Astron. Astrophys. 346, 564-585 (1999)

Synthetic photometry from ATLAS9 models in the UBV Johnson system

Fiorella Castelli

CNR-Gruppo Nazionale Astronomia and Osservatorio Astronomico, Via G.Tiepolo 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy

Received 22 December 1998 / Accepted 18 March 1999

Abstract

Several grids of synthetic UBV color indices computed in the Johnson system and based on ATLAS9 atmospheric models are compared and discussed.

We present synthetic colors which differ from those computed by Kurucz (1995) only for the convective models and for a very small shift of the zero-points. We compare these colors, called C97, with colors computed by Kurucz (1993a), Kurucz (1995) (K95), Bessell et al. (1998) (BCP). The Buser & Kurucz (1992) (BK92) colors, derived from models different from ATLAS9, are also considered. -(U-B), -(B-V), and -BC_V relations are compared together and are compared with empirical relations from literature.

For convective stars ( 8750 K), differences related with the different synthetic grids based on the ATLAS9 models are not larger than 100 K for [M/H] = 0.0 and 200 K for [M/H] = -2.0.

All the K95, C97, and BCP grids give, in general, larger than those from the empirical -color relations. For dwarfs, at = 5000 K and for [M/H] = 0.0, from (U-B) is about 250 K, and from (B-V) is on the order of 200 K. For giants, computed and observed -(U-B) data agree well, while, for (B-V), the behaviour is similar to that for dwarfs. These results do not change in a significant way for different metallicities.

Computations performed for [M/H] = -2.0 have shown that, for dwarfs, the agreement with the observations improves when models computed for solar scaled abundances, but with elements enhanced by 0.4 dex and based on the new solar iron abundance log(N_Fe/N_tot) = -4.53 dex, are used.

The dependence of the color indices on T_eff, gravity, metallicity, and microturbulent velocity is investigated.

Key words: techniques: photometric stars: atmospheres stars: fundamental parameters

Send offprint requests to: F. Castelli

Correspondence to: castelli@ts.astro.it

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Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Synthetic colors and bolometric corrections
• 3. The UBV synthetic grids
• 4. Kurucz's UBV synthetic photometry (K95)
  • 4.1. The atmospheric models K93, K94, K95
  • 4.2. The passbands and zero-points
  • 4.3. The bolometric correction
• 5. Castelli UBV synthetic photometry (C97)
  • 5.1. The atmospheric models
  • 5.2. The passbands and zero-points
• 6. Bessell, Castelli & Plez UBV synthetic photometry (BCP)
  • 6.1. The passbands
  • 6.2. The zero-points
  • 6.3. Bolometric corrections
• 7. Comparison of color indices
  • 7.1. K95 and C97 color indices
  • 7.2. BCP and C97 color indices
  • 7.3. BCP and K95 color indices
  • 7.4. C97 and Buser & Kurucz (1992) (BK92) color indices
• 8. The dependence of the synthetic (U-B), (B-V) colors and bolometric correction on effective temperature, gravity, and metallicity
• 9. Empirical -color relations
  • 9.1. Comparison of empirical -color relations for cool stars
• 10. Comparison of computed and empirical -color relations
  • 10.1. -(U-B) relations
    • 10.1.1. 3500 K 9000 K
    • 10.1.2. 9000 K
  • 10.2. -(B-V) relations
    • 10.2.1. 3500 K 9000 K
    • 10.2.2. 9000 K
• 11. Computed and empirical -bolometric correction relations
• 12. The new models and the effect of abundance and microturbulent velocity on colors
• 13. The Sun
• 14. Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

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Online publication: May 21, 1999
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