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The Milky Way Bulge Extratidal Star Survey: NGC 6569

  • Authors: Joanne Hughes, Andrea Kunder, Kevin Covey, Kathryn Devine, Kristen A. Larson, Carlos Campos, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Joseph E. McEwen, Gabriel I. Perren, Christian I. Johnson, Craig Horton, Luke Smith, Sarah Torset, Cynthia Luna, Matthew Kolmanovsky, Fiona Kovisto, Leander Villarta, Vy Vuong, Iulia T. Simion, Kyle Webster, Erika Silva, Catherine A. Pilachowski, R. Michael Rich, Justin A. Kader, Andreas J. Koch-Hansen, Meridith Joyce, Sean McAdam, Faith Benda

Joanne Hughes et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Comparisons between the calibration methods of obtaining [Fe/H] from the CaT lines (B. Dias & M. C. Parisi 2020, J18) with the SP_Ace code results. (a) A histogram of the J18 sample of 98/100 stars is shown in green, which were matched with BDBS photometry. For these 98 stars, using the luminosity correction in the i band, we find: [Fe/H]CaT = –0.84 ± 0.17 dex. (b) The 58 stars in the RV-selected sample (−25 > RV > − 65 km s−1) are shown as the black-line histogram (no fill), calibrated using B. Dias & M. C. Parisi (2020) method. For all objects: [Fe/H]DP = –0.91 ± 0.40 dex. Targets with 3500 < T(K) < 7500 were fitted with the SP_Ace code: [Fe/H]SP = –0.78 ± 0.20 dex. The dotted line is the Gaussian fit to the P23 data, presented in C. Crociati et al. (2023): [Fe/H]CaT = –0.90 ± 0.20 dex. (c) Comparing the two fits for the overlap between the samples (all stars are faint green and orange-filled circles). The red line is the 1:1 fit of the CaT method and the SP_Ace code, which fits the stars with both [Fe/H]DP and [Fe/H]SP which are limited to values between −0.5 and −1.1 dex (40 objects; brighter green and orange points).

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