Stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter Spectral Library
Abstract
Context. The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is an empirical stellar library at medium spectral resolution covering the wavelength range from 3000 Å to 24 800 Å. This library aims to provide a benchmark for stellar population studies.
Aims: In this work, we present a uniform set of stellar atmospheric parameters, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and iron abundances for 754 spectra of 616 XSL stars.
Methods: We used the full-spectrum fitting package ULySS with the empirical MILES library as reference to fit the ultraviolet-blue (UVB) and visible (VIS) spectra. We tested the internal consistency and we compared our results with compilations from the literature.
Results: The stars cover a range of effective temperature 2900 < Teff < 38 000 K, surface gravity 0 < logg < 5.7, and iron abundance -2.5 < [Fe/H] < +1.0, with a couple of stars extending down to [Fe/H] = -3.9. The precisions of the measurements for the G- and K-type stars are 0.9%, 0.14, and 0.06 in Teff, logg, and [Fe/H], respectively. For the cool giants with logg < 1, the precisions are 2.1%, 0.21, and 0.22, and for the other cool stars these values are 1%, 0.14, and 0.10. For the hotter stars (Teff > 6500 K), these values are 2.6%, 0.20, and 0.10 for the three parameters.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201834273
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1907.06391
- Bibcode:
- 2019A&A...627A.138A
- Keywords:
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- atlases;
- stars: fundamental parameters;
- methods: data analysis;
- techniques: spectroscopic;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, published in A&