The ability of intermediate-band Stromgren photometry to correctly identify dwarf, subgiant, and giant stars and provide stellar metallicities and surface gravities

Details The ability of intermediate-band Stromgren photometry to correctly identify dwarf, subgiant, and giant stars and provide stellar metallicities and surface gravities The ability of intermediate-band Stromgren photometry to correctly identify dwarf, subgiant, and giant stars and provide stellar metallicities and surface gravities

2010-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3848v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A, 34 pages, including on-line material

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/200913544

[Abridged] Several large scale photometric and spectroscopic surveys are being undertaken to provide a more detailed picture of the Milky Way. Given the necessity of generalisation in the determination of, e.g., stellar parameters when tens and hundred of thousands of stars are considered it remains important to provide independent, detailed studies to verify the methods used in the surveys. We evaluate available calibrations for deriving [M/H] from Stromgren photometry and develop the standard sequences for dwarf stars to reflect their metallicity dependence and test how well metallicities derived from ugriz photometry reproduce metallicities derived from the well-tested system of Stromgren photometry. We use a catalogue of dwarf stars with both Stromgren uvby photometry and spectroscopically determined iron abundances (in total 451 dwarf stars with 0.3<(b-y)_0<1.0). We also evaluate available calibrations that determine log g. A larger catalogue, in which metallicity is determined directly from uvby photometry, is used to trace metallicity-dependent standard sequences for dwarf stars. We derive new standard sequences in the c_1,0 versus (b-y)_0 plane and in the c_1,0 versus (v-y)_0 plane for dwarf stars with 0.40 < (b-y)_0 < 0.95 and 1.10 < (v-y)_0 < 2.38. We recommend the calibrations by Ramirez & Me'endez (2005) for deriving metallicities from Stromgren photometry and find that intermediate band photometry, such as Stromgren photometry, more accurately than broad band photometry reproduces spectroscopically determined [Fe/H]. Stromgren photometry is also better at differentiating between dwarf and giant stars. We conclude that additional investigations of the differences between metallicities derived from ugriz photometry and intermediate-band photometry, such as Stromgren photometry, are required.

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