Gaia FGK benchmark stars: Metallicity
Abstract
Context. To calibrate automatic pipelines that determine atmospheric parameters of stars, one needs a sample of stars, or "benchmark stars", with well-defined parameters to be used as a reference.
Aims: We provide detailed documentation of the iron abundance determination of the 34 FGK-type benchmark stars that are selected to be the pillars for calibration of the one billion Gaia stars. They cover a wide range of temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities.
Methods: Up to seven different methods were used to analyze an observed spectral library of high resolutions and high signal-to-noise ratios. The metallicity was determined by assuming a value of effective temperature and surface gravity obtained from fundamental relations; that is, these parameters were known a priori and independently from the spectra.
Results: We present a set of metallicity values obtained in a homogeneous way for our sample of benchmark stars. In addition to this value, we provide detailed documentation of the associated uncertainties. Finally, we report a value of the metallicity of the cool giant
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201322440
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1309.1099
- Bibcode:
- 2014A&A...564A.133J
- Keywords:
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- standards;
- techniques: spectroscopic;
- surveys;
- stars: fundamental parameters;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics