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In this paper, we present a deep learning system approach to estimating luminosity, effective temperature, and surface gravity of O-type stars using the optical region of the stellar spectra. In previous work, we compare a set of machine…

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Context. Stellar parameters are among the most important characteristics in studies of stars, which are based on atmosphere models in traditional methods. However, time cost and brightness limits restrain the efficiency of spectral…

Theoretical stellar spectra rely on model stellar atmospheres computed based on our understanding of the physical laws at play in the stellar interiors. These models, coupled with atomic and molecular line databases, are used to generate…

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Mass-to-light versus colour relations (MLCRs), derived from stellar population synthesis models, are widely used to estimate galaxy stellar masses (M$_*$) yet a detailed investigation of their inherent biases and limitations is still…

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Asteroseismology is the study of resonant oscillations of stars to infer their internal structure and dynamics. It is also a powerful tool for precisely determining stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity, and age. The…

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Data-driven models, which apply machine learning to infer physical properties from large quantities of data, have become increasingly important for extracting stellar properties from spectra. In general, these methods have been applied to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Logan Sizemore , Diego Llanes , Marina Kounkel , Brian Hutchinson , Keivan G. Stassun , Vedant Chandra

Scaling relations are very useful tools for estimating unknown stellar quantities. Within this framework, eclipsing binaries are ideal for this goal because their mass and radius are known with a very good level of accuracy, leading to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 João Fernandes , Ricardo Gafeira , Johannes Andersen

Asteroseismic observations are crucial to constrain stellar models with precision. Bayesian Estimation of STellar Parameters (BESTP) is a tool that utilizes Bayesian statistics and nested sampling Monte Carlo algorithm to search for the…

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The detection and subsequent characterisation of exoplanets are intimately linked to the characteristics of their host star. Therefore, it is necessary to study the star in detail in order to understand the formation history and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. G. Soto , J. S. Jenkins

Astronomy is in an era where all-sky surveys are mapping the Galaxy. The plethora of photometric, spectroscopic, asteroseismic and astrometric data allows us to characterise the comprising stars in detail. Here we quantify to what extent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 George C. Angelou , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

The determination of accurate stellar parameters of giant stars is essential for our understanding of such stars in general and as exoplanet host stars in particular. Precise stellar masses are vital for determining the lower mass limit of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Stephan Stock , Sabine Reffert , Andreas Quirrenbach

We present a catalog of 948,216 stars with mass label and a catalog of 163,105 red clump (RC) stars with mass and age labels simultaneously. The training dataset is cross matched from the LAMOST (The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Qi-Da Li , Hai-Feng Wang , Yang-Ping Luo , Qing Li , Li-Cai Deng , Yuan-Sen Ting

There is growing evidence that M-dwarf stars suffer radius inflation when compared to theoretical models, suggesting that models are missing some key physics required to completely describe stars at effective temperatures $(T_{\rm SED})$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Sam Morrell , Tim Naylor

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We present a novel statistical algorithm, Stellar Ages, which currently infers the age, metallicity, and extinction posterior distributions of stellar populations from their magnitudes. While this paper focuses on these parameters, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Joseph J. Guzman , Jeremiah W. Murphy , Andres F. Barrientos , Benjamin F. Williams , Julianne J. Dalcanton

We present the results of an analysis aimed at testing the accuracy and precision of the PARSEC v1.2S library of stellar evolution models, in a Bayesian framework, to infer stellar parameters. We mainly employ the online DEBCat catalogue by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-22 Carlos del Burgo , Carlos Allende Prieto

Mass and radius are two fundamental properties for characterising exoplanets, but only for a relatively small fraction of exoplanets are they both available. Mass is often derived from radial velocity measurements, while the radius is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 S. Ulmer-Moll , N. C. Santos , P. Figueira , J. Brinchmann , J. P. Faria

Motivated by previous findings that the magnitude gap between certain satellite galaxy and the central galaxy can be used to improve the estimation of halo mass, we carry out a systematic study of the information content of different member…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Yanrui Zhou , Jiaxin Han

Gaia DR3 provides radial velocities for 33 million stars and spectroscopically derived atmospheric parameters for more than five million targets. When combined with the astrometric data, these allow us to derive orbital and stellar…

Coupling stellar feedback to the evolution of individual stars, as opposed to averaging over the initial mass function (IMF), substantially improves the fidelity of galaxy formation simulations by capturing stochastic population effects.…

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