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The asteroseismic and planetary studies, like all research related to stars, need precise and accurate stellar atmospheric parameters as input. We aim at deriving the effective temperature (Teff), the surface gravity (log g), the…

The cool temperatures of M dwarf atmospheres enable complex molecular chemistry, making robust characterization of M dwarf compositions a long-standing challenge. Recent modifications to spectral synthesis pipelines have enabled more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Aida Behmard , Melissa K. Ness , Andrew R. Casey , Ruth Angus , Katia Cunha , Diogo Souto , Yuxi , Lu , Jennifer A. Johnson

We present spectroscopic determinations of the effective temperatures, surface gravities and metallicities for 21 M-dwarfs observed at high-resolution (R $\sim$ 22,500) in the \textit{H}-band as part of the SDSS-IV APOGEE survey. The…

M dwarfs are prominent targets of planet search projects, and their chemical composition is crucial to understanding the formation process or interior of orbiting exoplanets. However, measurements of elemental abundances of M dwarfs have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-30 Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa , Wako Aoki , Takayuki Kotani , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Masashi Omiya , Ansgar Reiners , Mathias Zechmeister

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

Existing and upcoming instrumentation is collecting large amounts of astrophysical data, which require efficient and fast analysis techniques. We present a deep neural network architecture to analyze high-resolution stellar spectra and…

The discrepancies between theoretical and observed spectra, and the systematic differences between various spectroscopic parameter estimates, complicate the determination of atmospheric parameters of M-type stars. In this work, we present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Bing Du , A-Li Luo , Song Wang , Yinbi Li , Cai-Xia Qu , Xiao Kong , Yan-xin Guo , Yi-han Song , Fang Zuo

Context. M-type subdwarfs are metal-poor low-mass stars and probe for the old populations in our Galaxy. Accurate knowledge of their atmospheric parameters and especially the composition is essential for understanding the chemical history…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 A. S. Rajpurohit , C. Reyle , F. Allard , D. Homeier , A. Bayo , O. Mousis , S. Rajpurohit , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado

Aims. The derivation of spectroscopic parameters for M dwarf stars is very important in the fields of stellar and exoplanet characterization. The goal of this work is the creation of an automatic computational tool, able to derive quickly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Antoniadis-Karnavas , S. G. Sousa , E. Delgado-Mena , N. C. Santos , G. D. C. Teixeira , V. Neves

We present the optical spectra of 338 nearby M dwarfs, and compute their spectral types, effective temperatures ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$), and radii. Our spectra have been obtained using several optical spectrometers with spectral resolutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Yohei Koizumi , Masayuki Kuzuhara , Masashi Omiya , Teruyuki Hirano , John Wisniewski , Wako Aoki , Bun'ei Sato

We present a comparison of low-resolution spectra of 60 stars covering the whole M-dwarf sequence. Using the most recent PHOENIX BT-Settl stellar model atmospheres (see paper by F. Allard, in this book) we do a first quantitative compari-…

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We present a model-fit pipeline to determine the stellar parameters of M-type dwarfs, which is an improvement upon our previous work described in Hejazi et al. 2020. We apply this pipeline to analyze the low-resolution (R~2000) spectra of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Neda Hejazi , Sebastien Lepine , Thomas Nordlander

We present atmospheric parameters for about 300 stars of different chemical composition, whose spectra will be used to study the galactic enrichment of Fe and light elements. These parameters were derived using an homogenous iterative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Gratton , E. Carretta , F. Castelli

M dwarfs are key targets for high-resolution spectroscopic analyses due to a high incidence of these stars in the solar neighbourhood and their importance as exoplanetary hosts. Several methodological challenges make such analyses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 T. Olander , U. Heiter , O. Kochukhov

We performed extensive tests of the accuracy of atmospheric parameter determination for FGK stars based on the spectrum fitting procedure Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME). Our stellar sample consists of 13 objects, including the Sun, in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 T. Ryabchikova , N. Piskunov , Yu. Pakhomov , V. Tsymbal , A. Titarenko , T. Sitnova , S. Alexeeva , L. Fossati , L. Mashonkina

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Universe and are hosts of a rich diversity of planetary companions. In many cases, planets orbiting M dwarfs can be described in remarkable detail. What makes the difference is how deeply we can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Carlos Cifuentes

M dwarfs are important targets in the search for Earth-like exoplanets due to their small masses and low luminosities. Several ongoing and upcoming space missions are targeting M dwarfs for this reason, and the ESA PLATO mission is one of…

We present a spectroscopic and photometric calibration to derive effective temperatures $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and metallicities [Fe/H] for M dwarfs, based on a Principal Component Analysis of 147 spectral indices measured off moderate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 E. Costa-Almeida , G. F. Porto de Mello , R. E. Giribaldi , D. Lorenzo Oliveira , M. L. Ubaldo-Melo

The relativley large spread in the derived metallicities ([Fe/H]) of M dwarfs shows that various approaches have not yet converged to consistency. The presence of strong molecular features, and incomplete line lists for the corresponding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anna Önehag , Ulrike Heiter , Bengt Gustafsson , Nikolai Piskunov , Bertrand Plez , Ansgar Reiners