SEGUE stellar parameter pipeline. V.

By means of a star-by-star comparison with degraded spectra from the ELODIE spectral library and with a set of moderately high-resolution (R=15000) and medium-resolution (R=6000) spectra of SDSS/SEGUE stars, we demonstrate that we are able to measure [{alpha}/Fe] from SDSS/SEGUE spectra (with S/N>20/1) to a precision of better than 0.1dex, for stars with atmospheric parameters in the range Teff=[4500,7000]K, logg=[1.5,5.0], and [Fe/H]=[-1.4,+0.3], over the range [{alpha}/Fe]=[-0.1,+0.6].

For stars with [Fe/H]<-1.4, our method requires spectra with slightly higher signal-to-noise to achieve this precision (S/N>25/1).