Exploring the SDSS Dataset with Linked Scatter Plots: I. EMP, CEMP, and CV Stars
| Autor: | Bron Nelson, Duane F. Carbon, Christopher E. Henze |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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FOS: Physical sciences
Cataclysmic variable star Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics 01 natural sciences Article Spectral line 010104 statistics & probability 0103 physical sciences Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 0101 mathematics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics Astronomy and Astrophysics Quasar Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Galaxy LAMOST Stars Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Phase space Scatter plot Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| Popis: | We present the results of a search for extremely metal-poor (EMP), carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP), and cataclysmic variable (CV) stars using a new exploration tool based on linked scatter plots (LSPs). Our approach is especially designed to work with very large spectrum data sets such as the SDSS, LAMOST, RAVE, and Gaia data sets, and it can be applied to stellar, galaxy, and quasar spectra. As a demonstration, we conduct our search using the SDSS DR10 data set. We first created a 3326-dimensional phase space containing nearly 2 billion measures of the strengths of over 1600 spectral features in 569,738 SDSS stars. These measures capture essentially all the stellar atomic and molecular species visible at the resolution of SDSS spectra. We show how LSPs can be used to quickly isolate and examine interesting portions of this phase space. To illustrate, we use LSPs coupled with cuts in selected portions of phase space to extract EMP stars, CEMP stars, and CV stars. We present identifications for 59 previously unrecognized candidate EMP stars and 11 previously unrecognized candidate CEMP stars. We also call attention to 2 candidate He~II emission CV stars found by the LSP approach that have not yet been discussed in the literature. Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal Supplement (February 2017) |
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