Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 261
This version created on 05 October 2006

Properties of Cool Stars in the HST Next-Generation Spectral Library


Sally Heap, Goddard Space Flight Center
Don Lindler, Sigma/Advanced Computer Concepts

The Next Generation Spectral Library (NGSL) comprises low-resolution
spectra of 380  stars over the wavelength range, 0.18 - 1.00  microns.
All the spectra were obtained by Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
(STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).  The program stars have
diverse metallicities ranging from [Fe/H]~ -2.5 to +0.5.  We have
carried out a custom reduction of these data and constructed a library
that will be made available through MAST at the STScI.  We have
estimated the stellar parameters though uvby photometry and have
compared them to parameters derived from spectroscopy.  We are now
making a critical comparison of our best-estimate parameters to
evolutionary models constructed by vandenBerg and colleagues.

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