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Numerous stellar surveys have been or will provide photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic data for a large number of stars in the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies. Modern data processing tools and analysis methods are needed to deal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Sergen Özdemir , John Eduard Martínez-Fernández , Rodolfo Smiljanic

Large spectroscopic surveys rely on automated pipelines to deliver homogeneous stellar labels, but a substantial fraction of observations are at low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), where label estimates become imprecise or are omitted. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Weijia Sun , Cristina Chiappini , Samir Nepal

Using SDSS-V DR19 Milky Way Mapper APOGEE data, we measure the impact that close binarity has on surface chemistry across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in a broad set of abundances by studying single-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB1s) in…

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has built the largest moderately high-resolution (R=22, 500) spectroscopic map of the stars across the Milky Way, and including dust-obscured areas. The APOGEE Stellar…

Context: Asteroseismology, a powerful approach for obtaining internal structure and stellar properties, requires surface temperature and chemical composition information to determine mass and age. High-resolution spectroscopy is a valuable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Nagaraj Vernekar , Sara Lucatello , Angela Bragaglia , Andrea Miglio , Nicoletta Sanna , Gloria Andreuzzi , Antonio Frasca

We present The Payne, a general method for the precise and simultaneous determination of numerous stellar labels from observed spectra, based on fitting physical spectral models. The Payne combines a number of important methodological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Yuan-Sen Ting , Charlie Conroy , Hans-Walter Rix , Phillip Cargile

Characterizing the fundamental parameters of stars from observations is crucial for studying the stars themselves, their planets, and the galaxy as a whole. Stellar evolution theory predicting the properties of stars as a function of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Cecilia Garraffo , Pavlos Protopapas , Jeremy J. Drake , Ignacio Becker , Phillip Cargile

The chemo-physical parametrisation of stellar spectra is essential for understanding the nature and evolution of stars and of Galactic stellar populations. Gaia DR3 contains the parametrisation of RVS data performed by the General Stellar…

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic, homogeneous spectroscopic survey sampling all major populations of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Steven R. Majewski , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Carlos Allende Prieto , Robert Barkhouser , Dmitry Bizyaev , Basil Blank , Sophia Brunner , Adam Burton , Ricardo Carrera , S. Drew Chojnowski , Katia Cunha , Courtney Epstein , Greg Fitzgerald , Ana E. Garcia Perez , Fred R. Hearty , Chuck Henderson , Jon A. Holtzman , Jennifer A. Johnson , Charles R. Lam , James E. Lawler , Paul Maseman , Szabolcs Meszaros , Matthew Nelson , Duy Coung Nguyen , David L. Nidever , Marc Pinsonneault , Matthew Shetrone , Stephen Smee , Verne V. Smith , Todd Stolberg , Michael F. Skrutskie , Eric Walker , John C. Wilson , Gail Zasowski , Friedrich Anders , Sarbani Basu , Stephane Beland , Michael R. Blanton , Jo Bovy , Joel R. Brownstein , Joleen Carlberg , William Chaplin , Cristina Chiappini , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne Elsworth , Diane Feuillet , Scott W. Fleming , Jessica Galbraith-Frew , Rafael A. Garcia , D. Anibal Garcia-Hernandez , Bruce A. Gillespie , Leo Girardi , James E. Gunn , Sten Hasselquist , Michael R. Hayden , Saskia Hekker , Inese Ivans , Karen Kinemuchi , Mark Klaene , Suvrath Mahadevan , Savita Mathur , Benoit Mosser , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Robert C. Nichol , Robert W. O'Connell , A. C. Robin , Helio Rocha-Pinto , Matthias Schultheis , Aldo M. Serenelli , Neville Shane , Victor Silva Aguirre , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Benjamin Thompson , Nicholas W. Troup , David H. Weinberg , Olga Zamora

Given their location on the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram, thoroughly characterized subgiant stars can place stringent constraints on a wide range of astrophysical problems. Accordingly, they are prime asteroseismic targets for the…

The analysis of transiting extra-solar planets provides an enormous amount of information about the formation and evolution of planetary systems. A precise knowledge of the host stars is necessary to derive the planetary properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Ammler-von Eiff , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , J. Fernandes , T. Guillot , G. Israelian , M. Mayor , C. Melo

Galah is an ongoing high-resolution spectroscopic survey with the goal of disentangling the formation history of the Milky Way, using the fossil remnants of disrupted star formation sites which are now dispersed around the Galaxy. It is…

Methods to determine abundances of the elements in the atmospheres of F, G, and K stars with precisions of 0.01-0.03 dex are reviewed. Such high-precision stellar abundances have led to the discovery of unexpected phenomena and relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Poul Erik Nissen , Bengt Gustafsson

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

In this study, the fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters (Teff, log g, [Fe/H] and [{\alpha}/Fe]) were derived for low-resolution spectroscopy from LAMOST DR5 with Generative Spectrum Networks (GSN). This follows the same scheme as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Wang Rui , Luo A-li , Zhang Shuo , Hou Wen , Du Bing , Song Yi-Han , Wu Ke-Fei , Chen Jian-Jun , Zuo Fang , Qin Li , Chen Xiang-Lei , Lu Yan

The detailed age-chemical abundance relations of stars measures time-dependent chemical evolution.These trends offer strong empirical constraints on nucleosynthetic processes, as well as the homogeneityof star-forming gas. Characterizing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-23 Yuxi , Lu , Melissa Ness , Tobias Buck , Joel Zinn

We use observations from the APOGEE survey to explore the relationship between stellar parameters and multiplicity. We combine high-resolution repeat spectroscopy for 41,363 dwarf and subgiant stars with abundance measurements from the…

The scale of ongoing and future electromagnetic surveys pose formidable challenges to classify astronomical objects. Pioneering efforts on this front include citizen science campaigns adopted by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Robert Gruendl , Elise Jennings , Huihuo Zheng

Observational astronomy has undergone a significant transformation driven by large-scale surveys, such as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) Survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Gaia…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Bradley D. Hutchinson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Christian I. Johnson