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We present the first automated fitting method for the quantitative spectroscopy of O- and early B-type stars with stellar winds. The method combines the non-LTE stellar atmosphere code FASTWIND from Puls et al. (2005) with the genetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Mokiem , A. de Koter , J. Puls , A. Herrero , F. Najarro , M. R. Villamariz

Gaia will obtain astrometry and spectrophotometry for essentially all sources in the sky down to a broad band magnitude limit of G=20, an expected yield of 10^9 stars. Its main scientific objective is to reveal the formation and evolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Liu , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. Sordo , A. Vallenari , R. Borrachero , X. Luri , P. Sartoretti

In the era of large Milky Way spectroscopic surveys, calibrating and standardizing stellar parameters and abundance measurements is crucial. The Gaia benchmark stars (GBS) are key references points characterized by well-defined parameters…

With the plentiful information available in the Gaia BP/RP spectra, there is significant scope for applying discriminative models to extract stellar atmospheric parameters and abundances. We describe an approach to leverage an `Uncertain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Connor P. Fallows , Jason L. Sanders

Stellar astrophysics relies critically on accurate descriptions of the physical conditions inside stars. Traditional solvers such as \texttt{MESA} (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics), which employ adaptive finite-difference…

The advent of new and more powerful infrared spectrographs has significantly motivated the advancement of the study of atomic and molecular line lists and stellar atmosphere models. While optical abundance determinations rely on extensively…

Detection of the \hi~ 21-cm power spectrum is one of the key science drivers of several ongoing and upcoming low-frequency radio interferometers. However, the major challenge in such observations come from bright foregrounds, whose accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar

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…

The PASTEL catalogue is an update of the [Fe/H] catalogue, published in 1997 and 2001. It is a bibliographical compilation of stellar atmospheric parameters providing (Teff,logg,[Fe/H]) determinations obtained from the analysis of high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. Soubiran , J. -F. Le Campion , G. Cayrel de Strobel , A. Caillo

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has observed the H-band spectra of over 200 000 stars with $R\sim22 000$. The main motivation for this work is to test an alternative method to the standard APOGEE pipeline…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Pedro Sarmento , Elisa Delgado Mena , Bárbara Rojas-Ayala , Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) corrupts astronomical measurements, thus affecting the performance of radio telescopes. To address this problem, supervised segmentation models have been proposed as candidate solutions to RFI detection.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Elena Ranguelova , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

In this work, we present a new method to estimate cosmological parameters accurately based on the artificial neural network (ANN), and a code called ECoPANN (Estimating Cosmological Parameters with ANN) is developed to achieve parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Guo-Jian Wang , Si-Yao Li , Jun-Qing Xia

White dwarfs represent the end stage for 97% of stars, making precise parameter measurement crucial for understanding stellar evolution. Traditional estimation methods involve fitting spectra or photometry, which require high-quality data.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Duo Xie , Jiangchuan Zhang , Yude Bu , Zhenping Yi , Meng Liu , Xiaoming Kong

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

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have different applications in Astronomy, including data reduction and data mining. In this work we propose the use ANNs in the identification of stellar model solutions. We illustrate this method, by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. J. G. Pinheiro , T. Simas , J. Fernandes , R. Ribeiro

We present results from an observing campaign to identify low-metallicity stars in the Best & Brightest Survey. From medium-resolution (R ~ 1, 200 - 2, 000) spectroscopy of 857 candidates, we estimate the stellar atmospheric parameters…

We present elemental abundances for eight unevolved extremely metal-poor stars with $T_{\rm eff}>5500\,\mathrm{K}$, among which seven have $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]<-3.5$. The sample is selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Sloan Extension…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Tadafumi Matsuno , Wako Aoki , Timothy C. Beers , Young Sun Lee , Satoshi Honda

To accurately interpret the observed properties of exoplanets, it is necessary to first obtain a detailed understanding of host star properties. However, physical models that analyze stellar properties on a per-star basis can become…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Malena Rice , John Brewer

Context. At least 492 central stars of Galactic planetary nebulae (CSPNs) have been assigned spectral types. Since many CSPNs are faint, these classification efforts are frequently made at low spectral resolution. However, the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 Walter Weidmann , Roberto Mendez , Roberto Gamen

We measure abundances of 12 elements (Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) in a sample of 86 metal-poor ($-2 \lesssim \text{[Fe/H]} \lesssim -1$) subgiant stars in the solar neighborhood. Abundances are derived from…