MUSE 3D spectroscopy of BA-type supergiants in NGC 300
Abstract
We present the results obtained using spectroscopic data taken with the intermediate-resolution Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) of B and A-type supergiants and bright giants in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 300. For our analysis, a hybrid local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) line-blanketing+non-LTE method was used to improve the previously published results for the same data. In addition, we present some further applications of this work, which includes extending the flux-weighted gravity luminosity relationship (FGLR), a distance determination method for supergiants. This pioneering work opens up a new window to explore this relation, and also demonstrates the enormous potential of integral field spectroscopy (IFS) for extragalactic quantitative stellar studies.
- Publication:
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IAU Symposium
- Pub Date:
- 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921322002186
- Bibcode:
- 2024IAUS..361..151G
- Keywords:
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- Galaxies: individual (NGC 300);
- Galaxies: distances and redshifts;
- Stars: early-type;
- Stars: fundamental parameters;
- supergiants