| Issue |
A&A
Volume 652, August 2021
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| Article Number | A26 | |
| Number of page(s) | 17 | |
| Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140763 | |
| Published online | 03 August 2021 | |
Progress on the calibration of surface brightness–color relations for early- and late-type stars★
1
Université Côte d’Azur, OCA, CNRS,
Laboratoire Lagrange, France
e-mail: anthony.salsi@oca.eu
2
Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Rabiánska 8,
87-100
Torun, Poland
3
Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika PAN,
Bartycka 18,
00-716
Warsaw, Poland
4
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG,
38000
Grenoble, France
5
Universidad de Concepción, Departamento de Astronomía,
Concepción, Chile
6
The CHARA Array of Georgia State University, Mount Wilson Observatory,
Mount Wilson,
CA 91023, USA
Received:
9
March
2021
Accepted:
2
June
2021
Context. Surface brightness-color relations (SBCRs) are widely used for estimating angular diameters and deriving stellar properties. They are critical to derive extragalactic distances of early-type and late-type eclipsing binaries or, potentially, for extracting planetary parameters of late-type stars hosting planets. Various SBCRs have been implemented so far, but strong discrepancies in terms of precision and accuracy still exist in the literature.
Aims. We aim to develop a precise SBCR for early-type B and A stars using selection criteria, based on stellar characteristics, and combined with homogeneous interferometric angular diameter measurements. We also improve SBCRs for late-type stars, in particular in the Gaia photometric band.
Methods. We observed 18 early-type stars with the VEGA interferometric instrument, installed on the CHARA array. We then applied additional criteria on the photometric measurements, together with stellar characteristics diagnostics in order to build the SBCRs.
Results. We calibrated a SBCR for subgiant and dwarf early-type stars. The RMS of the relation is σFV0 = 0.0051 mag, leading to an average precision of 2.3% on the estimation of angular diameters, with 3.1% for V −K < −0.2 mag and 1.8% for V −K > −0.2 mag. We found that the conversion between Johnson-K and 2MASS-Ks photometries is a key issue for early-type stars. Following this result, we have revisited our previous SBCRs for late-type stars by calibrating them with either converted Johnson-K or 2MASS-Ks photometries. We also improve the calibration of these SBCRs based on the Gaia photometry. The expected precision on the angular diameter using our SBCRs for late-type stars ranges from 1.0 to 2.7%.
Conclusions. By reaching a precision of 2.3% on the estimation of angular diameters for early-type stars, significant progress has been made to determine extragalactic distances, such as M31 and M33 galaxies, using early-type eclipsing binaries.
Key words: stars: fundamental parameters / distance scale / techniques: interferometric
© A. Salsi et al. 2021
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