The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong observatory in China is a new 4-m telescope equipped with 4,000 optical fibers. In 2010, we initiated the LAMOST-Kepler project. We requested to observe the full field-of-view of the nominal Kepler mission with the LAMOST to collect low-resolution spectra for as many objects from the KIC10 catalogue as possible. So far, 12 of the 14 requested LAMOST fields have been observed resulting in more than 68,000 low-resolution spectra. Our preliminary results show that the stellar parameters derived from the LAMOST spectra are in good agreement with those found in the literature based on high-resolution spectroscopy. The LAMOST data allows to distinguish dwarfs from giants and can provide the projected rotational velocity for very fast rotators.
@article{arxiv.1411.0913,
title = {LAMOST observations in the Kepler field},
author = {Peter De Cat and Jianning Fu and Xiaohu Yang and Anbing Ren and Antonio Frasca and Joanna Molenda-Żakowicz and Giovanni Catanzaro and Richard O. Gray and Chris J. Corbally and Jianrong Shi and Haotong Zhang and Ali Luo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0913},
year = {2015}
}
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CoRoT Symposium 3 / Kepler KASC-7 joint meeting, Toulouse, July 2014. To be published by EPJ Web of Conferences