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Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2025-11-26 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We utilized the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), a data-driven model based on Support Vector Regression, to derive stellar parameters ([Fe/H], TeffT_{\rm eff}, and logg\log{g}) for SDSS-V M dwarfs using low-resolution optical spectra (R\sim2000) obtained with the BOSS spectrographs. These parameters are calibrated using LAMOST F, G or K dwarf companions ([Fe/H]), and APOGEE Net (TeffT_{\rm eff} and logg\log{g}), respectively. Comparisons of SLAM predicted [Fe/H] values between two components of M+M dwarfs wide binaries show no bias but with a scatter of 0.11 dex. Further comparisons with two other works, which also calibrated the [Fe/H] of M dwarfs by using the F/G/K companions, reveal biases of -0.06±\pm0.16 dex and 0.02±\pm0.14 dex, respectively. The SLAM-derived effective temperatures agree well with the temperature which is calibrated by using interferometric angular diameters (bias: -27±\pm92 K) and those of the LAMOST (bias: -34±\pm65 K), but are systematically lower than those from an empirical relationship between the color index and TeffT_{\rm eff} by 146±\pm45 K. The SLAM surface gravity aligns well with those of LAMOST (bias: -0.01±\pm0.07 dex) and those derived from the stellar mass and radius (bias: -0.04±\pm0.09 dex). Finally, we investigated a bias in [Fe/H] between SLAM and APOGEE ASPCAP. It depends on ASPCAP's [Fe/H] and TeffT_{\rm eff}, we provide an equation to correct the ASPCAP metallicities.

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@article{arxiv.2511.20005,
  title  = {Stellar Parameters of BOSS M dwarfs in SDSS-V DR19},
  author = {Dan Qiu and Jennifer A. Johnson and Chao Liu and Diogo Souto and Ilija Medan and Guy S. Stringfellow and Zachary Way and Yuan-sen Ting and Andrew R. Casey and Bárbara Rojas-Ayala and Ricardo López-Valdivia and Ying-Yi Song and Bo Zhang and Jiadong Li and Aida Behmard and Szabolcs Mészáros and Keivan G. Stassun and José G. Fernández-Trincado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20005},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 12 Figures