M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the Galaxy, and because of their small size are favored targets for searches of Earth-sized transiting exoplanets. Current and upcoming all-sky spectroscopic surveys, such as the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), offer an opportunity to systematically determine physical properties of many more M dwarfs than has been previously possible. Here we present new effective temperatures, radii, masses, and luminosities for 29,678 M dwarfs with spectral types M0-M6 in the first data release (DR1) of LAMOST. We derived these parameters from the supervised machine learning code, The Cannon, trained with 1,388 M dwarfs in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Cool Dwarf Catalog that were also present in LAMOST with high signal-to-noise ratio (>250) spectra. Our validation tests show that the output parameter uncertainties are strongly correlated with the signal-to-noise of the LAMOST spectra, and we achieve typical uncertainties of 110 K in Teff (∼3%), 0.065 R⊙ (∼14%) in radius, 0.054 M⊙ (∼12%) in mass, and 0.012 L⊙ (∼20%) in luminosity. The model presented here can be rapidly applied to future LAMOST data releases, significantly extending the samples of well-characterized M dwarfs across the sky using new and exclusively data-based modeling methods.
@article{arxiv.1912.06648,
title = {Fundamental Parameters of $\sim$30,000 M dwarfs in LAMOST DR1 Using Data-driven Spectral Modeling},
author = {Brianna Galgano and Keivan Stassun and Barbara Rojas-Ayala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06648},
year = {2020}
}