable check of whether NLTE corrections remove spurious Teff trends. However, the central claim currently rests on the accuracy of the NLTE emulator, which is not directly validated anywhere in the paper. This is a correctable gap, but it is load-bearing for the quoted 0.1-0.3 dex corrections.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 2.1] The abstract states that the NNEs are verified as accurate before fitting, and the headline numbers are differences between the P4G LTE and P4G NLTE fits. Yet only the LTE NNE is validated against independent Turbospectrum spectra. Figure 4's caption asserts 'The losses for the NLTE NNE are similar' without showing any NLTE comparison, and no error-versus-parameter map or end-to-end abundance-recovery test is provided for the NLTE NNE. Given that the NLTE training grid is smaller (15,500/20,000 successes), has coverage holes at low [Fe/H] (Fig. 2), and the model must interpolate sharp departure-coefficient variations, a systematic NLTE NNE error of 0.01-0.02 in normalized line-core flux would translate to a nontrivial fraction of the quoted 0.1-0.3 dex corrections. The authors should add a direct NLTE NNE versus Turbospectrum NLTE comparison on held-out labels, including error maps in (T
  2. [Section 2.1] The APOGEE line list was empirically tuned in LTE, and the paper states that 'adding NLTE may result in some systematically biased line syntheses.' The same gf values enter both LTE and NLTE syntheses, so for weak lines the gf tuning partially cancels in the NLTE-LTE difference. But the elements with the largest claimed corrections (Al, Ti, Mn) are derived from lines that are not necessarily weak in the H-band, and blends and molecular features are also involved. The same section also describes an approximate line-state matching procedure to the model atoms, with only 3 lines per element checked manually. This is a second source of NLTE-specific error that does not cancel in the difference. The authors should quantify the sensitivity: e.g., repeat a subset of fits with perturbed gf values or with manually matched states, or show that the corrections are stable when derived from disjoint
  3. [Section 4.2 / Table 2] The polynomial corrections are the actual product recommended to users, but Table 2 gives no uncertainties on the coefficients or on the predicted corrections, and the polynomial orders are only described as 'hand-selected.' Section 4.2 also notes that below [X/H] ~ -2 the corrections are extrapolations. Without error bars or a validation of the polynomial form against held-out NNE points (or against the star-by-star scatter shown in Figs. 8-9), users cannot know whether a 0.1 dex correction is significant relative to the fitting noise. At minimum, the paper should provide bootstrap or covariance-based uncertainties for Table 2 and a statement of which regions are extrapolation rather than interpolation. This is important because the paper itself recommends the polynomial-smoothed corrections over the direct P4G fits.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Section 1] Typo: 'up-tp-date' should be 'up-to-date.'
  2. [Section 4.3] Typo: 'callibration' should be 'calibration'; also 'SNSM' in the text should be 'SMSN'.
  3. [Figure 4 caption] The caption states that the NLTE NNE losses are similar, but no plot is shown. Either include the actual comparison or remove the unsupported claim.
  4. [Table 2] The polynomial notation is difficult to parse (e.g., '1T T2 T3 L L2 L3 X X2 X3'). Please provide the explicit functional form, including any cross-terms, so users can reproduce the corrections from the table alone.
  5. [Section 5.7] The sentence 'NLTE has a similar magnitude effect on infrared Mn abundances as on optical Si' appears to compare Mn to Si; presumably it should read 'optical Mn.' Please clarify.
  6. [Table 1] The Teff range is given as '~3500-~5900' with a note that it is a function of logg. Please make the exact boundary explicit, since Figure 1 shows a strongly curved boundary and this determines which stars are included in the VAC.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; NLTE corrections are empirical differences between two emulators anchored to independent literature, with validation gaps that are correctness risks rather than circular reductions.

full rationale

We inspected the derivation chain: LTE and NLTE synthetic spectra are generated with Turbospectrum using the same APOGEE line list and, for NLTE, precomputed MULTI departure coefficients from published model-atom papers; two Payne NNEs are trained on these spectra; the same ~360k spectra are fit with both; the headline NLTE corrections are the per-star label differences, smoothed by polynomials (Section 4.2). This is an empirical measurement, not a first-principles derivation, and it does not reduce to its own inputs by construction: the NLTE physics is present in the training spectra through the departure coefficients, not in the fitted emulator parameters. Independent anchors exist (Section 4.5: Zhang+16/17, Zhou+19/23, Osorio+20; Section 5 qualitative agreement with Amarsi+20), and the zero-point discussion uses DR19 calibrations. The paper's own caveats — LTE-tuned line list (Section 2.1), approximate line-to-atom matching (Section 2.1), the unvalidated NLTE NNE (Fig. 4 caption: 'The losses for the NLTE NNE are similar'), and unexplained Kiel-diagram artifacts (Section 4.1) — are real limitations and correctness risks, but none exhibits a load-bearing step that is definitionally equivalent to an input or a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction. Heavy use of self-citations for model atoms and departure coefficients is normal prior-work reliance; those grids are published independently of this analysis and are not fit to the target data. Per the proportionality rule, no circular step warrants a score above 2; we set 1 to acknowledge the unvalidated NLTE emulator without treating it as circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 8 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central result rests on external model ingredients (departure coefficients, MARCS atmospheres, APOGEE line list) and on a set of fitting choices. The paper is transparent about most of these; the polynomial corrections are the main fitted component.

free parameters (3)
  • NLTE correction polynomial coefficients (Table 2) = e.g., Al: -0.25 (constant), -0.15*T ... ; 8 elements, coefficients up to cubic
    Fit to per-star NLTE-LTE abundance differences from the two NNs; these coefficients are the actual correction delivered to users.
  • Polynomial order per element = 0-3 (hand-selected)
    'The order of the polynomials were hand-selected to be small enough while capturing the parameter-dependent behavior' (Section 4.2).
  • Arcturus-based pixel mask threshold = 0.02 in normalized flux
    Chosen to mask linelist/continuum imperfections; affects which pixels are fit (Section 2.3).
axioms (8)
  • domain assumption 1D MARCS model atmospheres provide a valid atmospheric structure for red giants.
    Used as the base for all LTE and NLTE syntheses (Section 2.1); if 3D or hydrodynamic effects matter, corrections shift.
  • domain assumption Precomputed MULTI departure coefficients for Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Mn, Ni are accurate and complete for H-band lines.
    Adopted from earlier work (Ezzeddine+18; Bergemann+17; etc., Section 2.1); the paper does not recompute them.
  • domain assumption The approximate line-state matching routine maps APOGEE lines to correct model-atom states.
    Matching is 'necessarily approximate' and checked on only 3 lines per element (Section 2.1).
  • domain assumption LTE-tuned oscillator strengths can be combined with NLTE departure coefficients without re-tuning.
    Explicitly flagged as a limitation: 'adding NLTE may result in some systematically biased line syntheses' (Section 2.1).
  • domain assumption Trace-element approximation: each element's NLTE populations do not affect atmospheric structure or other elements.
    Footnote 2 in Section 2.1 states each element is calculated independently and assumed not to affect other elements.
  • domain assumption LTE for Fe and for the model atmosphere; [Fe/H] is kept in LTE.
    NLTE Fe is excluded because the model atom is incomplete for IR lines (Section 2.1); all methods use LTE [Fe/H].
  • domain assumption The neural network emulator generalizes accurately within the training grid.
    Validated for LTE against Turbospectrum (Figs 3-4) but not directly for NLTE: 'The losses for the NLTE NNE are similar' without a shown figure.
  • ad hoc to paper The polynomial form captures the true parameter dependence of NLTE corrections.
    Orders are 'hand-selected' (Section 4.2); no model comparison or cross-validation is reported.

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The majority of spectroscopic surveys assume local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) during the modeling of stellar spectra. This assumption begins to break down for luminous stars, like the red giants targeted by SDSS-V's Milky Way Mapper Survey in its Galactic Genesis program. In this work, we present non-LTE (NLTE) abundances for 360,000 red giant stars in Milky Way Mapper DR19, from infrared APOGEE spectra. We generate NLTE spectra using precomputed departure coefficient grids for Na, Mg, Si, Al, Ca, Ti, Mn, and Ni. To fit APOGEE spectra at scale, we train neural network emulators (NNEs) to synthesize LTE and NLTE H-band spectra. After verifying that the NNEs are accurate, we fit the APOGEE spectra with ASPCAP results that fall within the same parameter range as the training data. We find strong NLTE effects on the order of 0.1\,dex for Al, Mn, and Ti, and smaller effects for Si and Ni. We provide a catalog of the results of our LTE and NLTE fits, as well as NLTE-corrected ASPCAP abundances using a polynomial fit correction.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.22499 by Alexander P. Ji, Amaya Sinha, Andrew K. Saydjari, Andrew R. Casey, Danny Horta, Emily Griffith, Guilherme Limberg, Joel Brownstein, Jos\'e Fern\'andez-Trincado, Maria Bergemann, Nicholas Storm, Pierre Thibodeaux, Rana Ezzeddine, Szabolcs M\'esz\'aros, Yuan-Sen Ting.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: — The Kiel diagram and the [α/Fe] vs [Fe/H] plot using the ASPCAP DR19 parameters. All values displayed here are raw, before calibration. The red shaded box indicates the range of the training inputs to our Paynes. We identify [α/Fe] with [Mg/Fe] for our NN for this plot. est metallicities (< −2.0) around log g ∼ 0, where the MARCS models fail to converge. This is the primary reason that our analysis ends … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: — The success rate of NLTE spectra generation by Turbospectrum, over the 20,000 desired spectra for our training. The region around Teff = 4500 K, log g = 3.5 comes from missing MARCS models at low metallicities, and accounts for the missing LTE spectra. The other regions where NLTE spectra had trouble generating were from missing NLTE departure coefficients at low metallicities. 10 3 10 2 10 1 flux = |TS … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: — The median and 90th percentile L1 losses the LTE NNE, compared to a set of ∼ 3000 Turbospectrum-generated LTE spectra at the same labels, presented as a function of the stellar parameters. The losses for the NLTE NNE are similar. consider this to be sufficiently accurate for our simple architecture. Improvements could be made at the cost of a larger model, more data, or slower runtime for the emulator (e… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: — Comparison between the ASPCAP raw parameters and those from our LTE NN fits. There is good agreement for stellar parameters, and general agreement for chemical abundances. Note that the vertical axes of the plots are more zoomed in than the horizontal axes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: — Kiel Diagrams and trends of [X/Fe] vs [Fe/H] for Na, Mg, Al with parameters and abundances from ASPCAP (raw), P4G LTE and P4G NLTE. The lines in the P4G Kiel Diagrams are associated with discontinuities in our NNEs, but do not greatly impact the fitting of abundances. Note that in the P4G NLTE, [Fe/H] is in LTE. The black dotted lines show solar [Fe/H] and [X/Fe]. The green dashed lines show the median A… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: — same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: — NLTE differences for [Na/Fe] (first two rows of subplots), [Mg/Fe] (third, fourth rows), [Al/Fe] (fifth, sixth rows), and [Si/Fe] (last two rows). The top panels of each pair, with the blue histogram, are the per-star NLTE differences that come from fitting each star with each Payne. The latter panels of each pair, with the orange histogram, are the polynomial NLTE differences that come from fitting the … view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: — The same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: — Chemical abundance trends with Teff for 595 OCCAM stars in our VAC. We selected only clusters with a large Teff spread and a narrow [Fe/H] spread. We show how the trends lessen, or stay the same, with the addition of our P4G NLTE correction. Aluminum, like sodium, is an odd-Z light element, and is produced during carbon and neon burning during the MgAl cycle (Samland 1998). Because of the metallicity de… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: — The difference between our NLTE corrections and those of Osorio et al. (2020), for Mg and Ca. of [Al/Fe] with Teff ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_11.png] view at source ↗

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