Issue |
A&A
Volume 512, March-April 2010
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Article Number | A54 | |
Number of page(s) | 22 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913204 | |
Published online | 01 April 2010 |
An absolutely calibrated Teff scale from the infrared flux method*
Dwarfs and subgiants
1
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
Postfach 1317, 85741 Garching, Germany e-mail: luca@mpa-garching.mpg.de
2
Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto,
Rua das Estrelas 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
3
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Cotter Rd, ACT 2611, Australia
Received:
28
August
2009
Accepted:
6
January
2010
Various effective temperature scales have been proposed over the years. Despite much work and the high internal precision usually achieved, systematic differences of order 100 K (or more) among various scales are still present. We present an investigation based on the infrared flux method aimed at assessing the source of such discrepancies and pin down their origin. We break the impasse among different scales by using a large set of solar twins, stars which are spectroscopically and photometrically identical to the Sun, to set the absolute zero point of the effective temperature scale to within few degrees. Our newly calibrated, accurate and precise temperature scale applies to dwarfs and subgiants, from super-solar metallicities to the most metal-poor stars currently known. At solar metallicities our results validate spectroscopic effective temperature scales, whereas for [Fe/H] -2.5 our temperatures are roughly 100 K hotter than those determined from model fits to the Balmer lines and 200 K hotter than those obtained from the excitation equilibrium of Fe lines. Empirical bolometric corrections and useful relations linking photometric indices to effective temperatures and angular diameters have been derived. Our results take full advantage of the high accuracy reached in absolute calibration in recent years and are further validated by interferometric angular diameters and space based spectrophotometry over a wide range of effective temperatures and metallicities.
Key words: stars: fundamental parameters / stars: abundances / stars: atmospheres / infrared: stars / techniques: photometric
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