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We present a $0.7-2.5\mu m$ spectral library of 284 stars observed with the medium-resolution infrared spectrograph, SpeX, at the 3.0 meter NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea, Hawaii. This library extends the metallicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexa Villaume , Charlie Conroy , Benjamin Johnson , John Rayner , Andrew W. Mann , Pieter van Dokkum

We derived radial profiles and inner/outer gradients of various stellar population (SP) properties for 124 bright dwarf galaxies, $10^{7.53}\leq M_*/M_\odot\leq 10^{9.06}$, from the MaNDala sample, using integral field spectroscopy…

Machine learning allows efficient extraction of physical properties from stellar spectra that have been obtained by large surveys. The viability of ML approaches has been demonstrated for spectra covering a variety of wavelengths and…

The MaNGA project has obtained IFU data for several thousand nearby galaxies, including barred galaxies. With the two dimensional spectral and kinematic information provided by IFUs, we can measure the pattern speed of a barred galaxy,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Rui Guo , Shude Mao , E. Athanassoula , Hongyu Li , Junqiang Ge , R. J. Long , Michael Merrifield , Karen Masters

With the plentiful information available in the Gaia BP/RP spectra, there is significant scope for applying discriminative models to extract stellar atmospheric parameters and abundances. We describe an approach to leverage an `Uncertain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Connor P. Fallows , Jason L. Sanders

The advent of space-based observatories such as CoRoT and Kepler has enabled the testing of our understanding of stellar evolution on thousands of stars. Evolutionary models typically require five input parameters, the mass, initial Helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Kuldeep Verma , Shravan Hanasoge , Jishnu Bhattacharya , H M Antia , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Context: Empirical libraries of stellar spectra play an important role in different fields. For example, they are used as reference for the automatic determination of atmospheric parameters, or for building synthetic stellar populations to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yue Wu , Harinder P. Singh , Philippe Prugniel , Ranjan Gupta , Mina Koleva

MEGARA (Multi Espectr{\'o}grafo en GTC de Alta Resoluci{\'o}n para Astronom{\'\i}a) is an optical (3650~--~9750\AA), fibre-fed, medium-high spectral resolution (R = 6000, 12000, 20000) instrument for the GTC 10.4m telescope, commissioned in…

We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides extensive information on the astrophysical properties of stars, such as effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and luminosity, for over 470 million objects. However, as Gaia's stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Aleksandra S. Avdeeva , Dana A. Kovaleva , Oleg Yu. Malkov , Gang Zhao

Recently the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) published its first data release (DR1), which is ranked as the largest stellar spectra dataset in the world so far. We combine the PASTEL catalog and SIMBAD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Hua Gao , Huawei Zhang , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Ali Luo , Haotong Zhang , Yue Wu , Yong Zhang , Guangwei Li , Bing Du

The increasing number of spectra gathered by spectroscopic sky surveys and transiting exoplanet follow-up has pushed the community to develop automated tools for atmospheric stellar parameters determination. Here we present a novel approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Luca Malavolta , Christophe Lovis , Francesco Pepe , Christopher Sneden , Stephane Udry

We applied machine learning to the entire data history of ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument. Our primary goal was to recover the physical properties of the observed objects, with a secondary emphasis on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Vojtěch Cvrček , Martino Romaniello , Radim Šára , Wolfram Freudling , Pascal Ballester

Accurate determination of stellar atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances is crucial for Galactic archeology via large-scale spectroscopic surveys. In this paper, we estimate stellar atmospheric parameters -- effective temperature…

The second Gaia data release (Gaia-DR2) contains, beyond the astrometry, three-band photometry for 1.38 billion sources. We have used these three broad bands to infer stellar effective temperatures, Teff, for all sources brighter than G=17…

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has acquired tens of millions of low-resolution spectra of stars. This paper investigated the parameter estimation problem for these spectra. To this end, we proposed a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Xiangru Li , Boyu Lin

Strengthening the synergy between simulations and observations is essential to test galaxy formation and evolution theories. To achieve this goal, in the first paper of this series, we presented a method to generate mock SDSS-IV/MaNGA…

Large-scale spectroscopic surveys have collectively observed millions of stars across the Milky Way, but each derives stellar labels using independent pipelines with distinct modelling assumptions, introducing systematic offsets that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Jeff Shen , Joshua S. Speagle , Shirley Ho

This is the first paper in our series on the combined analysis of the Dynamics and stellar Population (DynPop) for the MaNGA survey in the final SDSS Data Release 17 (DR17). Here we present a catalogue of dynamically-determined quantities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Kai Zhu , Shengdong Lu , Michele Cappellari , Ran Li , Shude Mao , Liang Gao

We use machine learning techniques to classify galaxy merger stages, which can unveil physical processes that drive the star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activities during galaxy interaction. The sample contains 4,690…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Yu-Yen Chang , Lihwai Lin , Hsi-An Pan , Chieh-An Lin , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Connor Bottrell , Pin-Wei Wang