# Stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter   Spectral Library

**Authors:** Anke Arentsen, Philippe Prugniel, Anais Gonneau, Ariane Lan\c{c}on,, Scott Trager, Reynier Peletier, Mariya Lyubenova, Yan-Ping Chen, Jes\'us, Falc\'on Barroso, Patricia S\'anchez Bl\'azquez, and Alejandro Vazdekis

arXiv: 1907.06391 · 2019-07-24

## TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive set of stellar atmospheric parameters for 754 spectra from the X-shooter Spectral Library, covering a wide range of stellar types and metallicities, useful for stellar population studies.

## Contribution

The work introduces a uniform and precise set of stellar parameters for a large stellar library using full-spectrum fitting with ULySS and the MILES library, covering a broad parameter space.

## Key findings

- Parameters cover a wide range of stellar types and metallicities.
- High precision measurements for G- and K-type stars.
- Good internal consistency and comparison with literature results.

## Abstract

The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is an empirical stellar library at medium spectral resolution covering the wavelength range from 3000 \AA to 24 800 \AA. This library aims to provide a benchmark for stellar population studies. In this work, we present a uniform set of stellar atmospheric parameters, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and iron abundances for 754 spectra of 616 XSL stars. We used the full-spectrum fitting package ULySS with the empirical MILES library as reference to fit the ultraviolet-blue (UVB) and visible (VIS) spectra. We tested the internal consistency and we compared our results with compilations from the literature. The stars cover a range of effective temperature 2900 < Teff < 38 000 K, surface gravity 0 < log g < 5.7, and iron abundance -2.5 < [Fe/H] < +1.0, with a couple of stars extending down to [Fe/H] = -3.9. The precisions of the measurements for the G- and K-type stars are 0.9%, 0.14, and 0.06 in Teff, log g, and [Fe/H], respectively. For the cool giants with log g < 1, the precisions are 2.1%, 0.21, and 0.22, and for the other cool stars these values are 1%, 0.14, and 0.10. For the hotter stars (Teff > 6500 K), these values are 2.6%, 0.20, and 0.10 for the three parameters.

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