Open AccessEmpirical calibration of the near‐infrared Ca ii triplet – II. The stellar atmospheric parameters
Author(s) -
Cenarro A.J.,
Gorgas J.,
Cardiel N.,
Pedraz S.,
Peletier R.F.,
Vazdekis A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04689.x
Subject(s) - physics , stars , metallicity , astrophysics , stellar population , stellar atmosphere , stellar classification , calibration , homogeneous , cluster (spacecraft) , star formation , statistical physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
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 (λ8350–9020) . 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.