- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A33
- Title:
- Radial velocity time series of HD 122563
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/625/A33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The nearby metal-poor giant HD122563 is an important astrophysical laboratory in which to test stellar atmospheric and interior physics. It is also a benchmark star for which to calibrate methods to apply to large scale surveys. Recently it has been remeasured using various methodologies given the new high precision instruments at our disposal. However, inconsistencies in the observations and models have been found. In order to better characterise this star using complementary techniques we have been measuring its radial velocities since 2016 using the Hertzsprung telescope (SONG network node) in order to detect oscillations. In this work we report the first detections of sun-like oscillations in this star, and to our knowledge, a detection in the most metal-poor giant to date. We applied the classical seismic scaling relation to derive a new surface gravity for HD122563 of logg=1.39+/-0.01dex. Reasonable constraints on the mass imposed by its PopII giant classification then yields a radius of 30.8+/-1.0R_{sun}_. By coupling this new radius with recent interferometric measurements we infer a distance to the star of 306+/-9pc. This result places it further away than was previously thought and is inconsistent with the Hipparcos parallax. Independent data from the Gaia mission corroborate the distance hypothesis (d_GDR2_=290+/-5pc), and thus the updated fundamental parameters. We confirm the validity of the classical seismic scaling relation for surface gravity in metal-poor and evolved star regimes. The remaining discrepancy of 0.04dex between logg_GDR2_ (=1.43+/-0.03) reduces to 0.02dex by applying corrections to the scaling relations based on the mean molecular weight and adiabatic exponent. The new constraints on the HR diagram (L_*v_=381+/-26L_{sun}_) significantly reduce the disagreement between the stellar parameters and evolution models, however, a discrepancy of the order of 150K still exists. Fine-tuned stellar evolution calculations show that this discrepancy can be reconciled by changing the mixing-length parameter by an amount (-0.35) that is in agreement with predictions from recent 3D simulations and empirical results. Asteroseismic measurements are continuing, and analysis of the full frequency data complemented by a distance estimate promises to bring important constraints on our understanding of this star and of the accurate calibration of the seismic scaling relations in this regime.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/858/L7
- Title:
- Red clump stars selected from LAMOST and APOGEE
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/858/L7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Core helium-burning red clump (RC) stars are excellent standard candles in the Milky Way. These stars may have more precise distance estimates from spectrophotometry than from Gaia parallaxes beyond 3kpc. However, RC stars have values of Teff and logg that are very similar to some red giant branch (RGB) stars. Especially for low-resolution spectroscopic studies where Teff, logg, and [Fe/H] can only be estimated with limited precision, separating RC stars from RGB through established methods can incur ~20% contamination. Recently, Hawkins+ (2018ApJ...853...20H) demonstrated that the additional information in single-epoch spectra, such as the C/N ratio, can be exploited to cleanly differentiate RC and RGB stars. In this second paper of the series, we establish a data-driven mapping from spectral flux space to independently determined asteroseismic parameters, the frequency and the period spacing. From this, we identify 210371 RC stars from the publicly available LAMOST DR3 and APOGEE DR14 data, with ~9% of contamination. We provide an RC sample of 92249 stars with a contamination of only ~3%, by restricting the combined analysis to LAMOST stars with S/N_pix_>=75. This demonstrates that high-signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), low-resolution spectra covering a broad wavelength range can identify RC samples at least as pristine as their high- resolution counterparts. As coming and ongoing surveys such as TESS, DESI, and LAMOST will continue to improve the overlapping training spectroscopic-asteroseismic sample, the method presented in this study provides an efficient and straightforward way to derive a vast yet pristine sample of RC stars to reveal the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/466/3344
- Title:
- Red-giant stars classification
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/466/3344
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Determining the ages of red-giant stars is a key problem in stellar astrophysics. One of the difficulties in this determination is to know the evolutionary state of the individual stars - i.e. have they started to burn Helium in their cores? That is the topic of this paper. Asteroseismic data provide a route to achieving this information. What we present here is a highly autonomous way of determining the evolutionary state from an analysis of the power spectrum of the light curve. The method is fast and efficient and can provide results for a large number of stars. It uses the structure of the dipole-mode oscillations, which have a mixed character in red-giant stars, to determine some measures that are used in the categorization. It does not require that all the individual components of any given mode be separately characterized. Some 6604 red-giant stars have been classified. Of these, 3566 are determined to be on the red-giant branch, 2077 are red-clump and 439 are secondary-clump stars. We do not specifically identify the low-metallicity, horizontal-branch stars. The difference between red-clump and secondary-clump stars is dependent on the manner in which Helium burning is first initiated. We discuss that the way the boundary between these classifications is set may lead to mis-categorization in a small number of stars. The remaining 522 stars were not classified either because they lacked sufficient power in the dipole modes (so-called depressed dipole modes) or because of conflicting values in the parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/888/34
- Title:
- Robo-AO Kepler asteroseismic survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/888/34
- Date:
- 25 Oct 2021 10:08:41
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Kepler Space Telescope observed over 15000 stars for asteroseismic studies. Of these, 75% of dwarfs (and 8% of giants) were found to show anomalous behavior, such as suppressed oscillations (low amplitude) or no oscillations at all. The lack of solar-like oscillations may be a consequence of multiplicity, due to physical interactions with spectroscopic companions or due to the dilution of oscillation amplitudes from "wide" (AO detected; visual) or spectroscopic companions introducing contaminating flux. We present a search for stellar companions to 327 of the Kepler asteroseismic sample, which were expected to display solar-like oscillations. We used direct imaging with Robo-AO, which can resolve secondary sources at ~0.15", and followed up detected companions with Keck AO. Directly imaged companion systems with both separations of <=0.5" and amplitude dilutions >10% all have anomalous primaries, suggesting these oscillation signals are diluted by a sufficient amount of excess flux. We also used the high-resolution spectrometer ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope to search for spectroscopic binaries. We find tentative evidence for a higher fraction of spectroscopic binaries with high radial velocity scatter in anomalous systems, which would be consistent with previous results suggesting that oscillations are suppressed by tidal interactions in close eclipsing binaries.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/616/A24
- Title:
- Rotation in RGBs from Kepler asteroseismology
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/616/A24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Asteroseismology allows us to probe stellar interiors. In the case of red giant stars, conditions in the stellar interior are such as to allow for the existence of mixed modes, consisting in a coupling between gravity waves in the radiative interior and pressure waves in the convective envelope. Mixed modes can thus be used to probe the physical conditions in red giant cores. However, we still need to identify the physical mechanisms that transport angular momentum inside red giants, leading to the slow-down observed for red giant core rotation. Thus large-scale measurements of red giant core rotation are of prime importance to obtain tighter constraints on the efficiency of the internal angular momentum transport, and to study how this efficiency changes with stellar parameters. This work aims at identifying the components of the rotational multiplets for dipole mixed modes in a large number of red giant oscillation spectra observed by Kepler. Such identification provides us with a direct measurement of the red giant mean core rotation. We compute stretched spectra that mimic the regular pattern of pure dipole gravity modes. Mixed modes with the same azimuthal order are expected to be almost equally spaced in stretched period, with a spacing equal to the pure dipole gravity mode period spacing. The departure from this regular pattern allows us to disentangle the various rotational components and therefore to determine the mean core rotation rates of red giants. We automatically identify the rotational multiplet components of 1183 stars on the red giant branch with a success rate of 69 per cent with respect to our initial sample. As no information on the internal rotation can be deduced for stars seen pole-on, we obtain mean core rotation measurements for 875 red giant branch stars. This large sample includes stars with a mass as large as 2.5 solar masses, allowing us to test the dependence of the core slow-down rate on the stellar mass. Disentangling rotational splittings from mixed modes is now possible in an automated way for stars on the red giant branch, even for the most complicated cases, where the rotational splittings exceed half the mixed-mode spacing. This work on a large sample allows us to refine previous measurements of the evolution of the mean core rotation on the red giant branch. Rather than a slight slow-down, our results suggest rotation is constant along the red giant branch, with values independent of the mass.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/650/A115
- Title:
- Seismic global parameters of 2103 KIC
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/650/A115
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler opened up a new opportunity for better understanding stellar evolution by probing stellar interiors with unrivalled high-precision photometric data. Kepler has observed stellar oscillation for four years, which gave access to excellent frequency resolution that enables deciphering the oscillation spectrum of evolved red giant branch and asymptotic giant branch stars. The internal structure of stars in the upper parts of the red and asymptotic giant branches is poorly constrained, which makes the distinction between red and asymptotic giants difficult. We perform a thorough seismic analysis to address the physical conditions inside these stars and to distinguish them. We took advantage of what we have learnt from less evolved stars. We studied the oscillation mode properties of ~2000 evolved giants in a model described by the asymptotic pressure-mode pattern of red giants, which includes the signature of the helium second-ionisation zone. Mode identification was performed with a maximum cross-correlation method. Then, the modes were fitted with Lorentzian functions following a maximum likelihood estimator technique. We derive a large set of seismic parameters of evolved red and asymptotic giants. We extracted the mode properties up to the degree l=3 and investigated their dependence on stellar mass, metallicity, and evolutionary status. We identify a clear difference in the signature of the helium second-ionisation zone between red and asymptotic giants. We also detect a clear shortage of the energy of l=1 modes after the core-He-burning phase. Furthermore, we note that the mode damping observed on the asymptotic giant branch is similar to that observed on the red giant branch. We highlight that the signature of the helium second-ionisation zone varies with stellar evolution. This provides us with a physical basis for distinguishing red giant branch stars from asymptotic giants. Here, our investigation of stellar oscillations allows us to constrain the physical processes and the key events that occur during the advanced stages of stellar evolution, with emphasis on the ascent along the asymptotic giant branch, including the asymptotic giant branch bump.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/614/A40
- Title:
- Spectral significance for 15 delta Scuti
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/614/A40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is known that the observed distribution of frequencies in CoRoT and Kepler {delta} Scuti stars has no parallelism with any theoretical model. Pre-whitening is a widespread technique in the analysis of time series with gaps from pulsating stars located in the classical instability strip such as {delta} Scuti stars. However, some studies have pointed out that this technique might introduce biases in the results of the frequency analysis. This work aims at studying the biases that can result from pre-whitening in asteroseismology. The results will depend on the intrinsic range and distribution of frequencies of the stars. The periodic nature of the gaps in CoRoT observations, just in the range of the pulsational frequency content of the {delta} Scuti stars, is shown to be crucial to determine their oscillation frequencies, the first step to perform asteroseismology of these objects. Hence, here we focus on the impact of pre-whitening on the asteroseismic characterization of {delta} Scuti stars. We select a sample of 15 {delta} Scuti stars observed by the CoRoT satellite, for which ultra-high quality photometric data have been obtained by its seismic channel. In order to study the impact on the asteroseismic characterization of {delta} Scuti stars we perform the pre-whitening procedure on three datasets: gapped data, linearly interpolated data, and data with gaps interpolated using Autoregressive and Moving Average models (ARMA). The different results obtained show that at least in some cases pre-whitening is not an efficient procedure for the deconvolution of the spectral window. Therefore, in order to reduce the effect of the spectral window to the minimum it is necessary to interpolate with an algorithm that is aimed to preserve the original frequency content, and not only to perform a pre-whitening of the data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/24
- Title:
- Spectroscopy & Kepler data of the EB star V404 Lyr
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/24
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first high-resolution spectra for the eclipsing binary V404Lyr showing {gamma}Dor pulsations, which we use to study its absolute properties. By fitting models to the disentangling spectrum of the primary star, we found that it has an effective temperature of T_eff,1_=7330{+/-}150K and a rotational velocity of v_1_sini=148{+/-}18km/s. The simultaneous analysis of our double-lined radial velocities and the pulsation-subtracted Kepler data gives us accurate stellar and system parameters of V404Lyr. The masses, radii, and luminosities are M1=2.17{+/-}0.06M_{sun}_, R1=1.91{+/-}0.02R_{sun}_, and L1=9.4{+/-}0.8L_{sun}_ for the primary, and M2=1.42{+/-}0.04M_{sun}_, R2=1.79{+/-}0.02R_{sun}_, and L2=2.9{+/-}0.2L_{sun}_ for the secondary. The tertiary component orbiting the eclipsing pair has a mass of M_3b_=0.71{+/-}0.15M_{sun}_ in an orbit of P_3b_=642{+/-}3d, e_3b_=0.21{+/-}0.04, and a_3b_=509{+/-}2R_{sun}_. The third light of l_3_=4.1{+/-}0.2% could be partly attributable to the K-type circumbinary object. By applying a multiple frequency analysis to the eclipse-subtracted light residuals, we detected 45 frequencies with signal-to-noise amplitude ratios larger than 4.0. Identified as independent pulsation modes, seven frequencies (f_1_-f_6_, f_9_), their new pulsation constants, and the location in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram indicate that the pulsating primary is a {gamma}Dor-type variable star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/630/A106
- Title:
- Stellar pulsators in the eclipsing binaries
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/630/A106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Eclipsing binaries (EBs) are unique targets for measuring precise stellar properties and can be used to constrain stellar evolution models. In particular, it is possible to measure masses and radii of both components of a double-lined spectroscopic EB at the percent level. Since the advent of high-precision photometric space missions (MOST, CoRoT, Kepler, BRITE, TESS), the use of stellar pulsation properties to infer stellar interiors and dynamics constitutes a revolution for studies of low-mass stars. The Kepler mission has led to the discovery of thousands of classical pulsators such as {delta} Scuti and solar-like oscillators (main sequence and evolved), but also almost 3000 EBs with orbital periods shorter than 1100 days. We report the first systematic search for stellar pulsators in the entire Kepler EB catalog. The focus is mainly aimed at discovering {delta} Scuti, {gamma} Doradus, red giant, and tidally excited pulsators. We developed a data inspection tool (DIT) that automatically produces a series of plots from the Kepler light curves that allows us to visually identify whether stellar oscillations are present in a given time series. We applied the DIT to the whole Kepler EB database and identified 303 systems whose light curves display oscillations, including 163 new discoveries. A total of 149 stars are flagged as {delta} Scuti (100 from this paper), 115 as {gamma} Doradus (69 new), 85 as red giants (27 new), and 59 as tidally excited oscillators (29 new). There is some overlap among these groups, as some display several types of oscillations. Despite the likelihood that many of these systems are false positives, for example, when an EB light curve is blended with a pulsator, this catalog gathers a vast sample of systems that are valuable for a better understanding of stellar evolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A108
- Title:
- Sun velocities from GOLF instrument
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/617/A108
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The recent claims of g-mode detection have restarted the search for these potentially extremely important modes. These claims can be reassessed in view of the different data sets available from the SoHO instruments and ground-based instruments. We produce a new calibration of the GOLF data with a more consistent p-mode amplitude and a more consistent time shift correction compared to the time series used in the past. The calibration of 22 years of GOLF data is done with a simpler approach that uses only the predictive radial velocity of the SoHO spacecraft as a reference. Using p modes, we measure and correct the time shift between ground- and space-based instruments and the GOLF instrument. The p-mode velocity calibration is now consistent to within a few percent with other instruments. The remaining time shifts are within +/-5s for 99.8% of the time series.
