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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/126
- Title:
- Stellar parameters & abund. from BACCHUS analysis
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Data from the SDSS-IV/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2) have been released as part of SDSS Data Releases 13 (DR13) and 14 (DR14). These include high-resolution H-band spectra, radial velocities, and derived stellar parameters and abundances. DR13, released in 2016 August, contained APOGEE data for roughly 150000 stars, and DR14, released in 2017 August, added about 110000 more. Stellar parameters and abundances have been derived with an automated pipeline, the APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundance Pipeline (ASPCAP). We evaluate the performance of this pipeline by comparing the derived stellar parameters and abundances to those inferred from optical spectra and analysis for several hundred stars. For most elements - C, Na, Mg, Al, Si, S, Ca, Cr, Mn, Ni - the DR14 ASPCAP analyses have systematic differences with the comparisons samples of less than 0.05 dex (median), and random differences of less than 0.15 dex (standard deviation). These differences are a combination of the uncertainties in both the comparison samples as well as the ASPCAP analysis. Compared to the references, magnesium is the most accurate alpha-element derived by ASPCAP, and shows a very clear thin/thick disk separation, while nickel is the most accurate iron-peak element (besides iron itself).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/603/A56
- Title:
- Stellar parameters and assumed wind parameters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/603/A56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Recent observations have challenged our understanding of rotational mixing in massive stars by revealing a population of fast-rotating objects with apparently normal surface nitrogen abundances. However, several questions have arisen because of a number of issues (e.g., presence of numerous upper limits for the nitrogen abundance, unknown multiplicity status, mix of stars with different physical properties such as their mass and evolutionary state that are known to control the amount of rotational mixing), rendering a re-investigation necessary. We have carefully selected a large sample of bright, fast-rotating early-type stars of our Galaxy (40 objects with spectral types between B0.5 and O4). Their high-quality, high-resolution optical spectra were then analysed with the stellar atmosphere modelling codes DETAIL/SURFACE or CMFGEN, depending on the temperature of the target. Several internal and external checks were performed to validate our methods, notably comparing our results with literature data for some well-known objects, studying the effect of gravity darkening, or confronting the results provided by the two codes for stars amenable to both analyses. Furthermore, we have studied the radial velocities of the stars to assess their binarity. This first part of our study presents our methods and provides the derived stellar parameters, He, CNO abundances and the multiplicity status of every star of the sample. It is the first time that He and CNO abundances of such a large number of Galactic massive fast rotators are determined in a homogeneous way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/411/435
- Title:
- Stellar parameters and extinction
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/411/435
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Astrometric surveys provide the opportunity to measure the absolute magnitudes of large numbers of stars, but only if the individual line-of-sight extinctions are known. Unfortunately, extinction is highly degenerate with stellar effective temperature when estimated from broad band optical/infrared photometry. To address this problem, I introduce a Bayesian method for estimating the intrinsic parameters of a star and its line-of-sight extinction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/115/22
- Title:
- Stellar parameters for 134 cool subdwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/115/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The results of a search for cool subdwarfs are presented. Kinematic (U, V, and W) and stellar parameters (Teff, logg, [Fe/H], and Vturb) are derived for 134 candidate subdwarfs based on high-resolution spectra. The observed stars span 4200K<Teff<6400K and -2.70<[Fe/H]<0.25 including only eight giants (logg<4.0). Of the sample, 100 stars have MgH bands present in their spectra. The targets were selected by their large reduced proper motion, by the offset from the solar-metallicity main sequence, or from the literature. We confirm the claims made by Ryan (1989, Cat. <J/AJ/98/1693>) that the NLTT catalog is a rich source of subdwarfs and verify the success of the reduced proper-motion constraint in identifying metal-poor stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/581/A68
- Title:
- Stellar parameters for CoRoT exoplanet field stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/581/A68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectroscopic observations represent a fundamental step in the physical characterization of stars and, in particular, in the precise location of stars in the HR diagram. Rotation is also a key parameter, impacting stellar properties and evolution, which modulates the interior and manifests itself on the surface of stars. To date, the lack of analysis based on large samples has prevented our understanding of the real impact of stellar parameters and rotation on the stellar evolution as well as on the behavior of surface abundances. The space missions, CoRoT and Kepler, are providing us with rotation periods for thousands of stars, thus enabling a robust assessment of the behavior of rotation for different populations and evolutionary stages. For these reasons, the follow-up programs are fundamental to increasing the returns of these space missions. An analysis that combines spectroscopic data and rotation/modulation periods obtained from these space missions provides the basis for establishing the evolutionary behavior of the angular momentum of solar-like stars at different evolutionary stages, and the relation of rotation with other relevant physical and chemical parameters. To support the computation and evolutionary interpretation of periods associated with the rotational modulation, oscillations, and variability of stars located in the CoRoT fields, we are conducting a spectroscopic survey for stars located in the fields already observed by the satellite. These observations allow us to compute physical and chemical parameters for our stellar sample. Using spectroscopic observations obtained with UVES/VLT and Hydra/Blanco, and based on standard analysis techniques, we computed physical and chemical parameters (T_eff_, log(g), [Fe/H], v_mic_, v_rad_, vsin(i), and A(Li)) for a large sample of CoRoT targets. We provide physical and chemical parameters for a sample comprised of 138 CoRoT targets. Our analysis shows the stars in our sample are located in different evolutionary stages, ranging from the main sequence to the red giant branch, and range in spectral type from F to K. The physical and chemical properties for the stellar sample are in agreement with typical values reported for FGK stars. However, we report three stars presenting abnormal lithium behavior in the CoRoT fields. These parameters allow us to properly characterize the intrinsic properties of the stars in these fields. Our results reveal important differences in the distributions of metallicity, T_eff_, and evolutionary status for stars belonging to different CoRoT fields, in agreement with results obtained independently from ground-based photometric surveys. Our spectroscopic catalog, by providing much-needed spectroscopic information for a large sample of CoRoT targets, will be of key importance for the successful accomplishment of several different programs related to the CoRoT mission, thus it will help further boost the scientific return associated with this space mission.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/90
- Title:
- Stellar parameters for 13196 Kepler dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/90
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The rotational evolution of cool dwarfs is poorly constrained after ~1-2Gyr due to a lack of precise ages and rotation periods for old main-sequence stars. In this work, we use velocity dispersion as an age proxy to reveal the temperature-dependent rotational evolution of low-mass Kepler dwarfs and demonstrate that kinematic ages could be a useful tool for calibrating gyrochronology in the future. We find that a linear gyrochronology model, calibrated to fit the period-Teff relationship of the Praesepe cluster, does not apply to stars older than around 1Gyr. Although late K dwarfs spin more slowly than early-K dwarfs when they are young, at old ages, we find that late K dwarfs rotate at the same rate or faster than early-K dwarfs of the same age. This result agrees qualitatively with semiempirical models that vary the rate of surface-to-core angular momentum transport as a function of time and mass. It also aligns with recent observations of stars in the NGC6811 cluster, which indicate that the surface rotation rates of K dwarfs go through an epoch of inhibited evolution. We find that the oldest Kepler stars with measured rotation periods are late K and early M dwarfs, indicating that these stars maintain spotted surfaces and stay magnetically active longer than more massive stars. Finally, based on their kinematics, we confirm that many rapidly rotating GKM dwarfs are likely to be synchronized binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/133
- Title:
- Stellar parameters from SDSS-III APOGEE DR10
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a three-year survey that is collecting 10^5^ high-resolution spectra in the near-IR across multiple Galactic populations. To derive stellar parameters and chemical compositions from this massive data set, the APOGEE Stellar Parameters and Chemical Abundances Pipeline (ASPCAP) has been developed. Here, we describe empirical calibrations of stellar parameters presented in the first SDSS-III APOGEE data release (DR10). These calibrations were enabled by observations of 559 stars in 20 globular and open clusters. The cluster observations were supplemented by observations of stars in NASA's Kepler field that have well determined surface gravities from asteroseismic analysis. We discuss the accuracy and precision of the derived stellar parameters, considering especially effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity; we also briefly discuss the derived results for the abundances of the {alpha}-elements, carbon, and nitrogen. Overall, we find that ASPCAP achieves reasonably accurate results for temperature and metallicity, but suffers from systematic errors in surface gravity. We derive calibration relations that bring the raw ASPCAP results into better agreement with independently determined stellar parameters. The internal scatter of ASPCAP parameters within clusters suggests that metallicities are measured with a precision better than 0.1dex, effective temperatures better than 150K, and surface gravities better than 0.2dex. The understanding provided by the clusters and Kepler giants on the current accuracy and precision will be invaluable for future improvements of the pipeline.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/899/62
- Title:
- Stellar parameters from the 1st release of the MaSTar
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/899/62
- Date:
- 14 Mar 2022 07:12:49
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the stellar atmospheric parameters for 7503 spectra contained in the first release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey (MaNGA) stellar library (MaStar) in Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR15. The first release of MaStar contains 8646 spectra measured from 3321 unique stars, each covering the wavelength range 3622-10354{AA} with a resolving power of R~1800. In this work, we first determined the basic stellar parameters: effective temperature (Teff), surface gravity (logg), and metallicity ([Fe/H]), which best fit the data using an empirical interpolator based on the Medium-resolution Isaac Newton Telescope library of empirical spectra (MILES), as implemented by the University of Lyon Spectroscopic analysis Software package. While we analyzed all 8646 spectra from the first release of MaStar, since MaStar has a wider parameter-space coverage than MILES, not all of these fits are robust. In addition, not all parameter regions covered by MILES yield robust results, likely due to the nonuniform coverage of the parameter space by MILES. We tested the robustness of the method using the MILES spectra itself and identified a proxy based on the local density of the training set. With this proxy, we identified 7503 MaStar spectra with robust fitting results. They cover the range from 3179 to 20517K in effective temperature (Teff), from 0.40 to 5.0 in surface gravity (logg), and from -2.49 to +0.73 in metallicity ([Fe/H]).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A31
- Title:
- Stellar parameters in 10 globular cluster fields
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/530/A31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Here we publish the extracted stellar parameters from a recent large spectroscopic survey of ten globular clusters. A brief review of the project is also presented. Stellar parameters have been extracted from individual stellar spectra using both a modified version of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) pipeline and a pipeline based on the parameter estimation method of RAVE. We publish here all parameters extracted from both pipelines. We calibrate the metallicity and convert this to [Fe/H] for each star and, furthermore, we compare the velocities and velocity dispersions of the Galactic stars in each field to the Besanc,on Galaxy model. We find that the model does not correspond well with the data, indicating that the model is probably of little use for comparisons with pencil beam survey data such as this.
