TY - JOUR
T1 - The GALAH+ survey
T2 - a new library of observed stellar spectra improves radial velocities and hints at motions within M67
AU - Zwitter, Tomaz
AU - Kos, Janez
AU - Buder, Sven
AU - Crossed Cotar, Klemen
AU - Asplund, Martin
AU - Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
AU - Casey, Andrew R.
AU - De Silva, Gayandhi M.
AU - D'orazi, Valentina
AU - Freeman, Ken C.
AU - Hayden, Michael R.
AU - Lewis, Geraint F.
AU - Lin, Jane
AU - Lind, Karin
AU - Martell, Sarah L.
AU - Schlesinger, Katharine J.
AU - Sharma, Sanjib
AU - Simpson, Jeffrey D.
AU - Stello, Dennis
AU - Zucker, Daniel B.
AU - Beeson, Kevin L.
AU - De Grijs, Richard
AU - Nordlander, Thomas
AU - Ting, Yuan Sen
AU - Traven, Gregor
AU - Vogrinčič, Rok
AU - Watson, Fred
AU - Wittenmyer, Rob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high-resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provides reduced spectra with new derivations of stellar parameters and abundances of 30 chemical elements for 584 015 dwarfs and giants, 88 per cent of them in the Gaia magnitude range 11 < G < 14. Here, we use these improved values of stellar parameters to build a library of observed spectra which is useful to study variations of individual spectral lines with stellar parameters. This and other improvements are used to derive radial velocities with uncertainties which are generally within 0.1 km s-1 or ∼25 per cent smaller than in the previous release. Median differences in radial velocities measured here and by the Gaia DR2 or APOGEE DR16 surveys are smaller than 30 m s-1, a larger offset is present only for Gaia measurements of giant stars. We identify 4483 stars with intrinsically variable velocities and 225 stars for which the velocity stays constant over ≥3 visits spanning more than a year. The combination of radial velocities from GALAH+ with distances and sky plane motions from Gaia enables studies of dynamics within streams and clusters. For example, we estimate that the open cluster M67 has a total mass of ∼3300 M⊙ and its outer parts seem to be expanding, though astrometry with a larger time-span than currently available from Gaia eDR3 is needed to judge if the latter result is real.
AB - GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high-resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provides reduced spectra with new derivations of stellar parameters and abundances of 30 chemical elements for 584 015 dwarfs and giants, 88 per cent of them in the Gaia magnitude range 11 < G < 14. Here, we use these improved values of stellar parameters to build a library of observed spectra which is useful to study variations of individual spectral lines with stellar parameters. This and other improvements are used to derive radial velocities with uncertainties which are generally within 0.1 km s-1 or ∼25 per cent smaller than in the previous release. Median differences in radial velocities measured here and by the Gaia DR2 or APOGEE DR16 surveys are smaller than 30 m s-1, a larger offset is present only for Gaia measurements of giant stars. We identify 4483 stars with intrinsically variable velocities and 225 stars for which the velocity stays constant over ≥3 visits spanning more than a year. The combination of radial velocities from GALAH+ with distances and sky plane motions from Gaia enables studies of dynamics within streams and clusters. For example, we estimate that the open cluster M67 has a total mass of ∼3300 M⊙ and its outer parts seem to be expanding, though astrometry with a larger time-span than currently available from Gaia eDR3 is needed to judge if the latter result is real.
KW - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
KW - methods: data analysis
KW - open clusters and associations: individual: M67
KW - stars: fundamental parameters
KW - stars: kinematics and dynamics
KW - surveys
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stab2673
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stab2673
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 508
SP - 4202
EP - 4215
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 3
ER -