Characterizing the Stars Closest to the Sun
Abstract
Next generation direct exoplanet imaging campaigns will likely focus in part on imaging the planetary population surround stars located within 30 pc of the Sun. Despite this focus, surprisingly, the fundamental properties of many stars located within 30 pc remain unknown or are poorly characterized. We present an analysis of the fundamental atmospheric parameters of 26 nearby, bright, solar-type stars, using spectra obtained with the ARCES spectrograph on the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope. We determined each star's effective temperature and iron abundance by measuring the equivalent widths of approximately 250 Fe I and Fe II lines with an automated line fitting program (ROBOSPECT), and solving for the fundamental atmospheric parameters using TGVIT. In addition, we compare a subset of our results to those already in the literature to assess the accuracy of our method. LD acknowledges support from the NSF-REU program at the University of Oklahoma. This work is also supported by NSF-AST-100934.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #227
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AAS...22714202D