The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 191:301–339, 2010 December doi:10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/301 C 2010. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. THE SPITZER ATLAS OF STELLAR SPECTRA (SASS) David R. Ardila1, Schuyler D. Van Dyk2, Wojciech Makowiecki2, John Stauffer2, Inseok Song3, Jeonghee Rho2,4, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta2,5, D. W. Hoard2, and Stefanie Wachter2 1 NASA Herschel Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;
[email protected] 2 Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia at Athens, GA 30602-2451, USA 4 SOFIA Science Center, USRA/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA 94035, USA 5 WISE Science Data Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Received 2010 June 17; accepted 2010 October 22; published 2010 November 30 ABSTRACT We present the Spitzer Atlas of Stellar Spectra, which includes 159 stellar spectra (5–32 μm; R ∼ 100) taken with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. This Atlas gathers representative spectra of a broad section of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, intended to serve as a general stellar spectral reference in the mid-infrared. It includes stars from all luminosity classes, as well as Wolf-Rayet (WR) objects. Furthermore, it includes some objects of intrinsic interest, such as blue stragglers and certain pulsating variables. All of the spectra have been uniformly reduced, and all are available online. For dwarfs and giants, the spectra of early-type objects are relatively featureless, characterized by the presence of hydrogen lines in A spectral types.