Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars-V. Evidence for a wide age distribution and a complex MDF

T Bensby, JC Yee, S Feltzing, JA Johnson… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Based on high-resolution spectra obtained during gravitational microlensing events we
present a detailed elemental abundance analysis of 32 dwarf and subgiant stars in the …

Gaia FGK benchmark stars: Effective temperatures and surface gravities

U Heiter, P Jofré, B Gustafsson, AJ Korn… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. In the era of large Galactic stellar surveys, carefully calibrating and validating the
data sets has become an important and integral part of the data analysis. Moreover, new …

ariadne: measuring accurate and precise stellar parameters through SED fitting

JI Vines, JS Jenkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Accurately measuring stellar parameters is a key goal to increase our understanding of the
observable Universe. However, current methods are limited by many factors, in particular …

Gaia FGK benchmark stars: Metallicity

P Jofré, U Heiter, C Soubiran… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. To calibrate automatic pipelines that determine atmospheric parameters of stars,
one needs a sample of stars, or “benchmark stars”, with well-defined parameters to be used …

A New View of the Solar Interface Region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

B De Pontieu, V Polito, V Hansteen, P Testa… - Solar Physics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near-and far-
ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. IRIS is the highest …

Stellar abundances in the solar neighborhood: the Hypatia Catalog

NR Hinkel, FX Timmes, PA Young… - The Astronomical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We compile spectroscopic abundance data from 84 literature sources for 50 elements
across 3058 stars in the solar neighborhood, within 150 pc of the Sun, to produce the …

A new library of theoretical stellar spectra with scaled-solar and α-enhanced mixtures

PRT Coelho - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Theoretical stellar libraries have been increasingly used to overcome limitations of empirical
libraries, eg by exploring atmospheric parameter spaces not well represented in the latter …

Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars-IV. Two bulge populations

T Bensby, D Adén, J Melendez, A Gould… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
Based on high-resolution (R≈ 42 000 to 48 000) and high signal-to-noise (S/N≈ 50 to 150)
spectra obtained with UVES/VLT, we present detailed elemental abundances (O, Na, Mg, Al …

The Gaia astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis)-pre-launch description

CAL Bailer-Jones, R Andrae, B Arcay… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
The Gaia satellite will survey the entire celestial sphere down to 20th magnitude, obtaining
astrometry, photometry, and low resolution spectrophotometry on one billion astronomical …

Chemical abundances in LMC stellar populations-II. The bar sample

M Van der Swaelmen, V Hill, F Primas… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Aims. This paper compares the chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to
that of the Milky Way (MW) and investigates the relation between the bar and the inner disc …