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G矮星和K矮星的uvbyHbeta金属丰度刻度

The uvbyHbeta Metallicity Calibration for G and K Dwarfs

B. A. Twarog, L. C. Vargas, B. J. Anthony-Twarog

摘要:

本文研究了较冷矮星(Teff ~ 6500 ~ 5000 K)的紫外测光系统初级指数与金属丰度的关系。用于分析的数据库由Valenti和Fischer(2005)金属丰度表上1801颗恒星的选定高色散光谱丰度的复合目录和超过35,000颗恒星的高精度uvbyHbeta测光的合并目录之间的重叠组成。虽然F矮星的[Fe/H]最好由m_1估算,但正如预期的那样,对c_1有适度的依赖性,对于较热的G矮星,模式相反,c_1成为主导指标。对于较冷的G矮星和K星,c_1的优势继续存在,但是出现了一个不连续性,使得在(b-y)= 0.50和0.58之间且[Fe/H] >= +0.25的恒星具有将它们分类为亚巨星的m_1和c_1指数,证实了基于小得多的样本的早期结果。对m_1和c_1的敏感性的逆转部分地可追溯到(b-y)指数的金属丰度敏感性。此外,(b-y)在太阳金属丰度以上的恒星中以非线性的方式变大,导致一些标准的本征色关系高估了超富金属恒星的红化。基于使用合成光谱指数的成功测试和观测结果之间的经验趋势,在[Fe/H] >=-1.0的情况下,金属丰度校准与Hbeta而不是(b-y)相关,在整个感兴趣的温度范围内,在残差之间产生从0.061 dex到0.085 dex的分散。新的校准有一个额外的优点,即比以前的校准对红化误差的敏感性要低得多。

英文摘要:

The metallicity dependence of the primary indices of the uvby photometric system for cooler dwarfs (Teff ~ 6500 K to 5000K) is investigated. The data base for the analysis is composed of the overlap between a composite catalog of selected, high-dispersion spectroscopic abundances for 1801 stars on the metallicity scale of Valenti and Fischer (2005) and a merged catalog of high-precision uvbyHbeta photometry for over 35,000 stars. While [Fe/H] for F dwarfs is best estimated from m_1, with a modest dependence on c_1 as expected, for hotter G dwarfs the pattern reverses and c_1 becomes the dominant index. For cooler G dwarfs and K stars, the c_1 dominance continues, but a discontinuity appears such that stars between (b-y) = 0.50 and 0.58 with [Fe/H] >= +0.25 have m_1 and c_1 indices that classify them as subgiants, confirming an earlier result based upon a much smaller sample. The reversal in the sensitivity to m_1 and c_1 is traced, in part, to the metallicity sensitivity of the (b-y) index. Moreover, (b-y) grows larger in a non-linear fashion for stars above solar metallicity, leading to an overestimate of the reddening for super-metal-rich stars from some standard intrinsic color relations. Based upon successful tests using indices from synthetic spectra and the empirical trends among the observations, metallicity calibrations tied to Hbeta rather than (b-y) have been derived for [Fe/H] >= -1.0, generating dispersions among the residuals ranging from 0.061 dex to 0.085 dex over the entire temperature range of interest. The new calibrations have the added advantage of being significantly less sensitive to errors in reddening than previous calibrations.

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