Abstract
I present an overview of empirical stellar spectral libraries, their
uses, and (briefly) their history. I focus primarily on their utility
for understanding the stellar populations of composite stellar systems,
but I show examples of their use for topics ranging from the
determination of atmospheric parameters of stars outside the libraries
to calibration of stellar atmosphere models to stellar radial
velocities. I end by presenting the ``state of the art'' of available
stellar spectral libraries focused on stellar population synthesis and
what still needs to be done in the near future.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Astronomical Society of India Conference Series |
| Pages | 1- |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- stars: atmospheres
- galaxies: stellar content
- catalogues
- history and philosophy of astronomy