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We have developed and implemented an iterative algorithm of flux calibration for the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic anti-center (LSS-GAC). For a given LSS-GAC plate, the spectra are first processed with a set of nominal…

The upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) slitless spectroscopic survey poses a challenge of flux calibration, which requires a large number of flux-standard stars. In this work, we design an uncertainty-aware residual attention…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Lin Yang , Haibo Yuan , Fuqing Duan , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Kai Xiao , Shuai Xu , Jinming Zhang

All of the 14 subfields of the Kepler field have been observed at least once with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST, Xinglong Observatory, China) during the 2012-2014 observation seasons. There are 88,628…

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has obtained more than 23 million spectra, opening an unprecedented opportunity to study stellar physics, as well as the formation and evolution of our Milky Way. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Chun-qian Li , Jian-rong Shi , Hong-liang Yan , Zhong-rui Bai , Jiang-tao Wang , Ming-yi Ding

Sky subtraction is the key technique in data reduction of multi-fiber spectra. Knowledge of the related instrument character is necessary to determine the method adopted in sky subtraction. In this study, we described the sky subtraction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Zhong-Rui Bai , Hao-Tong Zhang , Hai-Long Yuan , Guang-Wei Li , Jian-Jun Chen , Ya-Juan Lei , Hui-Qin Yang , Yi-Qiao Dong , Gang Wang , Yong-Heng Zhao

Star surveys and model analyses show that many stars have absolute stable fluxes as good as 3% in 0.3-35{\mu}m wavebands and about 1% in the visible wavebands. The relative flux calibrations between stars are better than 0.2%. Some stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-10 Chun Xu

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) started median-resolution spectroscopic (MRS, R$\sim$7500) survey since October 2018. The main scientific goals of MRS, including binary stars, pulsators, and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Jianping Xiong , Bo Zhang , Chao Liu , Jiao Li , Yongheng Zhao , Yonghui Hou

While the near-infrared wavelength regime is becoming more and more important for astrophysics there is a marked lack of spectrophotometric standard star data that would allow the flux calibration of such data. Furthermore, flux calibrating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-11 S. Moehler , A. Modigliani , W. Freudling , N. Giammichele , A. Gianninas , A. Gonneau , W. Kausch , A. Lancon , S. Noll , T. Rauch , J. Vinther

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) spectroscopic survey aims to deliver high-quality low-resolution ($R > 200$) slitless spectra for hundreds of millions of targets down to a limiting magnitude of about 21 mag, distributed within a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Haibo Yuan , Dingshan Deng , Yang Sun

Resolved rotation curves (RCs) are the gold-standard measurements for inferring dark matter distributions in $\Lambda$CDM and testing alternative theories of dynamics in galaxies. However they are expensive to obtain, making them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-23 Tariq Yasin , Harry Desmond

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Low Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LRS) provides massive spectroscopic data of M-type stars, and the derived stellar parameters could bring vital help to various…

We derive stellar parameters and abundances (`stellar labels') of 40,034 late-B and A-type main-sequence stars extracted from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Medium Resolution Survey (LAMOST--MRS). The primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Weijia Sun , Xiao-Wei Duan , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Bo Zhang , Chao Liu

We present a method to estimate distances to stars with spectroscopically derived stellar parameters. The technique is a Bayesian approach with likelihood estimated via comparison of measured parameters to a grid of stellar isochrones, and…

In this paper, we propose a spectroscopy based Stellar Color Regression (SCR) method to perform accurate color calibration for modern imaging surveys, taking advantage of millions of stellar spectra now available. The method is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Haibo Yuan , Xiaowei Liu , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Huihua Zhang , Bingqiu Chen

This paper investigates the problem of estimating three stellar atmospheric physical parameters and thirteen elemental abundances for medium-resolution spectra from Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Xiangru Li , Xiaoyu Zhang , Shengchun Xiong , Yulong Zheng , Hui Li

From Oct. 2019 to Apr. 2020, LAMOST performs a time-domain spectroscopic survey of four $K$2 plates with both low- and med-resolution observations. The low-resolution spectroscopic survey gains 282 exposures ($\approx$46.6 hours) over 25…

We calibrate spectrophotometric optical spectra of 32 stars commonly used as standard stars, referenced to 14 stars already on the HST-based CALSPEC flux system. Observations of CALSPEC and non-CALSPEC stars were obtained with the SuperNova…

Low-resolution spectra are proved competitive to high-resolution spectra in determining many stellar labels at comparable precision. It is useful to consider the spectral information content when assessing the capability of a stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Bo Zhang , Chao Liu , Chun-Qian Li , Li-Cai Deng , Tai-Sheng Yan , Jian-Rong Shi

As one of the best ground-based photometric dataset, Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) has been widely used as the reference to calibrate other surveys. In this work, we present an independent validation and re-calibration of the PS1 photometry using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Kai Xiao , Haibo Yuan

We present a spectroscopic redshift catalog from the LAMOST Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Pointing Area (LaCoSSPAr) in the Southern Galactic Cap (SGC), which is designed to observe all sources (Galactic and extra-galactic) by using…

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