SPar: estimating stellar parameters from multi-band photometries with empirical stellar libraries

Abstract

Modern large-scale photometric surveys have provided us with multi-band photometries of billions of stars. Determining the stellar atmospheric parameters, such as the effective temperature (\teff) and metallicities (\feh), absolute magnitudes ($M_{G}$), distances ($d$) and reddening values (\ebr) is fundamental to study the stellar populations, structure, kinematics and chemistry of the Galaxy. This work constructed an empirical stellar library which maps the stellar parameters to multi-band photometries from a dataset with Gaia parallaxes, LAMOST atmospheric parameters, and optical to near-infrared photometry from several photometric surveys. Based on the stellar library, we developed a new algorithm, SPar (\textbf{S}tellar \textbf{P}arameters from multib\textbf{a}nd photomet\textbf{r}y), which fits the multi-band stellar photometries to derive the stellar parameters (\teff, \feh, $M_G$, $d$ and \ebr) of the individual stars. The algorithm is applied to the multi-band photometric measurements of a sample of stars selected from the SMSS survey, which have stellar parameters derived from the spectroscopic surveys. The stellar parameters derived from multi-band photometries by our algorithm are in good agreement with those from the spectroscopic surveys. The typical differences between our results and the literature values are 170\,K for \teff, 0.23\,dex for \feh, 0.13\,mag for $M_G$ and 0.05\,mag for \ebr. The algorithm proved to be robust and effective and will be applied to the data of future large-scale photometric surveys such as the Mephisto and CSST surveys.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, Accepted by The Astronomical Journal on 7/8/202