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Main Authors: Huang, Yang, Beers, Timothy C., Xiao, Kai, de Oliveira, C. Mendes, Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe, Schwarz, G. B. Oliveira, Lee, Young Sun, Hong, Jihye, Chen, Huiling, Zhang, Huawei, Limberg, Guilherme, Carvalho, Maiara S., Humire, P. K., Figueiredo, André Luiz, Dias, Bruno, Alvarez-Candal, Alvaro, Fonseca-Faria, Marcos, Kanaan, A., Ribeiro, T., Schoenell, W., Rossi, Silvia
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14087
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author Huang, Yang
Beers, Timothy C.
Xiao, Kai
de Oliveira, C. Mendes
Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe
Schwarz, G. B. Oliveira
Lee, Young Sun
Hong, Jihye
Chen, Huiling
Zhang, Huawei
Limberg, Guilherme
Carvalho, Maiara S.
Humire, P. K.
Figueiredo, André Luiz
Dias, Bruno
Alvarez-Candal, Alvaro
Fonseca-Faria, Marcos
Kanaan, A.
Ribeiro, T.
Schoenell, W.
Rossi, Silvia
author_facet Huang, Yang
Beers, Timothy C.
Xiao, Kai
de Oliveira, C. Mendes
Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe
Schwarz, G. B. Oliveira
Lee, Young Sun
Hong, Jihye
Chen, Huiling
Zhang, Huawei
Limberg, Guilherme
Carvalho, Maiara S.
Humire, P. K.
Figueiredo, André Luiz
Dias, Bruno
Alvarez-Candal, Alvaro
Fonseca-Faria, Marcos
Kanaan, A.
Ribeiro, T.
Schoenell, W.
Rossi, Silvia
contents We combine narrow/medium-band filter photometry from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) DR4 with ultra broad-band filter photometry from Gaia EDR3 to derive fundamental stellar parameters ($T_{\rm eff}$, $\log g$, [Fe/H], ages) and elemental-abundance ratios ([C/Fe] and [$α$/Fe]) for 5.4 million stars in the Galaxy (4.9 million dwarfs and 0.5 million giants), as well as for over 0.7 million red giant stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). The precisions of the abundance estimates range from 0.05-0.10 dex for metallicity in the relatively metal-rich range ([Fe/H] $> -1.0$) to 0.10-0.30 dex in the metal-poor regime ([Fe/H] $<-1.0$), 0.10-0.20\,dex for [C/Fe], and 0.05 dex for [$α$/Fe]. The stellar parameters for LMC and SMC member stars are somewhat less precise than those from the S-PLUS main survey, primarily because of the effect of high reddening. The use of both metallicity- and carbon-sensitive filters provides unbiased measurements of both [Fe/H] and [C/Fe], of particular importance for very low-metallicity ([Fe/H] $< -2.0$) stars, where carbon enhancement can lead to systematically high estimates of [Fe/H] when only a single metallicity-sensitive filter is employed. Furthermore, multiple narrow-band filters enable metallicity estimates down to [Fe/H] $\sim -4.0$ with an accuracy of around 0.3 dex, exceeding the precision typically achieved by low/medium-resolution spectroscopy. This extensive photometric dataset, combined with the other three datasets in this series, will serve as a valuable legacy resource for Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds studies.
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spellingShingle S-PLUS: Beyond Spectroscopy IV. Stellar Parameters and Elemental-abundance Ratios for Six Million Stars from DR4 and First Results for the Magellanic Clouds
Huang, Yang
Beers, Timothy C.
Xiao, Kai
de Oliveira, C. Mendes
Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe
Schwarz, G. B. Oliveira
Lee, Young Sun
Hong, Jihye
Chen, Huiling
Zhang, Huawei
Limberg, Guilherme
Carvalho, Maiara S.
Humire, P. K.
Figueiredo, André Luiz
Dias, Bruno
Alvarez-Candal, Alvaro
Fonseca-Faria, Marcos
Kanaan, A.
Ribeiro, T.
Schoenell, W.
Rossi, Silvia
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We combine narrow/medium-band filter photometry from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) DR4 with ultra broad-band filter photometry from Gaia EDR3 to derive fundamental stellar parameters ($T_{\rm eff}$, $\log g$, [Fe/H], ages) and elemental-abundance ratios ([C/Fe] and [$α$/Fe]) for 5.4 million stars in the Galaxy (4.9 million dwarfs and 0.5 million giants), as well as for over 0.7 million red giant stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). The precisions of the abundance estimates range from 0.05-0.10 dex for metallicity in the relatively metal-rich range ([Fe/H] $> -1.0$) to 0.10-0.30 dex in the metal-poor regime ([Fe/H] $<-1.0$), 0.10-0.20\,dex for [C/Fe], and 0.05 dex for [$α$/Fe]. The stellar parameters for LMC and SMC member stars are somewhat less precise than those from the S-PLUS main survey, primarily because of the effect of high reddening. The use of both metallicity- and carbon-sensitive filters provides unbiased measurements of both [Fe/H] and [C/Fe], of particular importance for very low-metallicity ([Fe/H] $< -2.0$) stars, where carbon enhancement can lead to systematically high estimates of [Fe/H] when only a single metallicity-sensitive filter is employed. Furthermore, multiple narrow-band filters enable metallicity estimates down to [Fe/H] $\sim -4.0$ with an accuracy of around 0.3 dex, exceeding the precision typically achieved by low/medium-resolution spectroscopy. This extensive photometric dataset, combined with the other three datasets in this series, will serve as a valuable legacy resource for Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds studies.
title S-PLUS: Beyond Spectroscopy IV. Stellar Parameters and Elemental-abundance Ratios for Six Million Stars from DR4 and First Results for the Magellanic Clouds
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14087