Stellar sp. libraries in Opt-NIR. I. UVES-POP Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Borisov S.B.
  2. Chilingarian I.V.
  3. Rubtsov E.V.
  4. Ledoux C.
  5. Melo C.,Grishin K.A.
  6. Katkov I.Y.
  7. Goradzhanov V.S.
  8. Afanasiev A.V.,Kasparova A.V.
  9. Saburova A.S.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present reprocessed flux-calibrated spectra of 406 stars from the UVES-POP stellar library in the wavelength range 320-1025nm, which can be used for stellar population synthesis. The spectra are provided in the two versions having spectral resolving power R=20000 and R=80000. Raw spectra from the ESO data archive were re-reduced using the latest version of the UVES data reduction pipeline with some additional algorithms that we developed. The most significant improvements in comparison with the original UVES-POP release are (i) an updated echelle order merging, which eliminates "ripples" present in the published spectra; (ii) a full telluric correction; (iii) merging of nonoverlapping UVES spectral setups taking into account the global continuum shape; (iv) a spectrophotometric correction and absolute flux calibration; and (v) estimates of the interstellar extinction. For 364 stars from our sample, we computed atmospheric parameters Teff, surface gravity logg, metallicity [Fe/H], and {alpha}-element enhancement [{alpha}/Fe] by using a full-spectrum fitting technique based on a grid of synthetic stellar atmospheres and a novel minimization algorithm. We also provide projected rotational velocity vsini and radial velocity vrad estimates. The overall absolute flux uncertainty in the reprocessed data set is better than 2%, with subpercent accuracy for about half of the stars. A comparison of the recalibrated UVES-POP spectra with other spectral libraries shows a very good agreement in flux; at the same time, Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra are often discrepant with our data, which we attribute to spectrophotometric calibration issues in Gaia DR3.

Keywords
  1. visible-astronomy
  2. spectroscopy
  3. stellar-ages
  4. stellar-masses
  5. chemical-abundances
  6. radial-velocity
  7. stellar-spectral-types
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2023ApJS..266...11B
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2023-09-18T10:22:50Z
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2023-09-18T09:52:14Z
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