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Photometric Stellar Parameters for 195,478 Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) Stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2024-12-30 v3 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The stellar atmospheric parameters and physical properties of stars in the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) are of great significance for the study of exoplanets, stellar activity, and asteroseismology. However, despite extensive effort over the past decades, accurate spectroscopic estimates of these parameters are available for only about half of the stars in the full KIC catalog. In our work, by training relationships between photometric colors and spectroscopic stellar parameters from Gaia DR3, the Kepler Issac-Newton Survey, LAMOST DR10, and APOGEE DR17, we have obtained atmospheric-parameter estimates for over 195,000 stars, accounting for 97%\% of the total sample of KIC stars. We obtain 1σ\sigma uncertainties of 0.1 dex on metallicity [Fe/H], 100 K on effective temperature TeffT_{\rm eff}, and 0.2 dex on surface gravity log gg. In addition, based on these atmospheric parameters, we estimated the ages, masses, radii, and surface gravities of these stars using the commonly adopted isochrone-fitting approach. External comparisons indicate that the resulting precision for turn-off stars is 20%\% in age; for dwarf stars, it is 0.07 MM_{\odot} in mass, 0.05 RR_{\odot} in radius, and 0.12 dex in surface gravity; and for giant stars, it is 0.14 MM_{\odot} in mass, 0.73 RR_{\odot} in radius, and 0.11 dex in surface gravity.

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@article{arxiv.2412.16930,
  title  = {Photometric Stellar Parameters for 195,478 Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) Stars},
  author = {Bowen Zhang and Yang Huang and Timothy C. Beers and Kai Xiao and Jifeng Liu and Lei Jia and Henggeng Han and Zhirui Li and Chuanjie Zheng and Yongkang Sun and Ruifeng Shi and Hongrui Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16930},
  year   = {2024}
}

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26 pages, 22 figures. To be published in ApJS. For associated catalogs of the result, see https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14546166