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Context. The homogenization of the stellar parameters is an important goal for large observational spectroscopic surveys, but it is very difficult to achieve it because of the diversity of the spectroscopic analysis methods used within a…

This paper is the 4th in a series describing the latest additions to the BaSTI stellar evolution database, which consists of a large set of homogeneous models and tools for population synthesis studies. Here we present a new set of low and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Susan M. Percival , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Adriano Pietrinferni

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…

We used integrated-light medium-resolution spectra of six Galactic globular clusters and model stellar atmospheres to carry out population synthesis and to derive chemical composition and age of the clusters. We used medium-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 D. A. Khamidullina , M. E. Sharina , V. V. Shimansky , E. Davoust

We measure carbon and nitrogen abundances to $\lesssim$ 0.1 dex for 450,000 giant stars from their low-resolution (R$\sim$1800) LAMOST DR2 survey spectra. We use these [C/M] and [N/M] measurements, together with empirical relations based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Anna Y. Q. Ho , Hans-Walter Rix , Melissa K. Ness , David W. Hogg , Chao Liu , Yuan-Sen Ting

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

Stellar parameters and abundances provide crucial insights into stellar and Galactic evolution studies. In this work, we developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate stellar parameters: effective temperature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Haoyang Liu , Cuihua Du , Mingji Deng , Jian Zhang

With the large amounts of spectroscopic data available today and the very large surveys to come (e.g. Gaia), the need for automatic data analysis software is unquestionable. We thus developed an automatic spectra analysis program for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Helene Posbic , David Katz , Elisabetta Caffau , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Luca Sbordone , Ana Gomez , Frederic Arenou

Integrated light spectroscopy from galaxies can be used to study the stellar populations that cannot be resolved into individual stars. This analysis relies on stellar population synthesis (SPS) techniques to study the formation history and…

Measurements of [Fe/H] and [$\alpha$/Fe] can probe the minor merging history of a galaxy, providing a direct way to test the hierarchical assembly paradigm. While measurements of [$\alpha$/Fe] have been made in the stellar halo of the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Ivanna Escala , Evan N. Kirby , Karoline M. Gilbert , Emily C. Cunningham , Jennifer Wojno

As a well-established procedure for the vast majority of normal main-sequence stars, determination of atmospheric and stellar parameters turns to be a challenging process in case of magnetic chemically peculiar stars. Inhomogeneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Shulyak , T. Ryabchikova , O. Kochukhov

Upcoming large-scale spectroscopic surveys with e.g. WEAVE and 4MOST will provide thousands of spectra of massive stars, which need to be analysed in an efficient and homogeneous way. Usually, studies of massive stars are limited to samples…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 J. M. Bestenlehner , T. Enßlin , M. Bergemann , P. A. Crowther , M. Greiner , M. Selig

High-resolution stellar spectra offer valuable insights into atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions. However, their inherent complexity and high-dimensionality present challenges in fully utilizing the information they contain. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Qianyu Fan

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

Recent advances from astronomical surveys have revealed spatial, chemical, and kinematical inhomogeneities in the inner region of the stellar halo of the Milky Way Galaxy. In particular, large spectroscopic surveys, combined with Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 Deokkeun An , Timothy C. Beers

The plethora of spectra of OB-type stars in observatory archives and the much larger numbers to come from the WEAVE and 4MOST spectroscopic facilities require efficient, but also accurate and precise methods for (semi)automatic quantitative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 P. Aschenbrenner , N. Przybilla

Stellar physical and dynamical properties are essential knowledge to understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of our Galaxy. We produced an all-sky uniformly derived catalog of stellar astrophysical parameters (APs; age, mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Fouesneau , R. Andrae , T. Dharmawardena , J. Rybizki , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Demleitner

We present a new analysis of the LAMOST DR1 survey spectral database performed with the code SP_Ace, which provides the derived stellar parameters T$_{\rm eff}$, log (g), [Fe/H], and [$\alpha$/Fe] for 1,097,231 stellar objects. We tested…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 C. Boeche , M. C. Smith , E. K. Grebel , J. Zhong , J. L. Hou , L. Chen , D. Stello

In many applications, data can be heterogeneous in the sense of spanning latent groups with different underlying distributions. When predictive models are applied to such data the heterogeneity can affect both predictive performance and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-04 Thomas Lartigue , Sach Mukherjee

High-resolution spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way have entered the Big Data regime and have opened avenues for solving outstanding questions in Galactic archaeology. However, exploiting their full potential is limited by complex…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-14 Aarya A. Patil , Jo Bovy , Gwendolyn Eadie , Sebastian Jaimungal
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