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Predicting Stellar Angular Diameters from $V$, $I_C$, $H$, $K$ Photometry

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-12-06 v1

Abstract

Determining the physical properties of microlensing events depends on having accurate angular sizes of the source star. Using long-baseline optical interferometry we are able to measure the angular sizes of nearby stars with uncertainties 2%\leq 2\%. We present empirically derived relations of angular diameters that are calibrated using both a sample of dwarfs/subgiants and a sample of giant stars. These relations are functions of five color indices in the visible and near-infrared, and have uncertainties of 1.8-6.5% depending on the color used. We find that a combined sample of both main-sequence and evolved stars of A-K spectral types is well fit by a single relation for each color considered. We find that in the colors considered, metallicity does not play a statistically significant role in predicting stellar size, leading to a means of predicting observed sizes of stars from color alone.

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@article{arxiv.1709.03902,
  title  = {Predicting Stellar Angular Diameters from $V$, $I_C$, $H$, $K$ Photometry},
  author = {Arthur D. Adams and Tabetha S. Boyajian and Kaspar von Braun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03902},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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