Metallicities of 20 Million Giant Stars Based on Gaia XP spectra
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| author | Yang, Lin Yuan, Haibo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Ruoyi Beers, Timothy C. Xiao, Kai Xu, Shuai Huang, Yang Xiang, Maosheng Zhang, Meng Zhang, Jinming |
| author_facet | Yang, Lin Yuan, Haibo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Ruoyi Beers, Timothy C. Xiao, Kai Xu, Shuai Huang, Yang Xiang, Maosheng Zhang, Meng Zhang, Jinming |
| contents | We design an uncertainty-aware cost-sensitive neural network (UA-CSNet) to estimate metallicities from dereddened and corrected Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra for giant stars. This method accounts for both stochastic errors in the input spectra and the imbalanced density distribution in [Fe/H] values. With a specialized architecture and training strategy, the UA-CSNet improves the precision of the predicted metallicities, especially for very metal-poor (VMP; $\rm [Fe/H] \leq -2.0$) stars. With the PASTEL catalog as the training sample, our model can estimate metallicities down to $\rm [Fe/H] \sim -4$. We compare our estimates with a number of external catalogs and conduct tests using star clusters, finding overall good agreement. We also confirm that our estimates for VMP stars are unaffected by carbon enhancement. Applying the UA-CSNet, we obtain reliable and precise metallicity estimates for approximately 20 million giant stars, including 360,000 VMP stars and 50,000 extremely metal-poor (EMP; $\rm [Fe/H] \leq -3.0$) stars. The resulting catalog is publicly available at https://doi.org/10.12149/101604. This work highlights the potential of low-resolution spectra for metallicity estimation and provides a valuable dataset for studying the formation and chemo-dynamical evolution of our Galaxy. |
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| spellingShingle | Metallicities of 20 Million Giant Stars Based on Gaia XP spectra Yang, Lin Yuan, Haibo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Ruoyi Beers, Timothy C. Xiao, Kai Xu, Shuai Huang, Yang Xiang, Maosheng Zhang, Meng Zhang, Jinming Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We design an uncertainty-aware cost-sensitive neural network (UA-CSNet) to estimate metallicities from dereddened and corrected Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra for giant stars. This method accounts for both stochastic errors in the input spectra and the imbalanced density distribution in [Fe/H] values. With a specialized architecture and training strategy, the UA-CSNet improves the precision of the predicted metallicities, especially for very metal-poor (VMP; $\rm [Fe/H] \leq -2.0$) stars. With the PASTEL catalog as the training sample, our model can estimate metallicities down to $\rm [Fe/H] \sim -4$. We compare our estimates with a number of external catalogs and conduct tests using star clusters, finding overall good agreement. We also confirm that our estimates for VMP stars are unaffected by carbon enhancement. Applying the UA-CSNet, we obtain reliable and precise metallicity estimates for approximately 20 million giant stars, including 360,000 VMP stars and 50,000 extremely metal-poor (EMP; $\rm [Fe/H] \leq -3.0$) stars. The resulting catalog is publicly available at https://doi.org/10.12149/101604. This work highlights the potential of low-resolution spectra for metallicity estimation and provides a valuable dataset for studying the formation and chemo-dynamical evolution of our Galaxy. |
| title | Metallicities of 20 Million Giant Stars Based on Gaia XP spectra |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05281 |