Zeta-Payne: A Fully Automated Spectrum Analysis Algorithm for the Milky Way Mapper Program of the SDSS-V Survey
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has recently initiated its fifth survey generation (SDSS-V), with a central focus on stellar spectroscopy. In particular, SDSS-V's Milky Way Mapper program will deliver multiepoch optical and near-infrared spectra for more than 5 × 106 stars across the entire sky, covering a large range in stellar mass, surface temperature, evolutionary stage, and age. About 10% of those spectra will be of hot stars of OBAF spectral types, for whose analysis no established survey pipelines exist. Here we present the spectral analysis algorithm, ZETA-PAYNE, developed specifically to obtain stellar labels from SDSS-V spectra of stars with these spectral types and drawing on machine-learning tools. We provide details of the algorithm training, its test on artificial spectra, and its validation on two control samples of real stars. Analysis with ZETA-PAYNE leads to only modest internal uncertainties in the near-IR with APOGEE (optical with BOSS): 3%-10% (1%-2%) for T eff, 5%-30% (5%-25%) for $v\sin i$ , 1.7-6.3 km s-1 (0.7-2.2 km s-1) for radial velocity, <0.1 dex (<0.05 dex) for $\mathrm{log}\,g$ , and 0.4-0.5 dex (0.1 dex) for [M/H] of the star, respectively. We find a good agreement between atmospheric parameters of OBAF-type stars when inferred from their high- and low-resolution optical spectra. For most stellar labels, the APOGEE spectra are (far) less informative than the BOSS spectra of these stars, while $\mathrm{log}\,g$ , $v\sin i$ , and [M/H] are in most cases too uncertain for meaningful astrophysical interpretation. This makes BOSS low-resolution optical spectra better for stellar labels of OBAF-type stars, unless the latter are subject to high levels of extinction.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 2022
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-3881/ac5f49
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2203.14538
- Bibcode:
- 2022AJ....163..236S
- Keywords:
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- Stellar properties;
- Massive stars;
- Spectroscopy;
- 1624;
- 732;
- 1558;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 25 pages, 12 figures