Star Classification Possibilities with the Gaia Spectrophotometers. III. The Classification Accuracy with Decontaminated BP/RP Spectra

Abstract

A medium-band 12-color photometric system, based on the decontaminated Gaia BP/RP spectra, has been proposed in our Paper II. Here we analyze a possibility to apply some versions of this system for the determination of temperatures and gravities of stars both in the absence and the presence of interstellar reddening. The possibility to supplement this system with the broad BP and RP passbands is verified. We conclude that the system gives an acceptable accuracy of temperatures and luminosities if the accuracy of color indices is 0.02 mag or better and if the parallaxes of stars are known.

Keywords

• stars
• fundamental parameters classification
• colors
• spectral types
• temperatures
• gravities
• luminosities space vehicles
• gaia