Metallicity and absolute magnitude calibrations for F-G type main-sequence stars in the Gaia era

Abstract

In this study, photometric metallicity and absolute magnitude calibrations were derived using F-G spectral type main-sequence stars in the Solar neighbourhood with precise spectroscopic, photometric and Gaia astrometric data for UBV photometry. The sample consists of 504 main-sequence stars covering the temperature, surface gravity and colour index intervals $5300<T_{eff}<7300$ K, $\log g>4$ (cgs) and $0.3<(B-V{)}_0<0.8$ mag, respectively. Stars with relative trigonometric parallax errors ${\sigma }_{\pi }/\pi \le 0.01$ were preferred from Gaia DR2 data for the estimation of their $M_V$ absolute magnitudes. In order to obtain calibrations, $(U-B{)}_0$ and $(B-V{)}_0$ colour indices of stars were preferred and a multi-variable second order equation was used. Calibrations are valid for main-sequence stars in the metallicity and absolute magnitude ranges $-2<[Fe/H]<0.5$ dex and $2.5<M_V<6$ mag, respectively. The mean value and standard deviation of the differences between original and estimated values for the metal abundance and absolute magnitude are $⟨\Delta [Fe/H]⟩=0.00\pm 0.11$ dex and $⟨\Delta M_V⟩=0.00\pm 0.22$ mag, respectively. In this work, it has been shown that more precise iron abundance and absolute magnitude values were obtained with the new calibrations, compared to previous calibrations in the literature.

14 pages, 10 figures and 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science

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