Stars of HETDEX. I. RVels & metal-poor stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Hawkins K.
  2. Zeimann G.
  3. Sneden C.
  4. Mentuch Cooper E.
  5. Gebhardt K.,Bond H.E.
  6. Carrillo A.
  7. Casey C.M.
  8. Castanheira B.G.
  9. Ciardullo R.,Davis D.
  10. Farrow D.J.
  11. Finkelstein S.L.
  12. Hill G.J.
  13. Kelz A.
  14. Liu C.,Shetrone M.
  15. Schneider D.P.
  16. Starkenburg E.
  17. Steinmetz M.
  18. Wheeler J.C.,The HETDEX Collaboration
  19. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an unbiased, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey, designed to measure the expansion history of the universe through low-resolution (R~750) spectra of Ly{alpha} emitters. In its search for these galaxies, HETDEX will also observe a few times 105 stars. In this paper, we present the first stellar value-added catalog within the internal second data release of the HETDEX Survey (HDR2). The new catalog contains 120,571 low-resolution spectra for 98,736 unique stars between 10<G<22 spread across the HETDEX footprint at relatively high (b~60{deg}) Galactic latitudes. With these spectra, we measure radial velocities (RVs) for ~42,000 unique FGK-type stars in the catalog and show that the HETDEX spectra are sufficient to constrain these RVs with a 1{sigma} precision of 28.0km/s and bias of 3.5km/s with respect to the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope surveys and 1{sigma} precision of 27.5km/s and bias of 14.0km/s compared to the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration survey. Since these RVs are for faint (G>=16) stars, they will be complementary to Gaia. Using t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE), we also demonstrate that the HETDEX spectra can be used to determine a star's Teff, and log g and its [Fe/H]. With the tSNE projection of the FGK-type stars with HETDEX spectra we also identify 416 new candidate metal-poor ([Fe/H]{<}-1dex) stars for future study. These encouraging results illustrate the utility of future low-resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys.

Keywords
  1. chemically-peculiar-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. spectroscopy
  5. proper-motions
  6. photometry
  7. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...911..108H
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19110108

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2022-11-09T12:16:08Z
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