BOLOMETRIC FLUX ESTIMATION FOR COOL EVOLVED STARS

Estimation of bolometric fluxes (F-BOL) is an essential component of stellar effective temperature determination with optical and near-infrared interferometry. Reliable estimation of F-BOL simply from broadband K-band photometry data is a useful tool in those cases were contemporaneous and/or wide-range photometry is unavailable for a detailed spectral energy distribution (SED) fit, as was demonstrated in Dyck et al. Recalibrating the intrinsic F-BOL versus observed F-2.2 mu m relationship of that study with modern SED fitting routines, which incorporate the significantly non-blackbody, empirical spectral templates of the INGS spectral library (an update of the library in Pickles) and estimation of reddening, serves to greatly improve the accuracy and observational utility of this relationship. We find that F-BOL values predicted are roughly 11% less than the corresponding values predicted in Dyck et al., indicating the effects of SED absorption features across bolometric flux curves.