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To date, we have access to enormous inventories of stellar spectra that allow the extraction of atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances essential in stellar studies. However, characterizing such a large amount of data is complex and…

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 describe the Zonal Atmospheric Stellar Parameters Estimator (ZASPE), a new algorithm, and its associated code, for determining precise stellar atmospheric parameters and their uncertainties from high resolution echelle spectra of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rafael Brahm , Andres Jordan , Joel Hartman , Gaspar Bakos

This study introduces a line list for the abundance analysis of F and G type stars across the 4080-9675 A wavelength range. A systematic search employing lower excitation potentials, accurate log gf values, and an updated multiplet table…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 T. Şahin , F. Güney , S. A. Şentürk , N. Çınar , M. Marışmak

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

In the era of industrial Galactic astronomy and multi-object spectroscopic stellar surveys, the sample sizes and the number of available stellar chemical abundances have reached dimensions in which it has become difficult to process all the…

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has built the largest moderately high-resolution (R=22, 500) spectroscopic map of the stars across the Milky Way, and including dust-obscured areas. The APOGEE Stellar…

High-resolution stellar spectra offer valuable insights into atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions. However, their inherent complexity and high-dimensionality present challenges in fully utilizing the information they contain. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Qianyu Fan

Elements with weak and blended spectral features in stellar spectra are challenging to measure and require specialized analysis methods to precisely measure their chemical abundances. In this work, we have created a catalog of approximately…

Stellar elemental abundances are important for understanding the fundamental properties of a star or stellar group, such as age and evolutionary history, as well as the composition of an orbiting planet. However, as abundance measurement…

Deriving accurate carbon abundance estimates for a wide variety of stars is still complex due to the difficulties in properly measuring it from atomic and molecular lines. The aim of this paper is to analyse the carbon abundance…

The light emitted from the stellar photosphere serves as a unique signature for the nature of stars. The behaviour of these stellar lines depend upon the surface temperature, mass, evolutionary status and chemical composition of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Priyanka Chaturvedi , Abhijit Chakraborty , B. G. Anandarao

Chemical abundance determinations from stellar spectra are challenged by observational noise, limitations in stellar models, and departures from simplifying assumptions. While traditional and supervised machine learning methods have made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Theosamuele Signor , Paula Jofré , Hernan Lira , Sara Vitali , Luis Martí , Nayat Sánchez-Pi

Stellar abundance measurements are subject to systematic errors that induce extra scatter and artificial correlations in elemental abundance patterns. We derive empirical calibration offsets to remove systematic trends with surface gravity…

The current and planned high-resolution, high-multiplexity stellar spectroscopic surveys, as well as the swelling amount of under-utilized data present in public archives have led to an increasing number of efforts to automate the crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 L. Sbordone , E. Caffau , P. Bonifacio , S. Duffau

To analyse stellar populations in galaxies a widely used method is to apply theoretically derived responses of stellar spectra and line indices to element abundance variations, hereafter referred to as response functions. These are applied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. E. Sansom , A. de Castro Milone , A. Vazdekis , P. Sanchez-Blazquez

We present a new automatic code (ARES) for determining equivalent widths of the absorption lines present in stellar spectra. We also describe its use for determining fundamental spectroscopic stellar parameters. The code is written in C++…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. G. Sousa , N. C. Santos , G. Israelian , M. Mayor , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro

Data from the SDSS-IV / Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2) have been released as part of SDSS Data Releases 13 (DR13) and 14 (DR14). These include high resolution H-band spectra, radial velocities, and derived…

In the past years we have made great efforts to reduce the statistical and systematic uncertainties in stellar parameter and chemical abundance determinations of early B-type stars. Both the construction of robust model atoms for non-LTE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-18 Maria-Fernanda Nieva , Norbert Przybilla

*Context: The optimisation of new multiplex spectrographs (resolution, wavelength range,...), their associated surveys (choice of setup), or their parameterisation pipelines require methods that estimate which wavelengths contain useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Georges Kordopatis , Vanessa Hill , Karin Lind