Standard Objects For Astronomy
 
 
 
 
 
 

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3. Spectroscopy
Stellar Spectra Databases
A large collection of stellar spectral libraries	Includes some links from this page
The ELODIE archive	Many spectra obtained with the ELODIE spectrograph (R ~ 48000)
Archive of high-resolution spectral observations of bright stars at Ritter Observatory of the University of Toledo	>3000 spectra of 334 stars obtained in 1993-2002
A Digital Spectral Classification Atlas R.O.Gray	Atlas of stellar spectra at the 3.6 A / 2 pixel resolution
IRAS low resolution spectra (at CDS) The same database at Univ. of Calgary	5425 spectra from 8 to 22 microns
A new library of stellar optical spectra Silva & Cornell (1992)	72 spectra  from 3510 to 8930 Å at 11 Å resolution, classes O-M and luminosity classes I-V
Optical spectra of Praesepe and M67 stars Allen & Strom (1995)	107 spectra (R=1500) of Prasepe MS stars (F1-M4) from 5600 to 9000 Å
A library of stellar spectra Jacoby et al. (1984)	161 spectra from 3510 to 7427 Å classes O-M and luminosity classes I, III, V
An atlas of the infrared spectral region. I. The early type stars (O-G0) Andrillat et al. (1995)	76 spectra for O, B, A and F type stars between 8375 and 8770 Å
K-band spectra of F8-M7 standard stars Kleinmann et al. (1986)	26 stellar spectra from 2.0 to 2.5 microns
Medium-resolution spectra of normal stars in the K-band Wallace & Hinkle (1997)	115 spectra for O-M I-V stars
Near-infrared classification spectroscopy: H-band spectra of fundamental MK standards Meyer et al. (1998)	85 spectra for O5-M7 stars
Near-infrared classification spectroscopy: J-band spectra of fundamental MK standards Wallace et al. (2000)	88 spectra for O7-M6 stars
Spectral irradiance calibration in the infrared IV,VI,VII Cohen et al. (1995, 1996a, 1996b),and other papers)	stellar spectra from 3 to 35 microns
A Moderate-Resolution Spectral Atlas of Carbon Stars: R, J, N, CH, and Barium Stars Barnbaum et al. (1996)	39 spectra + 119 carbon star classification
A Spectral Atlas of Hot, Luminous Stars at 2 microns Hanson et al. (1996)	180 spectra
An atlas of stellar spectra between 2.00 and 2.45 microns Arnaud et al. (1989)	73 stars
A new version of the catalog of CH and related stars Bartkevicius (1996)	261 stars
High resolution spectroscopy over 8500-8750 A for GAIA. I. Mapping the MKK classification system. Munari & Tomasella (1999)	131 O4-M8  stars
STELIB: A library of stellar spectra at R~2000 Le Borgne et al. (2003)	249 stellar spectra from 3200 - 9500 Å
A library of H band stellar spectra for stellar population analysis purposes Dallier et al. (1996)	37 stellar spectra in the H-band
Spectrophotometric Standards
Optical spectrophotometric standards Oke (1990)	25 stars (7 to 16 mag.) from 3200 to 10200 Å
Spectrophotometric standards Massey et al. (1988)	25 stars (7 to 16 mag.) from 3200 to 8100 Å
KPNO spectrophotometric standards: extension to 1 micron Massey et al. (1990)	11 standards from 6600 to 10300 Å
Optical spectrophotometric standards Hamuy et al. (1992, 1994)	10 bright standards and 19 fainter (10 to 14 mag.) standards from 3300 to about 10300 Å
White Dwarf primary spectrophotometric standards Bohlin et al. (1995, 1996)	4 stars  from 10 Å to 3 microns
Faint spectrophotometric standard stars for large optical telescopes Filippenko & Greenstein	5 faint spectrophotometric standards between 3300 and 10,000 Å
HST Spectrophotometric Standards Bohlin et al. (1992)	23 stars based on IUE, optical spectra and the WD standards + 6 stars with IUE and model spectra
Southern spectrophotometric standards for large telescopes I, II Baldwin & Stone (1983, 1984)	spectra between 6056 and 10,400 Å
A series of faint spectrophotometric standard stars at +33 deg declination Hickson & Mulrooney (1998)	21 spectra (3500-9200 Å) for 15th magnitude stars
An atlas of HST photometric, spectrophotometric and polarimetric calibration object Turnshek et al. (1990)	with finding charts
Secondary spectrophotometric standards Glushneva et al. (1992)	238 secondary standard stars in the range 3200-7600 Å with a 50 Å resolution + energy distribution for 99 stars between 6000-10800 Å
Spectrophotometric standards Biryukov et al. (1998)	81 A0-G2 standard stars of 7-8 mag. in the range 3400-7500 Å with a 50 Å resolution
MK  Spectral classification
13th General Catalogue of MK spectral classification Buscombe	MK spectral types and UBV photometry
The revised catalog of MK spectral types for the cooler stars Keenan & Newsom	spectral types for stars later than GO
Radial Velocity
Observations of solar-type IAU radial velocity standards Mazeh, Lattam, Stefanik (1996)	20  F6-G8 stars
Spectral synthesis
POLLUX - Database of Stellar Spectra	Synthetic spectra database at Monpellier, France
SPECTRUM - A Stellar Spectrum Synthesis Program	A code by R.O.Gray
Synthetic Spectra of B-type Main-Sequence Stars from 3000 to 10000 A	Interactive tool for spectral line identification by Ch.Gummersbach & A.Kaufer
High resolution spectroscopy over 8500-8750 A for GAIA. II. A library of synthetic spectra for Teff < 7500 K. Munari & Castelli (2000)	254 synthetic spectra with a resolving power of 20000
High resolution spectroscopy over 8500-8750 A for GAIA. III. A library of synthetic spectra for 7750 K < Teff < 50000 K. Castelli  & Munari (2001)	698 synthetic spectra with a resolving power of 20000

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