C. Soubiran 1, D. Katz 2, R. Cayrel 2
Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplements (in press)
A library of 211 echelle spectra taken with ELODIE at the Observatoire de
Haute-Provence is presented. It provides a
set of spectroscopic standards covering the full range of gravities and metallicities in
the effective temperature interval [4000 K, 6300 K].
The spectra are straightened, wavelength calibrated, cleaned of cosmic
ray hits, bad pixels and telluric lines. They
cover the spectral range
[440 nm, 680 nm] with an instrumental resolution of 42000. For each star, basic
data were compiled from the Hipparcos catalogue and the Hipparcos Input Catalogue.
Radial
velocities with a precision better than 100
are given. Atmospheric parameters
(
,
, [Fe/H]) from the literature are discussed. Because of scattered determinations
in the bibliography, even for the most well-known stars,
these parameters were adjusted by an iterative process which takes account of
common or different spectral features between the standards, using our homogeneous set of spectra.
Revised values of effective temperature, gravity and metallicity are proposed. They are still consistent with
the literature, and also lead to the self-consistency of the library, in the sense that similar spectra
have similar atmospheric parameters. This adjustment was performed by using step by step
a method based on the least square comparison
of carefully prepared spectra, which was originally developed for the on-line estimation of
the atmospheric parameters of faint field stars ( companion paper in the main journal).
Keywords: Astronomical data bases : atlases - stars: abundances - stars: atmospheres - stars: fundamental parameters