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MEGARA is the optical integral field and multi-object spectrograph at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. We have created MEGASTAR, an empirical library of stellar spectra obtained using MEGARA at high resolution $R=20\,000$ (FWHM), available in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 M. Mollá , M. L. García-Vargas , I. Millán-Irigoyen , N. Cardiel , E. Carrasco , A. Gil de Paz , S. R. Berlanas , P. Gómez-Álvarez

We apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to the problem of parametric galaxy modeling, estimating posterior distributions of galaxy properties such as ellipticity and brightness for more than 100,000 images of galaxies taken from DC2, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 James J. Buchanan , Michael D. Schneider , Kerianne Pruett , Robert E. Armstrong

This work presents an approach (fitCMD) designed to obtain a comprehensive set of astrophysical parameters from colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of star clusters. Based on initial mass function (IMF) properties taken from isochrones, fitCMD…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Charles Bonatto

We present a method of fitting optical spectra of galaxies using a basis set of six vectors obtained from principal component analysis (PCA) of a library of synthetic spectra of 40000 star formation histories (SFHs). Using this library, we…

The light emitted from the stellar photosphere serves as a unique signature for the nature of stars. The behaviour of these stellar lines depend upon the surface temperature, mass, evolutionary status and chemical composition of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Priyanka Chaturvedi , Abhijit Chakraborty , B. G. Anandarao

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…

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

The study of stellar parameters of planet-hosting stars, such as metallicity and chemical abundances, help us to understand the theory of planet formation and stellar evolution. Here, we present a catalogue of accurate stellar atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-11 S. Alves , L. Benamati , N. C. Santos , V. Zh. Adibekyan , S. G. Sousa , G. Israelian , J. R. De Medeiros , C. Lovis , S. Udry

We present the general purpose spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting tool SED Analysis Through Markov Chains (SATMC). Utilizing Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) algorithms, SATMC fits an observed SED to SED templates or models of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 S. P. Johnson , G. W. Wilson , Y. Tang , K. S. Scott

We assess the impact of CaII 3934,3969 and NaI 5891,5897 absorption arising in the interstellar medium (ISM) on the SDSS-IV MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar) and produce corrected spectroscopy for 80% of the 24,162-star catalog. We model the…

We have obtained [Mg/Fe] measurements for 76.3% of the stars in the MILES spectral library used for understanding stellar atmospheres and stellar populations in galaxies and star clusters. These abundance ratios were obtained through (1) a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andre de Castro Milone , Anne E. Sansom , Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez

Libraries of stellar spectra, such as ELODIE (Prugniel & Soubiran 2001), CFLIB (Valdes et al. 2004), or MILES (S\'anchez-Bl\'azquez et al. 2006), are used for a variety of applications, and especially in modelling stellar populations (e. g.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 Kaushal Sharma , H. P. Singh , A. Kashyap , P. Prugniel

(Abridged) In a recent work we explored the dependence of galaxy stellar population properties derived from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting on the fitting parameters, e.g. SFHs, age grid, metallicity, IMF, dust reddening,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Janine Pforr , Claudia Maraston , Chiara Tonini

Based on luminosity contributions, we develop a spectroscopic modelling method to derive atmospheric parameters of component stars in binary systems. The method is designed for those spectra of binaries which show double-lined features due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiang-Lei Chen , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Rui Wang , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Wen Hou , Bo Qiu , Fang Zuo

A key aspect in the determination of stellar properties is the comparison of observational constraints with predictions from stellar models. Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale (AIMS) is an open source code that uses Bayesian…

Determining the physical characteristics of a star is an inverse problem consisting in estimating the parameters of models for the stellar structure and evolution, knowing certain observable quantities. We use a Bayesian approach to solve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bazot , S. Bourguignon , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Stellar spectra contain a large amount of information about the conditions in stellar atmospheres. However, extracting this information is challenging and demands comprehensive numerical modelling. Here, we present stellar spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 N. Kostogryz , A. I Shapiro , V. Witzke , D. Grant , H. R. Wakeford , K. B. Stevenson , S. K. Solanki , L. Gizon

The accuracy of the estimated stellar atmospheric parameter decreases evidently with the decreasing of spectral signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and there are a huge amount of this kind observations, especially in case of SNR$<$30. Therefore, it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Xiangru Li , Zhu Wang , Si Zeng , Caixiu Liao , Bing Du , X. Kong , Haining Li

Over the past 30 years, numerous large-scale photometric astronomical surveys have been conducted, including SDSS, Pan-STARRS, Gaia,2MASS, WISE, and others. These surveys provide extensive photometric measurements that can be used to infer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Mateusz Kapusta

presented. The 2.38 -- 4.08 micron wavelength-range of band 1 of ISO-SWS (Short-Wavelength Spectrometers on board of the Infrared Space Observatory) in which many different molecules -- with their own dependence on each of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 L. Decin , B. Vandenbussche , C. Waelkens , G. Decin , K. Eriksson , B. Gustafsson , B. Plez , A. J. Sauval