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We describe sophisticated new Bayesian analysis methods that make it possible to estimate quickly the masses and radii of rapidly rotating, oblate neutron stars by fitting oblate-star waveform models to energy-resolved observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

New numerical models of line-driven stellar winds of late O stars are presented. Statistical equilibrium (NLTE) equations of the most abundant elements are solved. Properly obtained occupation numbers are used to calculate consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiri Krticka , Jiri Kubat

Multi-dimensional unified model atmospheres with winds of massive stars have so far been studied under the assumption of equal flux, Planck, and energy weighted mean opacities, which effectively means these models have been in local…

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

Absorption features in stellar atmospheres are often used to calibrate photocentric velocities for kinematic analysis of further spectral lines. The Li feature at $\sim$ 6708 {\AA} is commonly used, especially in the case of young stellar…

Neutral Fe lines are the most abundant in the spectrum of late stars. They are used to obtain different basic stellar parameters such as relative abundances, surface gravity, and effective temperature. However, the centers of many of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 M. C. Vieytes

We introduce the classical stellar atmosphere problem and describe in detail its numerical solution. The problem consists of the solution of the radiation transfer equations under the constraints of hydrostatic, radiative and statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Werner , S. Dreizler

Deriving stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances from stellar spectra is crucial for understanding the evolution of the Milky Way. By performing a fitting with MARCS model atmospheric theoretical synthetic spectra combined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Rui Wang , A-Li Luo , Shuo Zhang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Teaghan O'Briain , LAMOST MRS Collaboration

We perform spectral fitting for a set of O-type stars based on self-consistent wind solutions, which provide mass-loss rate and velocity profiles directly derived from the initial stellar parameters. The great advantage of this…

Medium resolution J-band spectroscopy of individual red supergiant stars is a promising tool to investigate the chemical composition of the young stellar population in star forming galaxies. As a continuation of recent work on iron and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Maria Bergemann , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Matthias Wueurl , Bertrand Plez , Ben Davies , Zach Gazak

We present the extension of our NextGen model atmosphere grid to the regime of giant stars. The input physics of the models presented here is nearly identical to the NextGen dwarf atmosphere models, however spherical geometry is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter H. Hauschildt , France Allard , Jason Ferguson , E. Baron , David R. Alexander

The increasing number of spectra gathered by spectroscopic sky surveys and transiting exoplanet follow-up has pushed the community to develop automated tools for atmospheric stellar parameters determination. Here we present a novel approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Luca Malavolta , Christophe Lovis , Francesco Pepe , Christopher Sneden , Stephane Udry

Achieving high accuracy and precision in stellar parameter and chemical composition determinations is challenging in massive star spectroscopy. On one hand, the target selection for an unbiased sample build-up is complicated by several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Maria-Fernanda Nieva , Norbert Przybilla

We combine results from interferometry, asteroseismology and spectroscopic analyses to determine accurate fundamental parameters (mass, radius and effective temperature) of 10 bright solar-type stars covering the H-R diagram from spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Bruntt

The program package SME (Spectroscopy Made Easy), designed to perform an analysis of stellar spectra using spectral fitting techniques, was updated due to adding new functions (isotopic and hyperfine splittins) in VALD and including grids…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 N. Piskunov , T. Ryabchikova , Yu. Pakhomov , T. Sitnova , S. Alexeeva , L. Mashonkina , T. Nordlander

Stellar models are calculated in the approximation of a uniform density distribution. Variational method was used for determination of the boundary of a stability loss, for stellar masses in the range from 2 up to $10^5$ $M_{\odot}$. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-06 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , E. A. Patraman

Stellar parameters and abundances of Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Eu are determined for four very metal-poor stars (-2.66 < [Fe/H] < -2.15) based on non-LTE line formation and analysis of high-resolution (R ~60000 and 90000) high…

In this paper, we developed a spectral emulator based on the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Stellar Library (MaStar) and a grouping optimization strategy to estimate effective temperature (T_eff), surface gravity (log…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Jun-chao Liang , A-Li Luo , Yin-Bi Li , Xiao-Xiao Ma , Shuo Li , Shu-Guo Ma , Hai-Ling Lu , Yun-Jin Zhang , Bing Du , Xiao Kong

Non-LTE calculations are performed for NII in stellar atmospheric models appropriate to main sequence B-stars to produce new grids of equivalent widths for the strongest NII lines commonly used for abundance analysis. There is reasonable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 A. Ahmed , T. A. A. Sigut

In this review given at the Hot and Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Evolution conference, I present the state of the art in red supergiant star atmosphere modelling. The last generation of hydrostatic 1D LTE MARCS models publicly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-23 Bertrand Plez