Stellar Atmospheric Parameters of M-type Stars from LAMOST DR8

Abstract

Abstract The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) Low Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LRS) provides massive spectroscopic data on M-type stars, and the derived stellar parameters could bring vital help to various studies. We adopt the ULySS package to perform χ 2 minimization with model spectra generated from the MILES interpolator and determine the stellar atmospheric parameters for the M-type stars from LAMOST LRS Data Release 8. Comparison with the stellar parameters from the APOGEE Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundance Pipeline (ASPCAP) suggests that most of our results have good consistency. For M dwarfs, we achieve dispersions better than 74 K, 0.19 dex, and 0.16 dex for T eff, log g , and [Fe/H], while for M giants, the internal uncertainties are 58 K, 0.32 dex, and 0.26 dex, respectively. Compared to ASPCAP we also find a systematic underestimation of ΔT eff = −176 K for M dwarfs and a systematic overestimation of Δ log g = 0.30 dex for M giants. However, such differences are less significant when we make a comparison with common stars from other literature, which indicates that systematic biases exist in the difference between ASPCAP and other measurements. A catalog of 763,136 spectra corresponding to 616,314 M-type stars with derived stellar parameters is presented. We determine the stellar parameters for stars with T eff higher than 2900 K, with log g from −0.24 dex to 5.9 dex. The typical precisions are 45 K, 0.25 dex, and 0.22 dex, for T eff, log g , and [Fe/H], respectively, which are estimated from duplicate observations of the same stars.