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Gaia FGK benchmark stars: abundances of alpha and iron-peak elements

Authors :
Jofré P.
Heiter U.
Soubiran C.
Blanco-Cuaresma S.
Masseron T.
Nordlander T.
Chemin L.
Worley C. C.
Van Eck S.
Hourihane A.
Gilmore G.
Adibekyan V.
Bergemann M.
Cantat-Gaudin T.
Delgado-Mena E.
González Hernández J. I.
Guiglion G.
Lardo C.
de Laverny P.
Lind K.
Magrini L.
Mikolaitis S.
Montes D.
Pancino E.
Source :
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

In the current era of large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way reference stars for calibrating astrophysical parameters and chemical abundances are of paramount importance. We determine elemental abundances of Mg Si Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Co and Ni for our predefined set of Gaia FGK benchmark stars. By analysing high resolution and high signal to noise spectra taken from several archive datasets we combined results of eight different methods to determine abundances on a line by line basis. We perform a detailed homogeneous analysis of the systematic uncertainties such as differential versus absolute abundance analysis as well as we assess errors due to NLTE and the stellar parameters in our final abundances. Our results are provided by listing final abundances and the different sources of uncertainties as well as line by line and method by method abundances. The Gaia FGK benchmark stars atmospheric parameters are already being widely used for calibration of several pipelines applied to different surveys. With the added reference abundances of 10 elements this set is very suitable to calibrate the chemical abundances obtained by these pipelines.

Details

Volume :
582
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Accession number :
edsair.snsf.p3.pubs..d10dbeee0f1754298780ac969fcd2ef4