RED GIANT STARS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. II. DISTANCES
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| 作者 | Tan, Kefeng ; Chen, Yuqin; Carrell, Kenneth; Zhao, Jingkun; Zhao, Gang
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| 刊名 | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
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| 出版日期 | 2014-10-10 |
| 卷号 | 794期号:1 |
| 关键词 | Galaxy: stellar content stars: distances |
| 英文摘要 | We present distance determinations for a large and clean sample of red giant branch stars selected from the ninth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The distances are calculated based on both observational cluster fiducials and theoretical isochrones. Distributions of distances from the two methods are very similar with peaks at about 10 kpc and tails extending to more than 70 kpc. We find that distances from the two methods agree well for the majority of the sample stars; though, on average, distances based on isochrones are 10% higher than those based on fiducials. We test the accuracy of our distance determinations using 332 stars from 10 Galactic globular and open clusters. The average relative deviation from the literature cluster distances is 4% for the fiducial-based distances and 8% for the isochrone-based distances, both of which are within the uncertainties. We find that the effective temperature and surface gravity derived from low-resolution spectra are not accurate enough to essentially improve the performance of distance determinations. However, for stars with significant extinction, effective temperature may help to better constrain their distances to some extent. We make our sample stars and their distances available from an online catalog. The catalog comprises 17,941 stars with reasonable distance estimations reaching to more than 70 kpc, which is suitable for the investigation of the formation and evolution of the Galaxy, especially the Galactic halo. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000342581200060 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/6529]  |
| 专题 | 国家天文台_光学天文研究部 |
| 作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Key Lab Opt Astron, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tan, Kefeng,Chen, Yuqin,Carrell, Kenneth,et al. RED GIANT STARS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. II. DISTANCES[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2014,794(1). |
| APA | Tan, Kefeng,Chen, Yuqin,Carrell, Kenneth,Zhao, Jingkun,&Zhao, Gang.(2014).RED GIANT STARS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. II. DISTANCES.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,794(1). |
| MLA | Tan, Kefeng,et al."RED GIANT STARS FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. II. DISTANCES".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 794.1(2014). |
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