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CNN-Derived Elemental Abundances of LAMOST DR10 Giants: Implications for Galactic Substructures

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2025-06-23 v1

Abstract

Stellar parameters and abundances provide crucial insights into stellar and Galactic evolution studies. In this work, we developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate stellar parameters: effective temperature (TeffT_{\text{eff}}), surface gravity (log gg) and metallicity (both [Fe/H] and [M/H]) as well as six α\alpha-elements (C, N, O, Mg, Si, Ca) and [α\alpha/M]. We selected giant stars with 3500K<Teff<5500K 3500 \, \text{K} < T_{\text{eff}} < 5500 \, \text{K} and 0dex<logg<3.6dex 0 \, \text{dex} < \log g < 3.6 \, \text{dex} from the LAMOST and APOGEE surveys, while requiring (S/N)g_g of the LAMOST low-resolution spectra >> 10, which leaves 1,100,858 giant stars. The spectral from LAMOST and the labels from APOGEE for 62,511 common stars were used as our training set. The corresponding test set yields scatters 50 K, 0.06 dex and 0.13 dex for TeffT_{\text{eff}}, [Fe/H] and log gg, respectively. For α\alpha elements O, Mg, Si and Ca, the scatters are 0.05 dex, 0.04 dex, 0.03 and 0.04 dex, respectively. For C and N elements, the scatters are 0.07 dex and 0.05 dex. For [α\alpha/M] and [M/H], the scatters are 0.03 dex and 0.06 dex. The mean absolute error (MAE) of most elements are between 0.02 - 0.04 dex. The predicted abundances were cross-matched with previously identified substructures PG1 and PG2, with their origins subsequently analyzed. Finally, the catalog is available at https://nadc.china-vo.org/res/r101529/.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16135,
  title  = {CNN-Derived Elemental Abundances of LAMOST DR10 Giants: Implications for Galactic Substructures},
  author = {Haoyang Liu and Cuihua Du and Mingji Deng and Jian Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16135},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 13 figures, Published in MNRAS