Astro+: Design, construction, and scientific exploitation of a large-scale massive star spectroscopic database

Rübke, Klaus; Marco, Amparo; Negueruela, Ignacio; Herrero, Artemio; Simón-Díaz, Sergio; Tabernero, Hugo; Patrick, Lee
Bibliographical reference

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics XI

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2023
Number of authors
7
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
1
Refereed citations
0
Description
Massive stars condition the evolution of the interstellar medium by the amount of energy released during their lives and especially by their deaths as supernova explosions. The vast amounts of spectroscopic data for massive stars provided by previous and existing instruments on ground-based and space-based telescopes have already saturated our capability to process them by the use of human routines. As a consequence, there is a pressing need for machine-assisted tools to help handle incoming data. To this end, we present the development of a massive star spectroscopic multiwavelength interactive database designed for scientific research and a fully automatic stellar parameter determination tool. Here we show the preliminary results of the application of these tools to optical spectra of O-type stars.