[Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] abundances of XSL Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Santos-Peral P.
  2. Sanchez-Blazquez P.
  3. Vazdekis A.
  4. Palicio P.A.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is a large empirical stellar library used as a benchmark for the development of stellar population models. The inclusion of alpha-elements abundances is crucial to disentangling the chemical evolution of any stellar system. This paper provides a catalogue of high-precision and accurate magnesium and calcium abundances from a wide variety of stars well distributed in the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. We originally performed an analysis of the derived Mg and Ca abundances for medium-resolution spectra from the XSL Data Release 2. For this purpose, we used the GAUGUIN automated abundance estimation code to fit the ultraviolet-blue (UVB) and visible (VIS) spectra. We tested the consistency of the atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances with the Gaia DR3 and the AMBRE Project datasets.We have obtained precise [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] abundances for 192 and 217 stars respectively, from which 174 stars have measurements in both elements. The stars cover a broad range of effective temperature 4000<Teff<6500K, surface gravity 0.3<log(g)<4.8cm/s^2^, and metallicity -2.5<[Fe/H]<+0.4dex. We find an excellent agreement with the abundance estimates from the AMBRE:HARPS and the Gaia/RVS analysis. Moreover, the resulting abundances reproduce a plateau in the metal-poor regime followed by a decreasing trend even at supersolar metallicities, as predicted by Galactic chemical evolution models. This catalogue is suitable for improving the modelling of evolutionary stellar population models with empirical alpha-enhancements, which could significantly contribute to the analysis of external galaxies abundances in the near future.

Keywords
  1. chemical-abundances
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023A&A...672A.166S
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36720166

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History

2023-04-19T08:38:55Z
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2023-04-19T08:38:55Z
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2023-10-30T09:12:02Z
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