Ariel stellar characterisation: I -- homogeneous stellar parameters of 187 FGK planet host stars Description and validation of the method

Abstract

In 2020 the European Space Agency selected Ariel as the next mission to join the space fleet of observatories to study planets outside our Solar System. Ariel will be devoted to the characterisation of a thousand planetary atmospheres, for understanding what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they evolve. To achieve the last two goals all planets need to be studied within the context of their own host stars, which in turn have to be analysed with the same technique, in a uniform way. We present the spectro-photometric method we have developed to infer the atmospheric parameters of the known host stars in the Tier 1 of the Ariel Reference Sample. Our method is based on an iterative approach, which combines spectral analysis, the determination of the surface gravity from {\em Gaia} data, and the determination of stellar masses from isochrone fitting. We validated our approach with the analysis of a control sample, composed by members of three open clusters with well-known ages and metallicities. We measured effective temperature, Teff, surface gravity, logg, and the metallicity, [Fe/H], of 187 F-G-K stars within the Ariel Reference Sample. We presented the general properties of the sample, including their kinematics which allows us to separate them between thin and thick disc populations. A homogeneous determination of the parameters of the host stars is fundamental in the study of the stars themselves and their planetary systems. Our analysis systematically improves agreement with theoretical models and decreases uncertainties in the mass estimate (from 0.21+/-0.30 to 0.10+/-0.02 M_sun), providing useful data for the Ariel consortium and the astronomical community at large.

Accepted for publication in A&A, 13 pages, 14 figures, Tables A1 and A2 in the Appendix will be available at CDS and can be requested by email to: [email protected]

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