MILES: A Medium resolution INT Library of Empirical Spectra

By P. Sánchez-Blázquez, Reynier Peletier, J. Jiménez-Vicente, N. Cardiel, A. Cenarro, J. Falc'on-Barroso, J. Gorgas, S. Selam, A. Vazdekis. 2006

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A new stellar library developed for stellar population synthesis modeling is presented. The library consist of 985 stars spanning a large range in atmospheric parameters. The spectra were obtained at the 2.5m INT telescope and cover the range (cid:21)(cid:21) 3525–7500 ˚A at 2.3 ˚A (FWHM) spectral resolution. The spectral resolution, spectral type coverage, ﬂux calibration accuracy and number of stars represent a substantial improvement over previous libraries used in population synthesis models.

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Synthetic stellar photometry – I. General considerations and new transformations for broad-band systems (2014, background): “…optical spectrophotometry of cool metal-rich giants (e.g., the Next Generation Spectral Library – NGSL– Heap & Lindler 2010 and the Medium Resolution INT Library of Empirical Spectra –MILES– Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006) can be used to assess the reliability of synthetic spectra in this regime.”
OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY (2014, background): “…age gradients are negative but shallow among disk galaxies (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2014) and flat among early-types (e.g., Mehlert et al. 2003; Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; Kuntschner et al. 2010), although trends consistent with late-time growth are seen at larger radii, near 2 Re…”
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of early-type galaxies over a range in mass (2007, methodology): “For the stellar templates, we use synthetic stellar energy distributions from Vazdekis et al. (2007) based on the MILES stellar library (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006d).”
A CONTINUUM OF H- TO He-RICH TIDAL DISRUPTION CANDIDATES WITH A PREFERENCE FOR E+A GALAXIES (2014, methodology): “We fit the host spectra to stellar templates provided by the miles empirical stellar library (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; Vazdekis et al. 2010), using ppxf (Cappellari & Emsellem 2004) and gandalf (Sarzi et al. 2006).”
Three Hypervelocity White Dwarfs in Gaia DR2: Evidence for Dynamically Driven Double-degenerate Double-detonation Type Ia Supernovae (2018, methodology): “Radial velocities (RVs) were measured via crosscorrelation against the MILES library, comprising nearly 1000 stellar templates (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; Falcón-Barroso et al. 2011).”
UV-extended E-MILES stellar population models: young components in massive early-type galaxies (2016, methodology): “These SSP spectra were joined to those computed with MILES (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006) in the optical range, as well as with our models for redder wavelengths, all computed with the same code and prescriptions and employing empirical stellar libraries, i.e. IndoUS (Valdes et al. 2004), CAT…”
Stellar population gradients in galaxy discs from the CALIFA survey - The influence of bars (2014, methodology): “As templates, we use the stellar population models by V10 based on the MILES library (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006).”
Evolutionary stellar population synthesis with MILES – II. Scaled-solar and α-enhanced models (2015, methodology): “In fact, it is possible to obtain a good proxy for the [Mg/Fe] abundance, if appropriate indices are employed for the analysis (Vazdekis et al. 2001b, 2010; Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006c; Yamada et al. 2006; de la Rosa et al. 2007; Michielsen et al. 2008; La Barbera et al. 2013).”
CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs. I. Low-resolution spectroscopy with CAFOS (2015, neutral): “…2004; Boc05: Bochanski et al. 2005; Scho05: Scholz et al. 2005; Gray06: Gray et al. 2006; Mon06: Montagnier et al. 2006; Riaz06: Riaz et al. 2006; SB06: Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; Dae07: Daemgen et al. 2007; Eis07: Eisenbeiss et al. 2007; Reid07: Reid et al. 2007; BS08: Bender & Simon 2008;…”
MIUSCAT: extended MILES spectral coverage – I. Stellar population synthesis models (2012, methodology): “For the B−V colour this can be attributed to the very high flux-calibration quality of the MILES stellar spectra as was shown in Sánchez-Blázquez et al. (2006).”
Spectral models for solar-scaled and α-enhanced stellar populations (2007, methodology): “We built models 8 Based on the recent MILES library by Sánchez-Blázquez et al. (2006); Cenarro et al. (2007), covering the optical wavelength range. based on two other recent synthetic libraries (Martins et al. 2005; Munari et al. 2005, shown as a shaded region in Fig.”
New fully empirical calibrations of strong-line metallicity indicators in star forming galaxies (2016, methodology): “(0000) CAT library of spectral templates (Vazdekis et al. 2012; Ricciardelli et al. 2012), an extension of the previous MILES library (Falcón-Barroso et al. 2011; Cenarro et al. 2001; Vazdekis et al. 2010; Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006) in which both Indo-U.”
Stellar Population Inference with Prospector (2020, methodology): “Throughout these demonstrations with mock data we use the MIST isochrones (Choi et al. 2016) and the MILES spectral library (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006) within FSPS to construct both the mocks and the models with which they are fitted.”
Modelling and interpreting spectral energy distributions of galaxies with BEAGLE (2016, background): “Many spectral evolution models available in the literature (e.g. Pégase, Fioc & Rocca-Volmerange 1997; Le Borgne et al. 2004; GALAXEV, Bruzual & Charlot 2003; FSPS, Conroy et al. 2009; ; Vazdekis et al. 2010; MaStro, Maraston & Strömbäck 2011; Conroy & van Dokkum 2012a) rely on libraries of obser”
Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss-Hermite functions (2016, methodology): “…& Strömbäck 2011; Conroy & van Dokkum 2012); (ii) individual empirical (e.g. Cenarro et al. 2001; Prugniel & Soubiran 2001; Valdes et al. 2004; Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006) or synthetic (e.g. Coelho et al. 2005; Munari et al. 2005; Gustafsson et al. 2008) stars; (iii) principal components…”
The CALIFA survey across the Hubble sequence: Spatially resolved stellar population properties in galaxies (2015, methodology): “…Bruzual & Charlot (2003) models (Charlot & Bruzual 2007, private communication), replacing STELIB (Le Borgne et al. 2003) by a combination of the MILES (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; FalcónBarroso et al. 2011) and granada (Martins et al. 2005) spectral libraries (the same ones used in base GMe).”
The star formation history of CALIFA galaxies: Radial structures (2013, methodology): “(b) Base CB is an updated version of the Bruzual & Charlot (2003) models that replaces STELIB (Le Borgne et al. 2003) with a combination of the MILES (Sánchez-Blázquez et al. 2006; Falcón-Barroso et al. 2011) and granada (Martins et al. 2005) spectral libraries.”