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Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars (SPOCS) I. 1040 F, G, and K Dwarfs from Keck, Lick, and AAT Planet Search Programs

This catalog is an online version of Tables 8 and 9 of: Valenti & Fischer, 2005, ApJS 159, 141 and contains stellar properties including effective temperature, log g, and abundances.



Terms of Usage: The following catalog of stellar parameters is the property of its authors listed above. The data in the catalog may be used freely for all scientific purposes; however, upon usage, please acknowledge the use of the catalog with the following citation: Valenti & Fischer, 2005 ApJS 159, 141.


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Related papers:
  1. Planet Metallicity Correlation" 2005, Fischer & Valenti ApJ 622,1102.
  2. "Structure and Evolution of Nearby Stars with Planets II. Physical Properties of ~ 1000 Cool Stars from the SPOCS Catalog" 2006, Takeda, G., Ford, E., Sills, A., Rasio, F., Fischer, D., Valenti, J.
  3. "Silicon and Nickel Enrichment in Planet Host Stars: Observations and Implications for the Core Accretion Theory of Planet Formation" 2006, Robinson, S. E., Laughlin, G., Bodenheimer, P., Fischer, D. ApJ 643, 484
  4. "Metallicity, debris discs and planets" 2006, Greaves, J. S., Fischer, D. A., Wyatt, M. C. MNRAS, 366, 283
  5. "The N2K Consortium. IV. New Temperatures and Metallicities for More than 100,000 FGK Dwarfs" 2006, Ammons, S.M., Robinson, S. E., Strader, J., Laughlin, G., Fischer, D., Wolf, A., ApJ, 638, 1004
  6. "The N2K Consortium. V. Identifying Very Metal-rich Stars with Low- Resolution Spectra: Finding Planet-Search Targets" 2006, Robinson, S. E., Strader, J., Ammons, S. M., Laughlin, G., Fischer, D. A. ApJ 637, 1102
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You may download all of the SME Catalog data in the form of a text file.
Each row in the text file is a star, and each data field is seperated by a comma (a program such as Excel can interpret this file).