Table · dataset · 2016
High-resolution NIR spectra of local giants
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We present a sample of 705 local giant stars observed using the New Mexico State University 1m telescope with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectrograph, for which we estimate stellar ages and the local star formation history (SFH).
Description
The high-resolution (R~22500), near infrared (1.51-1.7{mu}m) APOGEE spectra provide measurements of stellar atmospheric parameters (temperature, surface gravity, [M/H], and [{alpha}/M]).
Due to the smaller uncertainties in surface gravity possible with high-resolution spectra and accurate Hipparcos distance measurements, we are able to calculate the stellar masses to within 30%. For giants, the relatively rapid evolution up the red giant branch allows the age to be constrained by the mass. We examine methods of estimating age using both the mass-age relation directly and a Bayesian isochrone matching of measured parameters, assuming a constant SFH.
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To improve the SFH prior, we use a hierarchical modeling approach to constrain the parameters of the model SFH using the age probability distribution functions of the data. The results of an {alpha}-dependent Gaussian SFH model show a clear age-[{alpha}/M] relation at all ages. Using this SFH model as the prior for an empirical Bayesian analysis, we determine ages for individual stars.
The resulting age-metallicity relation is flat, with a slight decrease in [M/H] at the oldest ages and a ~0.5 dex spread in metallicity across most ages. For stars with ages <~1Gyr we find a smaller spread, consistent with radial migration having a smaller effect on these young stars than on the older stars.
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- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/817/40 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2016ApJ...817...40F ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...817...40F ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/817/40 ↗
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Topics
- Stated by source
- Infrared
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Stellar astronomy and planetary systems 78%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/817/40 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:510109 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (78%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
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