Issue |
A&A
Volume 642, October 2020
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Article Number | A182 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038793 | |
Published online | 19 October 2020 |
Benchmark stars, benchmark spectrographs
Detailed spectroscopic comparison of ESPRESSO, PEPSI, and HARPS data for Gaia benchmark stars★
1
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP,
Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762
Porto, Portugal
e-mail: Vardan.Adibekyan@astro.up.pt
2
Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre,
4169-007
Porto, Portugal
3
European Southern Observatory,
Alonso de Córdova 3107,
Vitacura,
Región Metropolitana, Chile
4
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias,
38205
La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
5
Departamento de Astrofìsica, Universidad de La Laguna,
38206
La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
6
Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Bd de l’Observatoire, CS 34229,
06304
Nice cedex 4, France
7
INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Largo E. Fermi 5,
50125
Firenze, Italy
8
Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Alikhanian National Science Laboratory,
2 Alikhanian Brothers Str.,
0036
Yerevan, Armenia
9
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
69117
Heidelberg, Germany
Received:
29
June
2020
Accepted:
11
August
2020
Context. Gaia benchmark stars are selected to be calibration stars for different spectroscopic surveys. Very high-quality and homogeneous spectroscopic data for these stars are therefore required. We collected ultrahigh-resolution ESPRESSO spectra for 30 of the 34 Gaia benchmark stars and made them public.
Aims. We quantify the consistency of the results that are obtained with different high- (R ~ 115 000), and ultrahigh- (R ~ 220 000) resolution spectrographs. We also comprehensively studied the effect of using different spectral reduction products of ESPRESSO on the final spectroscopic results.
Methods. We used ultrahigh- and high-resolution spectra obtained with the ESPRESSO, PEPSI, and HARPS spectrographs to measure spectral line characteristics (line depth; line width; and equivalent width, EW) and determined stellar parameters and abundances for a subset of 11 Gaia benchmark stars. We used the ARES code for automatic measurements of the spectral line parameters.
Results. Our measurements reveal that the same individual spectral lines measured from adjacent 2D (spectrum in the wavelength-order space) echelle orders of ESPRESSO spectra differ slightly in line depth and line width. When a long list of spectral lines is considered, the EW measurements based on the 2D and 1D (the final spectral product) ESPRESSO spectra agree very well. The EW spectral line measurements based on the ESPRESSO, PEPSI, and HARPS spectra also agree to within a few percent. However, we note that the lines appear deeper in the ESPRESSO spectra than in PEPSI and HARPS. The stellar parameters derived from each spectrograph by combining the several available spectra agree well overall.
Conclusions. We conclude that the ESPRESSO, PEPSI, and HARPS spectrographs can deliver spectroscopic results that are sufficiently consistent for most of the science cases in stellar spectroscopy. However, we found small but important differences in the performance of the three spectrographs that can be crucial for specific science cases.
Key words: stars: fundamental parameters / techniques: spectroscopic / stars: abundances / instrumentation: spectrographs
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