Title: Atmospheric stellar parameters for large surveys using FASMA, a new spectral synthesis package,
Abstract: In the era of vast spectroscopic surveys focusing on Galactic stellar
populations, astronomers want to exploit the large quantity and good quality of
data to derive their atmospheric parameters without losing precision from
automatic procedures. In this work, we developed a new spectral package, FASMA,
to estimate the stellar atmospheric parameters (namely effective temperature,
surface gravity, and metallicity) in a fast and robust way. This method is
suitable for spectra of FGK-type stars in medium and high resolution. The
spectroscopic analysis is based on the spectral synthesis technique using the
radiative transfer code, MOOG. The line list is comprised of mainly iron lines
in the optical spectrum. The atomic data are calibrated after the Sun and
Arcturus. We use two comparison samples to test our method, i) a sample of 451
FGK-type dwarfs from the high resolution HARPS spectrograph, and ii) the
Gaia-ESO benchmark stars using both high and medium resolution spectra. We
explore biases in our method from the analysis of synthetic spectra covering
the parameter space of our interest. We show that our spectral package is able
to provide reliable results for a wide range of stellar parameters, different
rotational velocities, different instrumental resolutions, and for different
spectral regions of the VLT-GIRAFFE spectrographs, used among others for the
Gaia-ESO survey. FASMA estimates stellar parameters in less than 15 min for
high resolution and 3 min for medium resolution spectra. The complete package
is publicly available to the community.