A Gentle Introduction to SME

Piskunov, Nikolai

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06956-2_25

Nikolai Piskunov⁹

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This short overview of the Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME) package is meant as a summary of the capabilities, input data, steps and best practice in using SME for determination of fundamental parameters of stars. This overview is not an introduction to stellar spectroscopy and not even a reference to the SME. The tutorial by Ulrike Heiter distributed with the package comes much closer to a reference and the upcoming paper by Piskunov & Valenti (2014) will cover all the physics implemented in the library. Thus the main intention of this paper is to provide support to a starting SME user, outline the restrictions of the spectral synthesis approach and help bringing expectations in match with reality.

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“Restoring” and “saving” refer to the idl restore and save procedures.
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http://kurucz.harvard.edu/grids.html

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute, Wrocław, Poland
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Astrophysics Group, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Barry Smalley
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
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Piskunov, N. (2014). A Gentle Introduction to SME. In: Niemczura, E., Smalley, B., Pych, W. (eds) Determination of Atmospheric Parameters of B-, A-, F- and G-Type Stars. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06956-2_25

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