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In this paper, we report on 606 S-type stars identified from Data Release 9 of the LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic (MRS) survey, and 539 of them are reported for the first time. The discovery of these stars is a three-step process,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Jing Chen , A-Li Luo , Yin-Bi Li , Xiang-Lei Chen , Rui Wang , Shuo Li , Bing Du , Xiao-Xiao Ma

Massive stars typically undergo short-lived post-main sequence evolutionary phases with strong mass loss and occasional mass eruptions. Many of such massive stars in transition phases have been identified based on their dusty envelopes. The…

Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs -- spectral types (SpTs) M0 and later -- play a significant role in studying stellar and substellar processes and demographics, reaching down to planetary-mass objects. Currently, the classification of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Tianxing Zhou , Christopher A. Theissen , S. Jean Feeser , William M. J. Best , Adam J. Burgasser , Kelle L. Cruz , Lexu Zhao

The advent of large-scale spectroscopic surveys underscores the need to develop robust techniques for determining stellar properties ("labels", i.e., physical parameters and elemental abundances). However, traditional spectroscopic methods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Aida Behmard , Erik A. Petigura , Andrew W. Howard

We have identified the H-alpha absorption feature as a new spectroscopic diagnostic of luminosity class in K- and M-type stars. From high-resolution spectra of 19 stars with well-determined physical properties (including effective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Jeff Jennings , Emily M. Levesque

We present moderate resolution near-infrared spectra in $H, J$ and $K$ band of M dwarf hosts to candidate transiting exoplanets discovered by NASA's K2 mission. We employ known empirical relationships between spectral features and physical…

The LAMOST-Kepler (LK-) project was initiated to use the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to make spectroscopic follow-up observations for the targets in the field of the Kepler mission. The Kepler field is…

We present a sample of metallic-line star (Am) candidates from the Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope Data Release one (LAMOST DR1). According to the characteristic of under-abundance of calcium and overabundance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Wen Hou , ALi Luo , Haifeng Yang , Peng Wei , Yongheng Zhao , Fang Zuo , Yihan Song , Bing Du , Zhongrui Bai , Yong Zhang , Yonghui Hou , Xiaowei Liu

We propose a revision of the system developed by L'epine et al. (2007) for spectroscopic M subdwarf classification. Based on an analysis of subdwarf spectra and templates from Savcheva et al. (2014), we show thatthe CaH1 feature originally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Shuo Zhang , A-Li Luo , Georges Comte , John E. Gizis , Rui Wang , Yinbi Li , Li Qin , Xiao Kong , Yu Bai , Zhenping Yi

A search of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic database has turned up 23 new ultra-cool subdwarfs, low-mass metal-poor stars of spectral subtype M 7.0 or later. Spectra from these red objects all show very strong molecular bands of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Lepine , Ralf-Dieter Scholz

M subdwarfs are metal poor and cool stars. They are important probes of the old galactic populations. However, they remain elusive due to their low luminosity. Observational and modeling efforts are required to fully understand the physics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 A. S. Rajpurohit , C. Reyle , M. Schultheis , F. Allard

Libraries of stellar spectra find many uses in astrophysics, from photometric calibration to stellar population synthesis. We present low resolution spectra of 40 stars from 0.2 micrometers (ultraviolet) to 1.0 micrometers (near infrared)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Islam Khan , Guy Worthey

Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in applying the techniques of MK classification to spectra obtained from 1-5 microns. This spectral region is rich in atomic and molecular features which are temperature and luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Meyer

We present high-resolution maps of stars, dust, and molecular gas in a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at z = 3.259. HATLAS12--00 is selected from the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) as a strong lens…

Hydrogen-deficient stars form sequences across the HR diagram from cool R CrB stars to helium-rich hot subdwarfs and PG1159 stars, tracing multiple evolution pathways. The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been used to conduct a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Asish Philip Monai , C. Simon Jeffery

Be stars are rapidly rotating B-type stars that exhibit Balmer emission lines in their optical spectra. These stars play an important role in studies of stellar evolution and disk structures. In this work, we carried out a systematic search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Lei Tan , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Huanbin chi , Yixing Chen , Tianhang Liu , Feng Wang

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

We present results from the analysis of 88 carbon stars selected from Hamburg/ESO (HES) survey using low-resolution spectra (R$\sim$1330 \& 2190). The spectra were obtained with the Himalayan Faint Object Spectrograph Camera (HFOSC)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Meenakshi Purandardas , Aruna Goswami

We present a sample of 2700 Ap stars in LAMOST DR9. The candidates are first selected to be in a temperature range typical of Ap stars by using the $BP$-$RP$ color index from Gaia DR3. Then the 5200\,\AA\ flux depression features…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Fangfei Shi , Huawei Zhang , Jianning Fu , Donald Kurtz , Maosheng Xiang

Stars that exhibit prominent emission lines in their spectra are referred to as emission-line stars, encompassing a wide range of stellar types and indicative of intriguing physical properties. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object fiber…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Lihuan Yu , Jiangdan Li , Jinliang Wang , Tongyu He , Zhanwen Han aa