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The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey. I. Automated selection of DA white dwarfs | N. Christlieb
; L. Wisotzki
; D. Reimers
; D. Homeier
; D. Koester
; U. Heber
; | Date: |
24 Nov 2000 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Hamburger Sternwarte), D. Homeier and D. Koester (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik der Universitaet Kiel), U. Heber (Dr. Remeis Sternwarte, Bamberg | Abstract: | We describe automatic procedures for the selection of DA white dwarfs in the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey (HES). For this purpose, and the selection of other stellar objects (e.g., metal-poor stars and carbon stars), a flexible, robust algorithm for detection of stellar absorption and emission lines in the digital spectra of the HES was developed. Broad band (U-B, B-V) and narrow band (Strömgren c_1) colours can be derived directly from HES spectra, with precisions of sigma(U-B)=0.092mag; sigma(B-V)=0.095mag; sigma(c_1)=0.15mag. We describe simulation techniques that allow to convert model or slit spectra to HES spectra. These simulated objective-prism spectra are used to determine quantitative selection criteria, and for the study of selection functions. We present an atlas of simulated HES spectra of DA and DB white dwarfs. Our current selection algorithm is tuned to yield maximum efficiency of the candidate sample (minimum contamination with non-DAs). DA candidates are selected in the B-V versus U-B and c_1 versus W_lambda(Hbeta+Hgamma+Hdelta) parameter spaces. The contamination of the resulting sample with hot subdwarfs is expected to be as low as ~8%, while there is essentially no contamination with main sequence or horizontal branch stars. We estimate that with the present set of criteria, ~80% of DAs present in the HES database are recovered. A yet higher degree of internal completeness could be reached at the expense of higher contamination. However, the external completeness is limited by additional losses caused by proper motion effects and the epoch differences between direct and spectral plates used in the HES. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0011453 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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