Empirical calibration of the near-infrared Ca ii triplet – II. The stellar atmospheric parameters |
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| Authors: | AJ Cenarro J Gorgas N Cardiel S Pedraz RF Peletier A Vazdekis |
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| Institution: | 1Departamento de Astrofísica, Fac. de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain;2Calar Alto Observatory, CAHA, Apdo. 511, 04004 Almería, Spain;3School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD;4Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE |
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| Abstract: | We present a homogeneous set of stellar atmospheric parameters ( T eff, log g , Fe/H]) for a sample of about 700 field and cluster stars which constitute a new stellar library in the near-IR developed for stellar population synthesis in this spectral region ( λ 8350–9020) . Having compiled the available atmospheric data in the literature for field stars, we have found systematic deviations between the atmospheric parameters from different bibliographic references. The Soubiran, Katz & Cayrel sample of stars with very well determined fundamental parameters has been taken as our standard reference system, and other papers have been calibrated and bootstrapped against it. The obtained transformations are provided in this paper. Once most of the data sets were on the same system, final parameters were derived by performing error weighted means. Atmospheric parameters for cluster stars have also been revised and updated according to recent metallicity scales and colour–temperature relations. |
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| Keywords: | stars: abundances stars: fundamental parameters globular clusters: general galaxies: stellar content |
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