Photometric sample of 2.6million red clump stars

Large pristine samples of red clump stars are highly sought after given that they are standard candles and give precise distances even at large distances. However, it is difficult to cleanly select red clumps stars because they can have the same Teff and logg as red giant branch stars. Recently, it was shown that the asteroseismic parameters, {DELTA}P and {DELTA}{nu}, which are used to accurately select red clump stars, can be derived from spectra using the change in the surface carbon to nitrogen ratio ([C/N]) caused by mixing during the red giant branch. This change in [C/N] can also impact the spectral energy distribution. In this study, we predict the {DELTA}P, {DELTA}{nu}, Teff and logg using 2MASS, AllWISE, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS data in order to select a clean sample of red clump stars. We achieve a contamination rate of ~20%, equivalent to what is achieved when selecting from Teff and logg derived from low resolution spectra. Finally, we present two red clump samples. One sample has a contamination rate of ~20% and ~405000 red clump stars. The other has a contamination of ~33% and ~2.6 million red clump stars which includes ~75000 stars at distances >10kpc. For |b|>30 degrees we find ~15000 stars with contamination rate of ~9%. The scientific potential of this catalog for studying the structure and formation history of the Galaxy is vast given that it includes millions of precise distances to stars in the inner bulge and distant halo where astrometric distances are imprecise.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/495/3087/catalog (Photometrically derived Teff, logg, {DELTA}P and {DELTA}{NU} for all giant stars along with distances for selected RC stars)

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/495/3087
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/495/3087
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/495/3087
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/495/3087
Provenance
Creator Lucey M.; Ting Y.-S.; Ramachandra N.S.; Hawkins K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2020
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics; Stellar Astronomy