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Stellar Atmospheric Parameters of M-type Stars from LAMOST DR8

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2022-06-29 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Low Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LRS) provides massive spectroscopic data of M-type stars, and the derived stellar parameters could bring vital help to various studies. We adopt the ULySS package to perform χ2\chi^2 minimization with model spectra generated from the MILES interpolator, and determine the stellar atmospheric parameters for the M-type stars from LAMOST LRS Data Release (DR) 8. Comparison with the stellar parameters from APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundance Pipeline (ASPCAP) suggests that most of our results have good consistency. For M dwarfs, we achieve dispersions better than 74 K, 0.19 dex and 0.16 dex for TeffT_{\rm eff}, logg\log{g} and [Fe/H], while for M giants, the internal uncertainties are 58 K, 0.32 dex and 0.26 dex, respectively. Compared to ASPCAP we also find a systematic underestimation of ΔTeff=\Delta {T_{\rm eff}} = -176 K for M dwarfs, and a systematic overestimation of Δlogg=\Delta {\log{g}} = 0.30 dex for M giants. However, such differences are less significant when we make comparison with common stars from other literature, which indicates that systematic biases exist in the difference of ASPCAP and other measurements. A catalog of 763,136 spectra corresponding to 616,314 M-type stars with derived stellar parameters is presented. We determine the stellar parameters for stars with TeffT_{\rm eff} higher than 2,900 K, with logg\log{g} from -0.24 dex to 5.9 dex. The typical precisions are 45 K, 0.25 dex and 0.22 dex, for TeffT_{\rm eff}, logg\log{g} and [Fe/H], respectively, which are estimated from the duplicate observations of the same stars.

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@article{arxiv.2204.09200,
  title  = {Stellar Atmospheric Parameters of M-type Stars from LAMOST DR8},
  author = {Ming-Yi Ding and Jian-Rong Shi and Yue Wu and Hugh R. A. Jones and Hong-liang Yan and Chun-Qian Li and Qi Gao and Tian-Yi Chen and Jing-Hua Zhang and Shuai Liu and Tai-Sheng Yan and Xiao-Jin Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09200},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series