Stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter Spectral Library

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Title: Stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter Spectral Library
Authors: Arentsen, Anke, Prugniel, Philippe, Gonneau, Anais, Lançon, Ariane, Trager, Scott, Peletier, Reynier, Lyubenova, Mariya, Chen, Yan-Ping, Barroso, Jesús Falcón, Blázquez, Patricia Sánchez, Vazdekis, Alejandro
Source: 2019, A&A, 627, A138
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
More Details: The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is an empirical stellar library at medium spectral resolution covering the wavelength range from 3000 \AA to 24 800 \AA. This library aims to provide a benchmark for stellar population studies. 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. 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. The stars cover a range of effective temperature 2900 < Teff < 38 000 K, surface gravity 0 < log g < 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, log g, and [Fe/H], respectively. For the cool giants with log g < 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.
Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, published in A&A
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834273
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06391
Accession Number: edsarx.1907.06391
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201834273