Affiliation

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Main category

Natural Sciences (Astrophysics and Astrononmy)

Abstract

From its surface proper.es it can be difficult to determine whether a red-giant star is in its Helium-core-burning phase or only burning Hydrogen in a shell around an inert Helium core. Stars in either of these stage can have similar effec.ve temperatures, radii and hence luminosi.es, i.e. they can be located at the same posi.on in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Bedding et al. (2011) showed that with asteroseismic informa.on from the stellar structure it is however possible to iden.fy the evolu.onary state of a red giant. For this technique one relies on the detec.on of the frequencies of mixed pressure-gravity modes. Resolving individual mixed modes is not always feasible in shorter .meseries data such as those of the K2 (Haas et al. 2014) and TESS (Ricker et al. 2015) missions. Here we present two methods that do not rely on the detec.on of the individual mixed modes. These methods have been applied together with the methods by Kallinger et al. (2012) and Mosser et al. (2014) to the APOKASC stars (Pinsonnault et al. in prep; Elsworth et al. in prep) to provide consolidated evolu.onary phases.

Conference

spacetk16

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https://science-media.org/poster/96