• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/202140863
• Corpus ID: 244103007

The SAPP pipeline for the determination of stellar abundances and atmospheric parameters of stars in the core program of the PLATO mission

@article{Gent2021TheSP,
  title={The SAPP pipeline for the determination of stellar abundances and atmospheric parameters of stars in the core program of the PLATO mission},
  author={Matthew Raymond Gent and Maria Bergemann and Aldo Serenelli and Luca Casagrande and Jeffrey M. Gerber and Ulrike Heiter and Mikhail Kovalev and Thierry Morel and Nicolas Nardetto and Vardan Adibekyan and V{\'i}ctor Silva Aguirre and Martin Asplund and K. Belkacem and Carlos del Burgo and Lionel Bigot and Andrea Chiavassa and Luisa Fernanda Rodr'iguez D'iaz and Marie Jo Goupil and Jonay I. Gonz'alez Hern'andez and Denis Mourard and Thibault Merle and Szabolcs M'esz'aros and Douglas J. Marshall and R-M. Ouazzani and Bertrand Plez and Daniel R. Reese and Regner Trampedach and Maria Tsantaki},
  journal={Astronomy \& Astrophysics},
  year={2021}
}

• Matthew Raymond Gent, M. Bergemann, +25 authors M. Tsantaki
• Published 12 November 2021
• Physics
• Astronomy & Astrophysics

We introduce the SAPP (Stellar Abundances and atmospheric Parameters Pipeline), the prototype of the code that will be used to determine parameters of stars observed within the core program of the PLATO space mission. The pipeline is based on the Bayesian inference and provides effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, chemical abundances, and luminosity. The code in its more general version has a much wider range of potential applications. It can also provide masses, ages, and radii of stars and can be used with stellar types not targeted by the PLATO core program, such as red giants. We validate the code on a set of 27 benchmark stars that includes 19 FGK-type dwarfs, 6 GK-type subgiants, and 2 red giants. Our results suggest that combining various observables is the optimal approach, as this allows the degeneracies between different parameters to be broken and yields more accurate values of stellar parameters and more realistic uncertainties. For the PLATO core sample, we obtain a typical uncertainty of 27 (syst.)± 37 (stat.) K for Teff , 0.00± 0.01 dex for log g, 0.02± 0.02 dex for metallicity [Fe/H], −0.01± 0.03 R for radii, −0.01± 0.05 M for stellar masses, and −0.14 ± 0.63 Gyr for ages. We also show that the best results are obtained by combining the νmax scaling relation with stellar spectra. This resolves the notorious problem of degeneracies, which is particularly important for F-type stars.