Projected Rotational Velocities for LAMOST Stars with Effective Temperatures Lower than 9000 K
Abstract
In Data Release 9 of LAMOST, we present measurements of v sin i for a total of 121,698 stars measured using the Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) and 80,108 stars using the Low Resolution Spectrograph (LRS). These values were obtained through a χ 2 minimization process, comparing LAMOST spectra with corresponding grids of synthetically broadened spectra. Due to the resolution and the spectral range of LAMOST, v sin i measurements are limited to stars with an effective temperature (T eff) ranging from 5000 to 8500 K for MRS and 7000 to 9000 K for LRS. The detectable v sin i for MRS is set between 27 and 350 km s‑1, and for LRS between 110 and 350 km s‑1. This limitation is because the convolved reference spectra become less informative beyond 350 km s‑1. The intrinsic precision of v sin i, determined from multiepoch observations, is approximately ∼4.0 km s‑1 for MRS and ∼10.0 km s‑1 for LRS at a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 50. Our v sin i values show consistency with those from APOGEE17, displaying a scatter of 8.79 km s‑1. They are also in agreement with measurements from the Gaia DR3 and Sun et al. catalogs. An observed trend in LAMOST MRS data is the decrease in v sin i with a drop in T eff, particularly transiting around 7000 K for dwarfs and 6500 K for giants, primarily observed in stars with near-solar abundances.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- March 2024
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2401.03959
- Bibcode:
- 2024ApJS..271....4Z
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical techniques;
- Stellar rotation;
- 1684;
- 1629;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 16 figures