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American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Journal, 2(139), p. 646-667, 2010

DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/2/646

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F, G, K, M SPECTRAL STANDARDS IN THEYBAND (0.95-1.11 μm)

Journal article published in 2010 by Chelsea Sharon, Lynne Hillenbrand, William Fischer ORCID, Suzan Edwards
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We take advantage of good atmospheric transparency and the availability of high-quality instrumentation in the 1 mum near-infrared atmospheric window to present a grid of F, G, K, and M spectral standards observed at high spectral resolution (R ≈ 25, 000). In addition to a spectral atlas, we present a catalog of atomic line absorption features in the 0.95-1.11 mum range. The catalog includes a wide range of line excitation potentials, from 0-13 eV, arising from neutral and singly ionized species, most frequently those of Fe I and Ti I at low excitation, Cr I, Fe I, and Si I at moderate excitation, and C I, S I, and Si I having relatively high excitation. The spectra also include several prominent molecular bands from CN and FeH. For the atomic species, we analyze trends in the excitation potential, line depth, and equivalent width across the grid of spectroscopic standards to identify temperature and surface gravity diagnostics near 1 mum. We identify the line ratios that appear especially useful for spectral typing as those involving Ti I and C I or S I, which are temperature sensitive in opposite directions, and Sr II, which is gravity sensitive at all spectral types. ASCII versions of all spectra are available in the online version of the journal.