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The estimation of stellar atmospheric parameters for large-scale samples, particularly metal-poor stars, is a cornerstone of Galactic archaeology. In this work, we optimized a photometric filter design tailored to measuring stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Ruifeng Shi , Yang Huang , Kai Xiao , Chuanjie Zheng , Bowen Zhang , Hongrui Gu , Xinyi Li , Huiling Chen

We apply the stellar locus method to synthetic $(BP-RP)_{XPSP}$ and $(BP-G)_{XPSP}$ colors derived from corrected Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra to obtain precise estimates of metallicity for about 100 million stars in the Milky Way (34 million…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Bowen Huang , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Kai Xiao , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Timothy C. Beers

We design an uncertainty-aware cost-sensitive neural network (UA-CSNet) to estimate metallicities from dereddened and corrected Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra for giant stars. This method accounts for both stochastic errors in the input spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Lin Yang , Haibo Yuan , Bowen Huang , Ruoyi Zhang , Timothy C. Beers , Kai Xiao , Shuai Xu , Yang Huang , Maosheng Xiang , Meng Zhang , Jinming Zhang

Observational studies have identified several sub-structures in different regions of the Magellanic Clouds, the nearest pair of interacting dwarf satellites of the Milky Way. By studying the metallicity of the sources in these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Abinaya O. Omkumar , Smitha Subramanian , Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Jos de Bruijne

We derive and publish data-driven estimates of stellar metallicities [M/H] for 175 million stars with low-resolution XP spectra published in Gaia DR3. The [M/H] values, along with Teff and logg, are derived using the XGBoost algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Rene Andrae , Hans-Walter Rix , Vedant Chandra

Knowledge of stellar atmospheric parameters ($T_{\rm eff}$, $\log{g}$, [Fe/H]) of M dwarfs can be used to constrain both theoretical stellar models and Galactic chemical evolutionary models, and guide exoplanet searches, but their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 C. Duque-Arribas , D. Montes , H. M. Tabernero , J. A. Caballero , J. Gorgas , E. Marfil

We combine LAMOST DR7 spectroscopic data and Gaia EDR3 photometric data to construct high-quality giant (0.7 $< (BP-RP) <$ 1.4) and dwarf (0.5 $< (BP-RP) < $ 1.5) samples in the high Galactic latitude region, with precise corrections for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shuai Xu , Haibo Yuan , Zexi Niu , Lin Yang , Timothy C. Beers , Yang Huang

To calibrate automatic pipelines that determine atmospheric parameters of stars, one needs a sample of stars -- ``benchmark stars'' -- with well defined parameters to be used as a reference We provide a detailed documentation of the…

We develop a method to estimate photometric metallicities by simultaneously fitting the dereddened colors u-g, g-r, r-i and i-z from the SDSS with those predicted by the metallicity-dependent stellar loci. The method is tested with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Haibo Yuan , Xiaowei Liu , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Bingqiu Chen

Extremely metal-poor stars are intrinsically rare, but emerging methods exist to accurately classify them from all-sky Gaia XP low-resolution spectra. To assess their overall accuracy for targeting metal-poor stars, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Riley Thai , Andrew R. Casey , Alexander Ji , Vedant Chandra , Hans-Walter Rix

We present precise photometric estimates of stellar parameters, including effective temperature, metallicity, luminosity classification, distance, and stellar age, for nearly 26 million stars using the methodology developed in the first…

The Milky Way's metal-poor stars are nearby ancient objects that are used to study early chemical evolution and the assembly and structure of the Milky Way. Here we present reliable metallicities of $\sim280,000$ stars with $-3.75 \lesssim$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Anirudh Chiti , Anna Frebel , Mohammad K. Mardini , Tatsuya W. Daniel , Xiaowei Ou , Anastasiia V. Uvarova

RR Lyrae stars are useful chemical tracers thanks to the empirical relationship between their heavy-element abundance and the shape of their light curves. However, the consistent and accurate calibration of this relation across multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 István Dékány , Eva K. Grebel

Context. The third Gaia Data Release, which includes BP/RP spectra for 219 million sources, has opened a new window in the exploration of the chemical history and evolution of the Milky Way. The wealth of information encapsulated in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 T. Xylakis-Dornbusch , N. Christlieb , T. T. Hansen , T. Nordlander , K. B. Webber , J. Marshall

We use the calibrations by Calamida et al. and by Hilker et al., and the standardised synthetic photometry in the v, b, and y Stromgren passbands from Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra, to obtain photometric metallicities for a selected sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Bellazzini M. , Massari D. , De Angeli F. , Mucciarelli A. , Bragaglia. A , Riello M. , Montegriffo P.

Accurate determinations of stellar parameters and distances for large complete samples of stars are keys for conducting detailed studies of the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. Here we present stellar atmospheric parameters ($T_{\rm…

In a series of three papers, we investigate the current status of published metallicities for open clusters that were derived from a variety of photometric and spectroscopic methods. The current article focuses on spectroscopic methods. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-10 U. Heiter , C. Soubiran , M. Netopil , E. Paunzen

We present a study of the ultra-faint Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxy Tucana II using deep photometry from the 1.3m SkyMapper telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. The SkyMapper filter-set contains a metallicity-sensitive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Anirudh Chiti , Anna Frebel , Helmut Jerjen , Dongwon Kim , John E. Norris

We have entered an era of large spectroscopic surveys in which we can measure, through automated pipelines, the atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances for large numbers of stars. Calibrating these survey pipelines using a set of…

The mean metallicity of the Milky Way thin disc in the solar neighbourhood is still a matter of debate, and has recently been subject to upward revision (Haywood, 2001). Our star sample was drawn from a set of solar neighbourhood dwarfs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Haywood
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