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astro-ph.SR2026

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: Impact of Spectral Resolution on Stellar Abundances

Ivanna Hernández-Araya, Claudia Aguilera-Gómez, Paula Jofré +5

In the era of large Milky Way spectroscopic surveys, calibrating and standardizing stellar parameters and abundance measurements is crucial. The Gaia benchmark stars (GBS) are key…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: spectral library, metallicities and abundances of and Fe-peak elements of the third version

L. Casamiquela, C. Soubiran, P. Jofré +14

The accurate determination of chemical abundances in stars plays a pivotal role in understanding stellar structure and evolution, nucleosynthesis, and the chemical enrichment histo…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 21 cited

VELOcities of CEpheids (VELOCE) I. High-precision radial velocities of Cepheids

Richard I. Anderson, Giordano Viviani, Shreeya S. Shetye +27

This first VELOCE data release comprises 18,225 high-precision RV measurements of 258 bona fide classical Cepheids on both hemispheres collected mainly between 2010 and 2022, along…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 13 cited

Stellar dating using chemical clocks and Bayesian inference

A. Moya, L. M. Sarro, E. Delgado-Mena +3

Dating stars is a major challenge with a deep impact on many astrophysical fields. One of the most promising techniques for this is using chemical abundances. Recent space- and gro…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

OCCASO IV. Radial Velocities and Open Cluster Kinematics

R. Carrera, L. Casamiquela, J. Carbajo-Hijarrubia +8

Context: Open clusters (OCs) are widely used as test particles to investigate a variety of astrophysical phenomena, from stellar evolution to Galactic evolution. Gaia and the compl…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 29 cited

Determination of spectroscopic parameters for 313 M dwarf stars from their APOGEE Data Release 16 H-band spectra

Pedro Sarmento, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala, Elisa Delgado Mena +1

The scientific community's interest on the stellar parameters of M dwarfs has been increasing over the last few years, with potential applications ranging from galactic characteriz…

astro-ph.SR2021

Connecting the formation of stars and planets. I -- Spectroscopic characterization of host stars with TIGRE

L. M. Flor-Torres, R. Coziol, K. -P. Schröder +3

In search for a connection between the formation of stars and the formation of planets, a new semi-automatic spectral analysis method using \textsf{iSpec} was developed for the TIG…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

Derivation of parameters for 3748 FGK stars using H-band spectra from APOGEE Data Release 14

Pedro Sarmento, Elisa Delgado Mena, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala +1

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has observed the H-band spectra of over 200 000 stars with . The main motivation for this work is t…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 20 cited

High-resolution spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of Li-rich giants found by LAMOST

Yutao Zhou, Hongliang Yan, Jianrong Shi +6

The discovery of Li-rich giant has cast a new challenge for the standard stellar evolution models, and to resolve this issue, the number of this type object has been rapidly increa…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 325 cited

Modern stellar spectroscopy caveats

Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma

Multiple codes are available to derive atmospheric parameters and individual chemical abundances from high-resolution spectra of AFGKM stars. Almost all spectroscopists have their…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 33 cited

Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye

Łukasz Wyrzykowski, P. Mróz, K. A. Rybicki +182

Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 25 cited

The Gaia FGK benchmark stars version 2.1

Paula Jofre, Ulrike Heiter, Marcelo Tucci Maia +5

The Gaia FGK benchmark stars are among the preferred samples of reference stars to test parametrisation pipelines of spectroscopic surveys. They consist of a small but carefully se…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 22 cited

A phylogenetic approach to chemical tagging. Reassembling open cluster stars

Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Didier Fraix-Burnet

Context. The chemical tagging technique is a promising approach to reconstruct the history of the Galaxy by only using stellar chemical abundances. Different studies have undertake…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 57 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Evidence of atomic diffusion in M67?

C. Bertelli Motta, A. Pasquali, J. Richer +37

Investigating the chemical homogeneity of stars born from the same molecular cloud at virtually the same time is very important for our understanding of the chemical enrichment of…

astro-ph.SR2018

Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams

Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450

We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 71 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the variability processing & analysis results

B. Holl, M. Audard, K. Nienartowicz +60

The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2): we summarise the processing and results of the identification of variable source candidates of RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, long period variables (LPVs)…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 101 cited

Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588

Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 3 cited

Re-grouping stars based on the chemical tagging technique: A case study of M67 and IC4651

S. Blanco-Cuaresma, C. Soubiran

The chemical tagging technique proposed by Freeman & Bland-Hawthorn (2002) is based on the idea that stars formed from the same molecular cloud should share the same chemical signa…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 2 cited

How much can we trust high-resolution spectroscopic stellar chemical abundances?

S. Blanco-Cuaresma, T. Nordlander, U. Heiter +8

To study stellar populations, it is common to combine chemical abundances from different spectroscopic surveys/studies where different setups were used. These inhomogeneities can l…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 3 cited

How much can we trust high-resolution spectroscopic stellar atmospheric parameters?

S. Blanco-Cuaresma, T. Nordlander, U. Heiter +8

The determination of atmospheric parameters depends on the use of radiative transfer codes (among other elements such as model atmospheres) to compute synthetic spectra and/or deri…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 2 cited

A test field for Gaia. Radial velocity catalogue of stars in the South Ecliptic Pole

Y. Frémat, M. Altmann, E. Pancino +25

Gaia is a space mission currently measuring the five astrometric parameters as well as spectrophotometry of at least 1 billion stars to G = 20.7 mag with unprecedented precision. T…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 34 cited

Vetting Galactic Leavitt Law Calibrators using Radial Velocities: On the Variability, Binarity, and Possible Parallax Error of 19 Long-period Cepheids

R. I. Anderson, S. Casertano, A. G. Riess +9

We investigate the radial velocity (RV) variability and spectroscopic binarity of 19 Galactic long-period ( d) classical Cepheid variable stars whose trig…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 12 cited

Stellar twins determine the distance of the Pleiades

Thomas Mädler, Paula Jofré, Gerard Gilmore +5

Since the release of the Hipparcos catalog in 1997, the distance to the Pleiades open cluster has been heavily debated. The distance obtained from Hipparcos and those by alternativ…