Stars of HETDEX. I. RVels & metal-poor stars

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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an unbiased, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey, designed to measure the expansion history of the universe through low-resolution (R~750) spectra of Ly{alpha} emitters. In its search for these galaxies, HETDEX will also observe a few times 105 stars. In this paper, we present the first stellar value-added catalog within the internal second data release of the HETDEX Survey (HDR2). The new catalog contains 120,571 low-resolution spectra for 98,736 unique stars between 10<G=16) stars, they will be complementary to Gaia. Using t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE), we also demonstrate that the HETDEX spectra can be used to determine a star's Teff, and log g and its [Fe/H]. With the tSNE projection of the FGK-type stars with HETDEX spectra we also identify 416 new candidate metal-poor ([Fe/H]{<}-1dex) stars for future study. These encouraging results illustrate the utility of future low-resolution stellar spectroscopic surveys.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.19110108
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/911/108
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Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/911/108
Provenance
Creator Hawkins K.; Zeimann G.; Sneden C.; Mentuch Cooper E.; Gebhardt K.,Bond H.E.; Carrillo A.; Casey C.M.; Castanheira B.G.; Ciardullo R.,Davis D.; Farrow D.J.; Finkelstein S.L.; Hill G.J.; Kelz A.; Liu C.,Shetrone M.; Schneider D.P.; Starkenburg E.; Steinmetz M.; Wheeler J.C.,The HETDEX Collaboration
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2022
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Exoplanet Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy