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Stellar atmosphere modelling predicts the luminosity and temperature of a star, together with parameters such as the effective gravity and the metallicity, by reproducing the observed spectral energy distribution. Most observational data…

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In recent years, the study of the Milky Way has significantly advanced due to extensive spectroscopic surveys of its stars, complemented by astroseismic and astrometric data. However, it remains disjoint from recent advancements in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-30 Piyush Sharda , Yuan-Sen Ting , Neige Frankel

Integral field spectroscopy can map astronomical objects spatially and spectroscopically. Due to instrumental and atmospheric effects, it is common for integral field instruments to yield a sampling of the sky image that is both irregular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Dou Liu , Michael R. Blanton , David R. Law

State-space models (SSMs) are a powerful statistical tool for modelling time-varying systems via a latent state. In these models, the latent state is never directly observed. Instead, a sequence of data points related to the state are…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-22 Benjamin Cox , Victor Elvira

Aims:To support the computation and evolutionary interpretation of periods associated with the rotational modulation, oscillations, and variability of stars located in the CoRoT fields, we are conducting a spectroscopic survey for stars…

Whether it be due to rapid rotation or binary interactions, deviations from spherical symmetry are common in massive stars. These deviations from spherical symmetry are known to cause non-uniform distributions of various parameters across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Michael Abdul-Masih

In this note we present the starry_process code, which implements an interpretable Gaussian process (GP) for modeling variability in stellar light curves. As dark starspots rotate in and out of view, the total flux received from a distant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rodrigo Luger , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Christina Hedges

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 T. Kuntzer , M. Tewes , F. Courbin

Detailed chemical abundances of Galactic stars are needed in order to improve our knowledge of the formation and evolution of our galaxy, the Milky Way. We took advantage of the GIANO archive spectra to select a sample of Galactic disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Caffau , P. Bonifacio , E. Oliva , S. Korotin , L. Capitanio , S. Andrievsky , R. Collet , L. Sbordone , S. Duffau , N. Sanna , L. Origlia , N. Ryde , H. -G. Ludwig

Understanding the atmospheric parameters of stars on the top of the RGB is essential to reveal the chemical composition of the Milky Way, as they can be used to probe the farthest parts of our Galaxy. Our goal is to determine the chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Z. Dencs , A. Derekas , T. Mitnyan , M. F. Andersen , B. Cseh , F. Grundahl , V. Hegedűs , J. Kovács , L. Kriskovics , P. L. Palle , A. Pál , L. Szigeti , Sz. Mészáros

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers depend on the reduced information from catalogs, necessitating careful data processing and feature extraction. In this study, we employ a supervised machine learning method (GoogLeNet) to automatically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Shiliang Zhang , Guanwen Fang , Jie Song , Ran Li , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

With the advent of billion-galaxy surveys with complex data, the need of the hour is to efficiently model galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) with robust uncertainty quantification. The combination of Simulation-Based inference…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Gourav Khullar , Brian Nord , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Jason Poh , Fei Xu

Binary interactions during the AGB phase can lead to the formation of chemically peculiar stars with overabundances of s-process elements. Only a few hundreds of these stars have been subject to detailed chemical or dynamical studies. This…

Studies of stellar populations, understood to mean collections of stars with common spatial, kinematic, chemical, and/or age distributions, have been reinvigorated during the last decade by the advent of large-area sky surveys such as SDSS,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Zeljko Ivezic , Timothy C. Beers , Mario Juric

We have derived elemental abundances of three field red horizontal branch stars using high-resolution (R$\simeq$ 45,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N $\gtrsim$ 200) $H$ and $K$ band spectra obtained with the Immersion Grating Infrared…

Space-based projects are providing a wealth of high-quality asteroseismic data, including frequencies for a large number of stars showing solar-like oscillations. These data open the prospect for precise determinations of key stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. -O. Quirion , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , T. Arentoft

We present Gemini/GNIRS cross-dispersed near-infrared spectra of 12 nearby early-type galaxies, with the aim of testing commonly used stellar population synthesis models. We select a subset of galaxies from the atlas/ sample which span a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 C. M. Baldwin , R. M. McDermid , H. Kuntschner , C. Maraston , C. Conroy

Measurements of radial velocity variations from the spectroscopic monitoring of stars and their companions are essential for a broad swath of astrophysics, providing access to the fundamental physical properties that dictate all phases of…

The combination of photometry, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the chemically peculiar stars often aims to study the complex physical phenomena such as stellar pulsation, chemical inhomogeneity, magnetic field and their interplay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Santosh Joshi , Eugene Semenko , A. Moiseeva , Kaushal Sharma , Y. C. Joshi , M. Sachkov , Harinder P. Singh , Yerra Bharat Kumar

Context: The technique of matching synthetic spectra computed with theoretical stellar atmosphere models to the observations is widely used in deriving fundamental parameters of massive stars. When applied to binaries, however, these models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Palate , G. Koenigsberger , G. Rauw , D. Harrington , E. Moreno