A method for the simultaneous estimation of the fundamental atmospheric parameters using the photometric indices in the BVRI and JHK color systems

Abstract

This is the second paper in a series reporting a new method developed to estimate the fundamental atmospheric parameters of effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity simultaneously. In the first paper three parameters were estimated using only photometric indices in the uvby color system. Whereas, in this paper, we use BVRI and JHK color systems. Using the model atmosphere grids, all three parameter values were estimated with respect to both [(B–V):(V–R)] and [(B–V):(R–I)], as well as [(V–K):(H–K)] and [(J–K):(H–K)] pair indices. It was confirmed that (B–V) and (V–K) indices are good temperature indicators, but all color indices for the BVRI and JHK systems are very poor indicators of metallicity and surface gravity. This new method was applied to a number of field dwarfs and giants, and the results were compared with those from the uvby color system. We found that the JHK color system can compete with the uvby system only in the estimation of temperature.