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Red clump stars (RCs) are useful tracers of distances, extinction, chemical abundances, and Galactic structures and kinematics. Accurate estimation of the RC parameters -- absolute magnitude and intrinsic color -- is the basis for obtaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Shu Wang , Xiaodian Chen

The mass of a star is arguably its most fundamental parameter. For red giant stars, tracers luminous enough to be observed across the Galaxy, mass implies a stellar evolution age. It has proven to be extremely difficult to infer ages and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 M. Ness , David W. Hogg , H-W. Rix , M. Martig , Marc H. Pinsonneault , A. Y. Q Ho

Data-driven analysis methods can help to infer physical properties of red giant stars where "gold-standard" asteroseismic data are not available. The study of optical and infrared spectra of red giant stars with data-driven analyses has…

The NASA K2 mission that succeeded the nominal Kepler mission observed several hundreds of thousands of stars during its operations. While most of the stars were observed in single campaigns of 80 days, some of them were targeted for more…

We measure carbon and nitrogen abundances to $\lesssim$ 0.1 dex for 450,000 giant stars from their low-resolution (R$\sim$1800) LAMOST DR2 survey spectra. We use these [C/M] and [N/M] measurements, together with empirical relations based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Anna Y. Q. Ho , Hans-Walter Rix , Melissa K. Ness , David W. Hogg , Chao Liu , Yuan-Sen Ting

We investigated the theoretical biases affecting the asteroseismic grid-based estimates of stellar parameters in the presence of a mismatch between the heavy element mixture of observed stars and stellar models. We performed a controlled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

We describe data release 3 (DR3) of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The GAMA survey is a spectroscopic redshift and multi-wavelength photometric survey in three equatorial regions each of 60.0 deg^2 (G09, G12, G15), and two…

The Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) provides trigonometric parallaxes for 1.5 billion stars, with reduced systematics compared to Gaia Data Release 2 and reported precisions better by up to a factor of two. New to EDR3 is a tentative model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Joel C. Zinn

Previous measurements of stellar properties for K2 stars in the Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (EPIC; Huber et al. 2016) largely relied on photometry and proper motion measurements, with some added information from available spectra and…

We present estimates of stellar age and mass for 0.93 million Galactic disk main sequence turn-off and sub-giant stars from the LAMOST Galactic Spectroscopic Surveys. The ages and masses are determined by matching with stellar isochrones…

Sparked by the asteroseismic space revolution, ensemble studies have been used to produce empirical relations linking observed seismic properties and fundamental stellar properties. Cluster stars are particularly valuable because they have…

Context. When low and intermediate-mass stars leave the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, and before they reach the Planetary Nebulae stage, they enter a very brief and rather puzzling stellar evolutionary stage named post-AGB. Aims. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Iker González-Santamaría , Minia Manteiga , Arturo Manchado , Eva Villaver , Ana Ulla , Carlos Dafonte

Stellar physical and dynamical properties are essential knowledge to understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of our Galaxy. We produced an all-sky uniformly derived catalog of stellar astrophysical parameters (APs; age, mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Fouesneau , R. Andrae , T. Dharmawardena , J. Rybizki , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Demleitner

Galactic archeology has long been limited by a lack of precise masses and ages for metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's thick disk. However, with TESS providing a growing number of photometric observations, it is possible to calculate masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Corin Marasco , Jamie Tayar , David Nidever

We present an extensive peakbagging effort on Kepler data of $\sim$50 red giant stars in the open star cluster NGC 6819. By employing sophisticated pre-processing of the time series and Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques we extracted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 R. Handberg , K. Brogaard , A. Miglio , D. Bossini , Y. Elsworth , D. Slumstrup , G. R. Davies , W. J. Chaplin

The third Gaia data release contains, beyond the astrometry and photometry, dispersed light for hundreds of millions of sources from the Gaia prism spectra (BP and RP) and the spectrograph (RVS). This data release opens a new window on the…

Of the more than 150000 targets followed by the Kepler Mission, about 10% were selected as red giants. Due to their high scientific value, in particular for Galaxy population studies and stellar structure and evolution, their Kepler light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Stello , D. Huber , T. R. Bedding , O. Benomar , L. Bildsten , Y. P. Elsworth , R. L. Gilliland , B. Mosser , B. Paxton , T. R. White

The stellar atmospheric parameters and physical properties of stars in the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) are of great significance for the study of exoplanets, stellar activity, and asteroseismology. However, despite extensive effort over the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Bowen Zhang , Yang Huang , Timothy C. Beers , Kai Xiao , Jifeng Liu , Lei Jia , Henggeng Han , Zhirui Li , Chuanjie Zheng , Yongkang Sun , Ruifeng Shi , Hongrui Gu

This paper presents the first census of Galactic post-Asymptotic Giant Branch stars in the HR diagram. We combined Gaia DR3 parallax-based distances with extinction corrected integrated fluxes, and derived luminosities for a sample of 185…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 René D. Oudmaijer , Emma R. M. Jones , Miguel Vioque

We conducted an investigation on the chemical abundances of 4,316 stars in the red giant branch (RGB) phase from the recently released APO-K2 catalogue. Our aim was to characterize the abundance trends of the single elements with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti