SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATIONA Stellar Spectral Flux Library, 1150 25000 A (A.J. Pickles, PASP 110, 863,...

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SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION

The standard correlations withspectral class

http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/people/pacrowther/spectral_classification.html

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Electronic low-res spectral library

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/pickles/AJP/hilib.html

Broad-band photometry and temperatures:dwarf stars (V:)

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Dwarf stars (V:)

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Giant stars (III:)

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Blue stragglers inglobular clusters

NGC 288(Kaluzny 1996)

Common distancemakes identificationeasy

MS

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MS turnoff

Identifying field BMP stars:Galactic disk star color-color relation

Empirical relations:

Hot edge of metal-poormain sequence

[Fe/H] ~ -1

[Fe/H] ~ 0

Preston et al. 1994

Points are the B8-F0stars from the BrightStar Catalog

Identifying field BMP stars:stars from the HK halo-star survey

Preston et al. 1994

Pop I MS

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Also thedomain ofPop II HBstars ofsimilar B-V

“HK” Survey: Beers et al. 1985, 1992