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J/MNRAS/371/703    MILES library of empirical spectra  (Sanchez-Blazquez+, 2006)
Medium-resolution Isaac Newton Telescope library of empirical spectra.
    Sanchez-Blazquez P., Peletier R.F., Jimenez-Vicente J., Cardiel N.,
    Cenarro A.J., Falcon-Barroso J., Gorgas J., Selam S., Vazdekis A.
   <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 371, 703-718 (2006)>
   =2006MNRAS.371..703S
ADC_Keywords: Atlases ; Spectroscopy ; Models

Keywords: atlases - stars: fundamental parameters - galaxies: stellar content


Abstract:
    A new stellar library developed for stellar population synthesis
    modelling is presented. The library consists of 985 stars spanning a
    large range in atmospheric parameters. The spectra were obtained at
    the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope and cover the range 3525-7500Å at
    2.3Å (full width at half-maximum) spectral resolution. The spectral
    resolution, spectral-type coverage, flux-calibration accuracy and
    number of stars represent a substantial improvement over previous
    libraries used in population-synthesis models.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
catalog.dat      104      985   MILES star catalogue
sp/*               0      985   Spectra


See also:
  III/232 : STELIB: A library of stellar spectra at R 2000 (Le Borgne+, 2003)
  III/218 : ELODIE archive (Prugniel+, 2001)
  J/ApJS/94/687  : Old stellar populations. V. (Worthey+, 1994)
  J/ApJS/152/251 : Indo-US library of coude feed stellar spectra (Valdes+, 2004)
  J/MNRAS/374/664 : MILES stellar atmospheric parameters.
  http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/miles/miles.html : MILES Home Page


Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   1- 10  A10   ---     FileName  Name of the spectrum FITS file
                                   in subdirectory sp
  12- 27  A16   ---     Name      Object name
  29- 30  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (J2000)
  32- 33  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (J2000)
  35- 39  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (J2000)
      41  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000)
  42- 43  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000)
  45- 46  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000)
  48- 51  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000)
  53- 57  F5.3  mag     E(B-V)    ? Redenning
  59- 72  A14   ---     SpType    MK spectral type
  74- 78  I5    K       Teff      ?=- Effective temperature
  80- 84  F5.2  [cm/s2] logg      ?=- Surface gravity
  86- 90  F5.2  [Sun]   [Fe/H]    ?=- Metallicity
  92-100  A9    ---     Lib       Stars in common with other optical stellar
                                   libraries (1)
 102-104  I3    ---     CaT       ? ID number in Ca II triplet stellar library
                                    for common stars (2)

Note (1): Other optical stellar libraries as follows:
      L = Lick/IDS (Gorgas et al., 1993ApJS...86..153G,
                    Worthey et al. 1994, Cat. J/ApJS/94/687)
      J = Jones (1999, PhD Thesis, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
      S = STELIB; Le Borgne et al. (2003, Cat. III/232)
      E = ELODIE; Prugniel & Soubiran (2004, Cat. III/218)
      I = INDO-US; Valdes et al. (2004, Cat. J/ApJS/152/251)
Note (2): Ca II triplet stellar library at
     http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/ellipt/CATRIPLET.html


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(End)                                      Patricia Vannier [CDS]    15-May-2007