Synthetic Spectra and Color-Temperature Relations of M Giants

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1999-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911383v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the March 2000 issue of the Astronomical Journal. 60 pages including 15 embedded postscript figures (one page eac

Scientific paper

10.1086/301244

As part of a project to model the integrated spectra and colors of elliptical galaxies through evolutionary synthesis, we have refined our synthetic spectrum calculations of M giants. After critically assessing three effective temperature scales for M giants, we adopted the relation of Dyck et al. (1996) for our models. Using empirical spectra of field M giants as a guide, we then calculated MARCS stellar atmosphere models and SSG synthetic spectra of these cool stars, adjusting the band absorption oscillator strengths of the TiO bands to better reproduce the observational data. The resulting synthetic spectra are found to be in very good agreement with the K-band spectra of stars of the appropriate spectral type taken from Kleinmann & Hall (1986) as well. Spectral types estimated from the strengths of the TiO bands and the depth of the bandhead of CO near 2.3 microns quantitatively confirm that the synthetic spectra are good representations of those of field M giants. The broad-band colors of the models match the field relations of K and early-M giants very well; for late-M giants, differences between the field-star and synthetic colors are probably caused by the omission of spectral lines of VO and water in the spectrum synthesis calculations. Here, we present four grids of K-band bolometric corrections and colors -- Johnson U-V and B-V; Cousins V-R and V-I; Johnson-Glass V-K, J-K and H-K; and CIT/CTIO V-K, J-K, H-K and CO -- for models having 3000 K < Teff < 4000 K and -0.5 < log g < 1.5. These grids, which have [Fe/H] = +0.25, 0.0, -0.5 and -1.0, extend and supplement the color-temperature relations of hotter stars presented in a companion paper (astro-ph/9911367).

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