Photometric Strömgren-Hβ Quantification for O and B Stars of Luminosity Class V

Autor(en)
Nadia Kaltcheva, Valeri Golev, Ernst Paunzen
Abstrakt

In any photometric system, the relationship between the spectral type and the intrinsic colors is fundamental for the photometric stellar classification and for a reliable derivation of stellar parameters. Such relationships are being constantly verified and improved based on larger and better samples. The capability of the Strömgren-Hβ photometry to provide reddening-free quantities allows the classification of reddened stars over the entire spectral sequence. However, a detailed consistent tabulation of the uvbyβ quantities for the O-B9 part of the main sequence is currently warranted. We combine spectral types and photometry from the literature to provide a new empirical tabulation of the intrinsic color b - y, color differences c1, m1, [c1] and [m1] and the Hβ index for main-sequence (luminosity class V) stars of spectral types O4.5 through B9.5 in terms of spectral sub-types. Our survey is based on more than 1400 stars. We use the established c1 versus b - y intrinsic line and the accepted reddening slopes to obtain dereddened quantities and then calculate their median values as a function of the spectral sub-type. The classification ability of the system in this spectral range is reliable and the photometric quantities are not affected by the stellar rotation.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Masaryk University
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Band
129
Anzahl der Seiten
10
ISSN
0004-6280
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aa8cbd
Publikationsdatum
11-2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f315e1df-f93e-44a7-bd31-2a454b1d986b