Ks absolute magnitudes from LAMOST for OB stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Xiang M.
  2. Rix H.-W.
  3. Ting Y.-S.
  4. Zari E.
  5. El-badry K.
  6. Yuan H.-B.,Cui W.-Y.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a data-driven method to estimate absolute magnitudes for O- and B-type stars from the LAMOST spectra, which we combine with Gaia DR2 parallaxes to infer distance and binarity. The method applies a neural network model trained on stars with precise Gaia parallax to the spectra and predicts K_s_-band absolute magnitudes M_Ks_ with a precision of 0.25mag, which corresponds to a precision of 12% in spectroscopic distance. For distant stars (e.g., >5kpc), the inclusion of constraints from spectroscopic M_Ks_ significantly improves the distance estimates compared to inferences from Gaia parallax alone. Our method accommodates for emission-line stars by first identifying them via principal component analysis reconstructions and then treating them separately for the M_Ks_ estimation. We also take into account unresolved binary/multiple stars, which we identify through deviations in the spectroscopic M_Ks_ from the geometric M_Ks_ inferred from Gaia parallax. This method of binary identification is particularly efficient for unresolved binaries with near equal-mass components and thus provides a useful supplementary way to identify unresolved binary or multiple-star systems. We present a catalog of spectroscopic M_Ks_, extinction, distance, flags for emission lines, and binary classification for 16002 OB stars from LAMOST DR5. As an illustration, we investigate the M_Ks_ of the enigmatic LB-1 system, which Liu et al. 2019Natur.575..618L had argued consists of a B star and a massive stellar-mass black hole. Our results suggest that LB-1 is a binary system that contains two luminous stars with comparable brightness, and the result is further supported by parallax from the Gaia eDR3.

Keywords
  1. ob-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. absolute-magnitude
  4. proper-motions
  5. stellar-distance
  6. visible-astronomy
  7. trigonometric-parallax
  8. infrared-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJS..253...22X
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22530022

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History

2021-06-25T09:52:04Z
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2021-06-25T09:52:04Z
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2021-07-05T13:14:31Z
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