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The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO), Flagstaff Station, Arizona (which was…

Using data mining techniques applied on emission line characteristics of Be stars spectra we attempted to find new Be stars candidates in SDSS SEGUE survey. The mid-resolution spectra of confirmed Be stars obtained from VO-compatible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Petr Škoda , Jaroslav Vážný

With the purpose of assessing classic spectroscopic methods on high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio spectra in the near-infrared wavelength region, we selected a sample of 65 F-, G-, and K-type stars observed with CARMENES, the…

Spectroscopic surveys require fast and efficient analysis methods to maximize their scientific impact. Here we apply a deep neural network architecture to analyze both SDSS-III APOGEE DR13 and synthetic stellar spectra. When our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Sebastien Fabbro , Kim Venn , Teaghan O'Briain , Spencer Bialek , Collin Kielty , Farbod Jahandar , Stephanie Monty

We describe a self-consistent spectrum analysis technique employing non-LTE line formation, which allows precise atmospheric parameters of massive stars to be derived: 1sigma-uncertainties as low as ~1% in effective temperature and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Maria-Fernanda Nieva , Norbert Przybilla

The SEGUE survey obtained 240,000 moderate resolution (R = 1800) spectra from 3900 - 9000 Angstroms of fainter Milky Way stars (14.0 < g < 20.3) of a wide variety of spectral types, both main sequence and evolved objects, with the goal of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-27 II SEGUE Collaboration , Brian Yanny , Constance Rockosi , Heidi Jo Newberg , Gillian R. Knapp

The study of stellar parameters of planet-hosting stars, such as metallicity and chemical abundances, help us to understand the theory of planet formation and stellar evolution. Here, we present a catalogue of accurate stellar atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 S. Alves , L. Benamati , N. C. Santos , V. Zh. Adibekyan , S. G. Sousa , G. Israelian , J. R. De Medeiros , C. Lovis , S. Udry

To investigate in more details of Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution (SAGE) and in a huge sample, we are performing a northern sky photometric survey named SAGES with the SAGE photometric system, which consists of 8 filters:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jie Zheng , Gang Zhao , Wei Wang , Zhou Fan , Ke-Feng Tan , Chun Li , Fang Zuo

To use libraries of observed stellar spectra, one needs to know the atmospheric parameters of the stars associated to those spectra. It is, however, hard to know what are the real levels of precision and accuracy of these parameters. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 R. Smiljanic , A. J. Korn , A. R. Casey , the Gaia-ESO Survey consortium

Planetary studies demand precise and accurate stellar parameters as input to infer the planetary properties. Different methods often provide different results that could lead to biases in the planetary parameters. In this work, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 M. Tsantaki , S. G. Sousa , N. C. Santos , M. Montalto , E. Delgado-Mena , A. Mortier , V. Adibekyan , G. Israelian

The availability of large datasets containing stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in the Milky Way, particularly within the Galactic disk, is essential for advancing our understanding of the Galaxy's stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Mingxu Sun , Bingqiu Chen , Baokun Sun , Tao Wang , Zheng Yu , Baisong Zhang , Lin Zhang , Yuxi Bao , Guangya Zeng , Ming Yang , Wenyuan Cui

The measurement of atmospheric parameters is fundamental for scientific research using stellar spectra. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), scheduled to be launched in 2024, will provide researchers with hundreds of millions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 JiaRui Rao , HaiLiang Chen , JianPing Xiong , LuQian Wang , YanJun Guo , JiaJia Li , Chao Liu , ZhanWen Han , XueFei Chen

Optical high-resolution spectra of five central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPN) in the Galactic Bulge have been obtained with Keck/HIRES in order to derive their parameters. Since the distance of the objects is quite well known, such a…

An empirical method of modeling the stellar spectrum of galaxies is proposed, based on two successive applications of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). PCA is first applied to the newly available stellar library STELIB, supplemented by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cheng Li , Ting-Gui Wang , Hong-Yan Zhou , Xiao-Bo Dong , Fu-Zhen Cheng

The Spectral Galaxy Pairs (SGPs) are defined as the composite galaxy spectra which contain two independent redshift systems. These spectra are useful for studying dust properties of the foreground galaxies. In this paper, a total of 165…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-04 Haifeng Yang , Ali Luo , Xiaoyan Chen , Jifu Zhang , Wen Hou , Jianghui Cai , Peng Wei , Juanjuan Ren , Xiaojie Liu , Yongheng Zhao

Modern large-scale photometric surveys have provided us with multi-band photometries of billions of stars. Determining the stellar atmospheric parameters, such as the effective temperature (\teff) and metallicities (\feh), absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Mingxu Sun , Bingqiu Chen , Helong Guo , He Zhao , Ming Yang , Wenyuan Cui

Temperature and luminosity are the two key diagnostics of a star, yet these cannot come directly from survey data, but must be imputed by comparing those data to models. SED fitting offers a high-precision method to obtain both parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 I. McDonald , A. A. Zijlstra , N. J. Cox , J. Bernard-Salas

Context. An increasing number of high-resolution stellar spectra is available today thanks to many past and ongoing extensive spectroscopic surveys. Consequently, the scientific community needs automatic procedures to derive atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 S. Blanco-Cuaresma , C. Soubiran , U. Heiter , P. Jofré

We present a new stellar atmosphere interpolator which we will use to compute stellar population models based on empirical and/or synthetic spectra. We combined observed and synthetic stellar spectra in order to achieve more or less uniform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Nikolay Podorvanyuk , Igor Chilingarian , Ivan Katkov

We present an updated catalog of stellar parameters, including effective temperature, luminosity classification, and metallicity, for over fifty million stars from the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) DR4 and Gaia DR3. The accuracy of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Yang Huang , Timothy C. Beers