Observed Stellar Spectra As Templates for Gaia
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Universit`adegli Studi di Padova DIPARTIMENTO DI ASTRONOMIA Dottorato di Ricerca in Astronomia XXIII ciclo Observed Stellar Spectra As Templates For Gaia Coordinatore: Prof. Giampaolo Piotto Supervisori: Prof. Antonella Vallenari Prof. Ulisse Munari Dottoranda: Tenay Saguner 2 31 Gennaio 2011 To My Family & To Prof. I. Ethem Derman Contents Index i Figures List x Tables List x 1 Introduction 1 2 The Gaia Mission 3 2.1 OverviewOfTheGaiaMission . 5 2.1.1 MeasurementPrinciples . 5 2.1.2 ObservationPrinciple . 7 2.1.3 Instruments And Performances . 7 2.1.4 TheAccuracyOfGaiaMeasurements . 10 2.2 The Classification of Gaia objects . ..... 15 2.3 TheFinalCatalogue ............................... 16 2.4 TheImportanceoftrainingdata . 16 3 The Red Clump Stars 19 3.1 The Structure And The Evolution Of the Red Clump . 19 3.2 RedClumpStarsInTheLiterature. 21 4 Target Selection and The Input Catalog 23 4.1 TargetSelectionCriteria. 23 i ii 5 Observations And Data Reduction 27 5.1 The B&C Spectrograph At The 1.22 meter TelescopeInAsiago ............................... 27 5.2 Softwares To Use The 1.22 meter Telescope . ..... 29 5.3 DataAcquisitionAtTheTelescope . 29 5.4 Selecting The Wavelength Interval To Observe . ....... 31 5.5 DataReduction.................................. 35 5.5.1 WavelengthCalibration . 38 5.5.2 ContinuumNormalization . 38 5.5.3 HeliocentricCorrection . 41 6 Measuring Radial Velocities 45 6.1 Cross-CorrelationTechnique. 45 6.2 Accuracy Tests With IAU Radial Velocity Standards . ........ 48 6.3 ExtendedTestsOnRadialVelocities . ..... 52 7 Atmospheric Parameter Determonation 55 7.1 χ2 Technique ................................... 55 7.1.1 TheSyntheticspectralLibrary . 56 7.1.2 The χ2 Methods ............................. 58 7.2 Accuracy Tests With Red Clump Stars In the Literature . ........ 59 7.3 Comparison With Photometric Temperatures . ...... 65 8 Repeated Observations Of Target Stars 71 8.1 The Final Data Quality Control From Repeated Observations........ 71 8.2 RadialVelocities ................................ 72 8.3 AtmosphericParameters. 74 9 Constructing The Output Catalog 75 9.1 Determination Of Spectro-photometric Distances . ......... 75 9.1.1 LuminosityClassII ........................... 79 9.2 Determination Of The Galactocentric Galactic Coordinates ......... 80 iii 9.3 Determination Of The Galactic Velocities . ....... 80 9.3.1 The Uncertainties In The Velocity Components . ..... 83 9.4 The Output Catalog Of 305 Red Clump Stars . 84 10 The Catalog Stars As Solar Vicinity Tracers 101 10.1 Atmospheric Parameters Of Red Clump Stars As A Function Of Spectral TypeandMetallicity...............................102 10.2TheMilkyWay..................................103 10.2.1 Milky Way Kinematics Traced By Red Clump Giants . 104 10.2.2 MovingGroups..............................106 10.2.3 StarKinematics .............................109 10.2.4 ToomreDiagram . .111 10.2.5 LocalStandardOfRest . .112 10.2.6 Milky Way Structure Traced By Red Clump Giants . 115 10.3 Age-MetallicityRelation . 115 Bibliography 121 iv List of Figures 2.1 An artistic expression of Gaia satellite. ......... 7 2.2 TheGaiascanninglaw.............................. 8 2.3 The sky coverage of Gaia after 5 years mission time . ....... 8 2.4 TheFocalPlaneOfGaia ............................ 9 2.5 Gaia’sspinaxisandfielsofviews . 10 2.6 Example of spectra of A, G, M supergiants in the Gaia range ........ 12 2.7 Correlation between the 8620 A˚ DIBandthereddening . 13 3.1 Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram of 41704 single stars from Hipparcos Catalog 20 4.1 Aitoff projection in Equatorial coordinates of our target stars. The thick linerepresentstheGalacticequator. 24 4.2 Aitoff projection in Galactic coordinates of our target stars. ......... 24 4.3 Distribution in V and K magnitudes and spectral type of our target stars and the other surveys of Red Clump stars in the literature: Takeda et al. (2008), Hekker & Melendez (2007), Mishenina et al. (2006). ........ 25 4.4 The comparison of the properties for Red Clump stars in Valentini & Munari (2010) spectroscopic survey and in this study. ...... 26 5.1 Schematic Description For The Instruments . ....... 27 5.2 Wavelength range of survey stars . 32 5.3 Trial wavelength range for performance tests. ......... 32 5.4 Comparison of atmospheric parameters from first wavelength range . 36 5.5 Comparison of atmospheric parameters from second wavelength range . 36 5.6 Re-identifiedFe-ArCalibrationLamp . 39 v vi 5.7 Re-identified Fe-Ar Calibration Lamp Continued . ...... 40 6.1 Gaussian fit to the maximum of the correlation peak . ....... 47 6.2 Object and the template spectra for cross-correlation at FXCOR ...... 47 6.3 Radial velocity determination tests on IAU RV standards .......... 49 6.4 Comparison of radial velocities for IAU RV standards . ......... 50 6.5 Comparison of radial velocities with Pulkovo compilation of radial velocities 52 7.1 The χ2 interface that we used for atmospheric parameter calculation . 56 7.2 The χ2 interface that we used for atmospheric parameter calculation . 57 7.3 The χ2 interface that we used for atmospheric parameter calculation . 57 7.4 Differences between atmospheric parameters derived from χ2 and those from literature. Empty squares are the data from Takeda et al. (2008),filled triangles Hekker & Melendez (1997) and the crosses from Soubiran (2005). 64 7.5 Temperatures from V K ...................... 67 tycho − 2Mass 7.6 Temperatures from B V ....................... 67 Tycho − Tycho 7.7 Temperatures from (J K)........................... 68 − 7.8 TemperaturesfromMcWilliam . 69 8.1 Used night sky lines for data quality control from FWHM of the lines. 72 8.2 Comparison of the differences in atmospheric parameters with FWHM cut . 73 8.3 Distribution of the differences in radial velocities for repeated observations of60RedClumpstars............................... 73 8.4 Distribution of the differences in atmospheric parameters for repeated ob- servationsof60RedClumpstars.. 74 8.5 The differences in effective temperature, gravity and metallicity against same values from first epoch observations for repeated observations. 74 9.1 The distribution of uncertainty of distances σπ/π from Hipparcos New Re- duction (2007) for target stars. 75 9.2 The intrinsic absolute magnitude in Johnson V band calibration by Keenan & Barnbaum (1999) as a function of spectral type for class IIIb giants. 76 9.3 Thecomparisonofdistances. 78 vii 9.4 The comparison of distances derived with absolute V band magnitude cal- ibration by Keenan & Barnbaum and with absolute K band magnitude calibrationbyAlves. ............................... 78 9.5 Relation between surface gravity and orbital energy . .......... 79 9.6 The derived Galactic positions (X,Y,Z) for target stars as seen from the vantage point of North Galactic Pole (α = 12h49s,δ = 27◦.4). The red circle represents 0.2kpc field and the green circle represents 0.4kpc field. 81 9.7 The definition of Galactic velocities (U,V,W ).................. 81 9.8 The derived Galactic velocities (U,V,W ) for target stars. 83 9.9 The distribution of the uncertainties of the (U,V,W ) velocity components. 84 10.1 Positional properties of observed Red Clump stars . ..........101 10.2 Teff , logg, [M/H] and U,V,W space velocities as a function of spectral type. 102 10.3 Teff - log g plane plotted as a function of spectral type. 103 10.4 Teff - log g plane plotted as a function of the metallicity. 103 10.5 The (U,V,W ) space velocity distribution of the 245 Red Clump stars. 105 10.6 The (U,V,W ) space velocities as a function of metallicity [M/H]. 106 10.7 The (U,V,W ) space velocities as a function of metallicity [M/H]. 106 10.8 The (U,V,W ) space velocities as a function of gravity (log g). ........107 10.9 The (U,V,W ) space velocities as a function of spectral type.. 107 10.10The relative U velocity and average star counts to define streams, taken fromSkuljanetal.1999..............................108 10.11The relative U velocity and average star counts for defining streams traced by245RedClumpstars .............................109 10.12Density field in the Vrot-[Fe/H] plane from Antoja et al. 2008 . 109 10.13The U-V space velocities for different metallicities . ............111 10.14Toomre diagram of 245 observed Red Clump stars. The dotted lines show a constant space velocity with respect to LST in steps of 50 kms−1 . 112 10.15The distribution of the Galactic space velocities calculated for 245 observed RedClumpstars..................................114 10.16The distribution of the Galactic space velocities calculated for high proba- bilitythindiscstars. ............................... 115 viii 10.17The distance versus Galactic scale height as a function of metallicity for observedRedClumpgiants.. .116 10.18Comparison of the Galactic (X,Y,X) coordinates with Valentini & Munari (2010)........................................117 10.19Age-Metallicity relation of target stars. ...........118 10.20(B V ) colours by Tycho-2 and by Girardi’s Param are compared (left − panel). logg values derived by χ2 fitting and derived from Girardi’s Param Evolutionary tracks are compared (right panel). .......119 10.21The Radii-Mass and Radii-logg plot for target stars. ..........120 List of Tables 2.1 Expected numbers of specific objects observed by Gaia . ......... 5 2.2 Main differences between Gaia and Hipparcos missions . ......... 6 2.3 StandarderrorsonGaiaparallaxes . ..... 10 2.4 Standard errors on Gaia spectrophotometry . ....... 11 2.5 Standard Errors on Gaia Radial Velocities . ....... 14 2.6 Expected precision