Effective temperature calibration from the InfraRed Flux Method in the Gaia system

L. Casagrande, J. Lin, A. D. Rains, F. Liu, S. Buder, J. Horner, M. Asplund, G. F. Lewis, S. L. Martell, T. Nordlander, D. Stello, Y. -S. Ting, R. A. Wittenmyer, J. Bland-Hawthorn, A. R. Casey, G. M. De Silva, V. D'Orazi, K. C. Freeman, M. R. Hayden, J. Kos, K. Lind, K. J. Schlesinger, S. Sharma, J. D. Simpson, D. B. Zucker, T. Zwitter

Published 2020-11-04Version 1

In order to accurately determine stellar properties, knowledge of the effective temperature of stars is vital. We implement Gaia and 2MASS photometry in the InfraRed Flux Method and apply it to stars across different evolutionary stages in the GALAH DR3 survey. We derive colour-effective temperature relations that take into account the effect of metallicity and surface gravity over the range 4000 to 8000 kelvin. The internal uncertainty of these calibrations is of order 40-80 kelvin depending on the colour combination used. Comparison against solar-twins, Gaia benchmark stars and the latest interferometric measurements validates the precision and accuracy of these calibrations from F to early M spectral types. We assess the impact of various sources of uncertainties and provide guidelines to use our relations.