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A Test of the Accuracy of low Dispersion Objective Prism: Spectral Classification of Late-Type Stars Using DDO Photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. J. Clariá
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Astronomía, Mérida, Venezuela
W. Osborn
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Astronomía, Mérida, Venezuela

Abstract

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A test has been made of the reliability of the multidimensional classification of late-type stars from low dispersion objective prism plates recently attempted by Stock and Wroblewski. Such classification at low dispersion is difficult due to the problem of separating the effects of luminosity from those of abnormal metal abundance. A sample of the stars classified by Stock and Wroblewski as metal weak (pec) and of those classified as luminous stars (class I) were observed using the DDO intermediate-band system. The photometry shows that the stars classified as pec are indeed population II giants, of low metal abundance ([Fe/H] < −1.0). The stars classified as I, however, were found in general not to be true supergiants but rather a mixture of various types of giants, such as CN strong stars, with spectral features that resemble, in one way or another, those of higher luminosity stars.

Type
Part III/Derivation of Abundances Through Photometric and Spectroscopic Methods
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1976