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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first data release provides a database of 106000 unique galaxies in the main galaxy sample with measured spectra. A sample of star-forming (SF) galaxies are identified from among the 3079 of these having…

We describe advances on a method designed to derive accurate parameters of M dwarfs. Our analysis consists in comparing high-resolution infrared spectra acquired with the near-infrared spectro-polarimeter SPIRou to synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 P. I. Cristofari , J. -F. Donati , T. Masseron , P. Fouqué , C. Moutou , A. Carmona , E. Artigau , E. Martioli , G. Hébrard , E. Gaidos , X. Delfosse

The measurement of atmospheric parameters is fundamental for scientific research using stellar spectra. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), scheduled to be launched in 2024, will provide researchers with hundreds of millions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 JiaRui Rao , HaiLiang Chen , JianPing Xiong , LuQian Wang , YanJun Guo , JiaJia Li , Chao Liu , ZhanWen Han , XueFei Chen

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 introduce NEIDSpecMatch, a tool developed to extract stellar parameters from spectra obtained with the NEID spectrograph. NEIDSpecMatch is based on SpecMatch-Emp and HPFSpecMatch, which estimate stellar parameters by comparing the…

Massive stars play key roles in many astrophysical processes. Deriving atmospheric parameters of massive stars is important to understand their physical properties and thus are key inputs to trace their evolution. Here we report our work on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 YanJun Guo , Bo Zhang , Chao Liu , Jiao Li , JiangDan Li , LuQian Wang , ZhiCun Liu , YongHui Hou , ZhanWen Han , XueFei Chen

Stellar spectra depend on the stellar parameters and on dozens of photospheric elemental abundances. Simultaneous fitting of these $\mathcal{N}\sim 10-40$ model labels to observed spectra has been deemed unfeasible, because the number of ab…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Hans-Walter Rix , Yuan-Sen Ting , Charlie Conroy , David W. Hogg

We use empirical star formation histories (SFHs), measured from HST-based resolved star color-magnitude diagrams, as input into population synthesis codes to model the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of ~50 nearby dwarf…

Context. As increasingly more spectroscopic data are being delivered by medium- and high-resolving power multi-object spectrographs, more automatic stellar parameter determination softwares are being developed. The quality of the spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-04 Helene Posbic , David Katz , Elisabetta Caffau , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Ana Gomez , Luca Sbordone , Frederic Arenou

Star Formation Rate (SFR) inferences are based in the so-called constant SFR approximation, where synthesis models are require to provide a calibration; we aims to study the key points of such approximation to produce accurate SFR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-01 M. Cervino , A. Bongiovanni , S. Hidalgo

Through an extensive set of realistic synthetic observations (produced in Paper I), we assess in this part of the paper series (Paper III) how the choice of observational techniques affects the measurement of star-formation rates (SFRs) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christine M. Koepferl , Thomas P. Robitaille , James E. Dale

We present a new method for deriving the stellar birth function (SBF) of resolved stellar populations. The SBF (stars born per unit mass, time, and metallicity) is the combination of the initial mass function (IMF), the star-formation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Mario Gennaro , Kirill Tchernyshyov , Tom Brown , Karl Gordon

Morphology and structure of galaxies reflect their star formation and assembly histories. We use the framework of mutual information ($\mathrm{MI}$) to quantify interdependence among several structural variables and to rank them according…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho , S. M. Faber

Spectral synthesis is basically the decomposition of an observed spectrum in terms of the superposition of a base of simple stellar populations of various ages and metallicities, producing as output the star formation and chemical histories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jean Michel Gomes , Polychronis Papaderos

Models of stellar spectra are necessary for interpreting light from individual stars, planets, integrated stellar populations, nebulae, and the interstellar medium. We provide a comprehensive and homogeneous collection of synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Carlos Allende Prieto , Lars Koesterke , Ivan Hubeny , Manuel A. Bautista , Paul S. Barklem , Sultana N. Nahar

Star Formation Rates or SFRs are crucial to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. SFRs are usually estimated via spectroscopic observations requiring large amounts of telescope time. We explore an alternative approach based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 M. Delli Veneri , S. Cavuoti , M. Brescia , G. Longo , G. Riccio

The program package SME (Spectroscopy Made Easy), designed to perform an analysis of stellar spectra using spectral fitting techniques, was updated due to adding new functions (isotopic and hyperfine splittins) in VALD and including grids…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 N. Piskunov , T. Ryabchikova , Yu. Pakhomov , T. Sitnova , S. Alexeeva , L. Mashonkina , T. Nordlander

As a first step to a more complete understanding of the local physical processes which determine star formation rates (SFRs) in the interstellar medium (ISM), we have performed controlled numerical experiments consisting of hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Slyz , J. Devriendt , Greg Bryan , Joseph Silk

We present SM-Net, a machine-learning model that learns a continuous spectral manifold from multiple high-resolution stellar libraries. SM-Net generates stellar spectra directly from the fundamental stellar parameters effective temperature…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Omar Anwar , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Luca Cortese , Kevin Vinsen

We derive and compare six theoretical models for the star formation rate (SFR) - the Krumholz & McKee (KM), Padoan & Nordlund (PN), and Hennebelle & Chabrier (HC) models, and three multi-freefall versions of these, suggested by HC - all…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen