- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/400/939
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of 115 HQS sdB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/400/939
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a spectral analysis of a large sample of subdwarf B stars selected from follow-up observations of candidates from the Hamburg Quasar Survey. Table 4 summarizes the results (effective temperatures, gravities, and helium abundances) of our analysis. Additionally, the equatorial and galactical coordinates, the B magnitudes and extinctions, the derived radial velocities, the absolute visual magnitudes, the distances from earth and from the galactic plane, and the references are given for all programme stars.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/517/A3
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of Kepler early-type targets
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/517/A3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stellar pulsation offers a unique opportunity to constrain the intrinsic parameters of stars and to unveil their inner structure. Kepler satellite is collecting a huge amount of data of unprecedent photometric precision, that will allow us to test theory and obtain a very precise tomography of stellar interiors. Aiming at providing the stars' fundamental parameters (Teff, logg, vsini, and luminosity) which are needed for computing asteroseismic models and interpreting Kepler data, we report spectroscopic observations of 23 early-type Kepler asteroseismic targets and 13 other stars in the Kepler field, but not selected to be observed. The cross-correlation with template spectra was used for measuring the radial velocity with the aim of identifying non-single stars. Spectral synthesis has been performed in order to derive the stellar parameters for our target stars. State-of-art LTE atmospheric models have been computed. For all the stars of our sample, we derive the radial velocity, Teff, logg, vsini, and luminosities. Further, for 12 stars, we perform a detailed abundance analysis of 20 species; for 16, we could derive only the [Fe/H] ratio. A spectral classification has been also performed for 17 stars in the sample. We found two double-lined spectroscopic binaries, HIP96299 and HIP98551, the former of which is an already known eclipsing binary, and two single-lined spectroscopic binaries, HIP97254 and HIP97724. We also report two suspected spectroscopic binaries, HIP92637 and HIP96762, and the detection of a possible variability of the radial velocity of HIP96277. Two of our program stars turn out to be chemically peculiar, namely HIP93941, which we classify as B2 He-weak, and HIP96210, which we classify as B6Mn. Finally, we find that HIP93522, HIP93941, HIP93943, HIP96210 and HIP96762, are very slow rotators (vsini<20km/s) which makes them very interesting and promising targets for an asteroseismic modeling.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/56
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of M and K dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Empirical correlations between stellar parameters such as rotation or radius and magnetic activity diagnostics require estimates of the effective temperatures and the stellar radii. The aim of this study is to propose simple methods that can be applied to large samples of stars in order to derive estimates of the stellar parameters. Good empirical correlations between red/infrared colors (e.g., (R-I)_C_) and effective temperatures have been well established for a long time. The more recent (R-I)_C_ color-T_eff_ correlation using the data of Mann et al. (2015, J/ApJ/804/64, hereafter M15) and Boyajian et al. (2012, J/ApJ/757/112, hereafter B12) shows that this color can be applied as a temperature estimate for large samples of stars. We find that the mean scatter in T_eff_ relative to the (R-I)_C_-T_eff_ relationship of B12 and M15 data is only +/-3{sigma}=44.6 K for K dwarfs and +/-3{sigma}=39.4 K for M dwarfs. These figures are small and show that the (R-I)_C_ color can be used as a first-guess effective temperature estimator for K and M dwarfs. We derive effective temperatures for about 1910 K and M dwarfs using the calibration of (R-I)_C_ color-T_eff_ from B12 and M15 data. We also compiled T_eff_ and metallicity measurements available in the literature using the VizieR database. We determine T_eff_ for 441 stars with previously unknown effective temperatures. We also identified 21 new spectroscopic binaries and one triple system from our high-resolution spectra.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/658/A194
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of 18 M dwarfs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/658/A194
- Date:
- 24 Feb 2022 06:38:20
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deriving metallicities for solar-like stars follows well-established methods, but for cooler stars such as M dwarfs, the determination is much more complicated due to forests of molecular lines that are present. Several methods have been developed in recent years to determine accurate stellar parameters for these cool stars (Teff<4000K). However, significant differences can be found at times when comparing metallicities for the same star derived using different methods. In this work, we determine the effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of 18 well-studied M dwarfs observed with the CARMENES high-resolution spectrograph following different approaches, including synthetic spectral fitting, analysis of pseudo-equivalent widths, and machine learning. We analyzed the discrepancies in the derived stellar parameters, including metallicity, in several analysis runs. Our goal is to minimize these discrepancies and find stellar parameters that are more consistent with the literature values. We attempted to achieve this consistency by standardizing the most commonly used components, such as wavelength ranges, synthetic model spectra, continuum normalization methods, and stellar parameters. We conclude that although such modifications work quite well for hotter main-sequence stars, they do not improve the consistency in stellar parameters for M dwarfs, leading to mean deviations of around 50-200K in temperature and 0.1-0.3dex in metallicity. In particular, M dwarfs are much more complex and a standardization of the aforementioned components cannot be considered as a straightforward recipe for bringing consistency to the derived parameters. Further in-depth investigations of the employed methods would be necessary in order to identify and correct for the discrepancies that remain.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/458/873
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of metal-rich solar-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/458/873
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To date, metallicity is the only parameter of a star that appears to clearly correlate with the presence of planets and their properties. To check for new correlations between stars and the existence of an orbiting planet, we determine accurate stellar parameters for several metal-rich solar-type stars. The purpose is to fill the gap of the comparison sample presented in previous works in the high metal-content regime.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A146
- Title:
- Stellar parameters of NGC3201 RGB stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The origin of the globular cluster (GC) NGC3201 is under debate. Its retrograde orbit points to an extragalactic origin, but no further chemical evidence supports this idea. Light-element chemical abundances are useful to tag GCs and can be used to shed light in this discussion. Recently it was shown that the CN and CH indices are useful to identify anomalous GCs out of typical Milky Way GCs. A possible origin of anomalous clusters is the merger of two GCs and/or nucleus of a dwarf galaxy. We aim at deriving CN and CH band strengths for red giant stars in NGC3201 and compare with photometric indices and high-resolution spectroscopy and discuss in the context of GC chemical tagging. We measure molecular band indices of S(3839) and G4300 for CN and CH, respectively from low-resolution spectra of red giant stars. Gravity and temperature effects are removed. Photometric indices are used to indicate further chemical information on C+N+O or s-process element abundances, not derived from low-resolution spectra. We found three groups on the CN-CH distribution. A main sequence (S1), a secondary less-populated sequence (S2), and a group of peculiar (pec) CN-weak and CH-weak stars, one of which was previously known. The three groups seem to have different C+N+O and/or s-process element abundances, to be confirmed by high-resolution spectroscopy. These are typical characteristics of anomalous GCs. The CN distribution of NGC3201 is quadrimodal, which is more common in anomalous clusters. However, NGC3201 does not belong to the trend of anomalous GCs in the mass-size relation. NGC3201 shows signs that it can be chemically tagged as anomalous: unusual CN-CH relation, indications that pec-S1-S2 is an increasing sequence of C+N+O or s-process element abundances, and a multimodal CN distribution that seems to correlate with s-process element abundances. The differences are: it has a debatable Fe-spread and it does not follow the trend of mass-size of all anomalous clusters. Three scenarios are postulated here: (i) if the sequence pec-S1-S2 has increasing C+N+O and s-process element abundances, NGC3201 would be the first anomalous GC out of the mass-size relation; (ii) if the abundances are almost constant, NGC3201 would be the first non-anomalous GC with multiple CN-CH anti-correlation groups, or (iii) it would be the first anomalous GC without variations in C+N+O and s-process element abundances. In all cases, the definition of anomalous clusters and the scenario where they have an extragalactic origin must be revised.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/474/763
- Title:
- Stellar population gradients in bulges. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/474/763
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the analysis of the radial gradients of stellar absorption lines in a sample of 32 bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies, spanning nearly the full Hubble sequence (from S0 to Sc types), and a large range of velocity dispersion (from about 60 to 300km/s). Different diagnostics such as index-index, gradient-gradient diagrams, and simple stellar population models are used to tackle the origin of the variation of the bulge stellar population. We find that the vast majority of bulges show older age, lower metallicity and higher [alpha/Fe] in their outer regions than in their central parts. The radial gradients in [Fe/H] are 2 to 3 times larger than in Log(age). The relation between gradient and bulge velocity dispersion is interpreted as a gradual build up of the gradient mean values and their dispersions from high to low velocity dispersion, rather than a pure correlation. The bulge effective radii and the Hubble type of the parent galaxies seem to play a more minor role in causing the observed spatial distributions. At a given velocity dispersion, bulges and ellipticals share common properties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/161/288
- Title:
- Stellar population in M53
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/161/288
- Date:
- 18 Jan 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results from a study of 94 red giant stars in the globular cluster M53. We use low-resolution spectra to measure the strength of CN and CH features at ~3800 and 4300{AA}, respectively. The strengths of these features are used to classify stars into a CN-enhanced and CN-normal population and to measure C and N abundances in all 94 stars. We find the red giant branch stars to be evenly split between the two populations identified, and observe the presence of CN-enhanced stars on the asymptotic giant branch. In addition, we identify five CH star candidates based on the strength of their CN and CH band features, and the presence of a P-branch in their CH band. We compare our identification of multiple populations to those based on the Na-O anticorrelation and pseudo-color indices in Hubble Space Telescope UV photometry, and find general agreement between all three methods. Our large sample size also allows us to study the radial distribution of each population, and we find that the CN-enhanced population is more centrally concentrated. We use our C and N measurements to compare the evolutionary changes in these elements as a function of magnitude between the two populations, and show that both populations experience similar evolutionary changes to the surface abundances of C and N. Finally, we calculate C+N+O abundances for each population and compare them to similar measurements made in M10; we find that in both clusters, CN-enhanced stars have a slightly enhanced C+N+O ({Delta}(C+N+O)~0.2dex).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/14
- Title:
- Stellar populations of globular clusters using APOGEE
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate aluminum abundance variations in the stellar populations of globular clusters using both literature measurements of sodium and aluminum and APOGEE measurements of nitrogen and aluminum abundances. For the latter, we show that the Payne is the most suitable of the five available abundance pipelines for our purposes. Our combined sample of 42 globular clusters spans approximately 2 dex in [Fe/H] and 1.5 dex in logM_GC_/M_{sun}_. We find no fewer than five globular clusters with significant internal variations in nitrogen and/or sodium with little to no corresponding variation in aluminum, and that the minimum present-day cluster mass for aluminum enrichment in metal-rich systems is logM_GC_/M_{sun}_~4.50+2.17([Fe/H]+1.30). We demonstrate that the slopes of the [Al/Fe] versus [Na/Fe] and [Al/Fe] versus [N/Fe] relations for stars without field-like abundances are approximately log-linearly dependent on both the metallicity and the stellar mass of the globular clusters. In contrast, the relationship between [Na/Fe] and [N/Fe] shows no evidence of such dependencies. This suggests that there were (at least) two classes of non-supernova chemical polluters that were common in the early universe, and that their relative contributions within globular clusters somehow scaled with the metallicity and mass of globular clusters. The first of these classes is predominantly responsible for the CNO and NeNa abundance variations, and likewise the second for the MgAl abundance variations. Particularly striking examples of this dichotomy include 47 Tuc and M4. As an auxiliary finding, we argue that abundance variations among Terzan 5 stars are consistent with it being a normal globular cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/649/A93
- Title:
- Stellar populations of NGC 3311
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/649/A93
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Massive early-type galaxies are believed to be the end result of an extended mass accretion history. The stars formed in situ, very early during the initial phase of the assembly, might have originated from an extremely intense and rapid burst of star formation. These stars may still be found within the cores of such galaxies at z=0, depending on their accretion and merger histories. We wish to investigate the presence of a surviving high-z compact progenitor component in the brightest galaxy of the Hydra~I cluster, NGC~3311, by mapping its 2D kinematics and stellar population out to 2 effective radii. Our goal is to understand the formation of its several structural components and trace their mass assembly back in time. We combine MUSE observations, a customized and extended version of the state-of-the-art EMILES single stellar population models, and a newly developed parametric fully Bayesian framework to model the observed spectra using full-spectrum fitting. We present 2D maps, as well as radial profiles, of the stellar velocity dispersion, age, total metallicity, {alpha}-element, sodium abundance ([Na/Fe]), and the initial mass function slope. All properties have significant gradients, confirming the existence of multiple structural components, also including a "blue spot" characterized by younger and metal-richer stars. We find that the component dominating the light budget of NGC 3311 within R<2.0kpc, is the surviving z=0 analogue of a high-z compact core, according to the definition of Pulsoni et al. (2021). This concentrated structure has a relatively small velocity dispersion (sigma~180km/s), is very old (ages~11Gyr), metal-rich ([Z/H]~0.2 and [Na/Fe]~0.4), and has a bottom-heavy IMF (with slope Gamma_b_~2.4). In the outer region, instead, the line-of-sight velocity distribution becomes increasingly broader, and the stars have younger age. They are also metal and sodium poorer but {alpha}-element richer. The low-mass end of the IMF slope becomes Chabrier-like with increasing galactocentric distances. The existence of multiple structural components in NGC 3311 from photometry, kinematics, and stellar populations confirms the predictions from the two-phase formation scenario for NGC 3311, according to which a first very short, high-z star formation episode formed a compact stellar structure in its core, which then grew in size by the extended mass assembly of relatively massive satellites. Interestingly, the outer stellar population has an overabundant [alpha/Fe], most likely because NGC 3311, located at the center of the galaxy cluster, accreted stars from rapidly quenched satellites.