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用CoRoT探测银盘中红巨星的星族

Probing populations of red giants in the galactic disk with CoRoT

A. Miglio, J. Montalban, F. Baudin, P. Eggenberger, A. Noels, S. Hekker, J. De Ridder, W. Weiss, A. Baglin

摘要:

在最初150天的观测运行中,CoRoT在近800颗红巨星中探测到类似太阳的振荡,为详细研究银河系红巨星的种群铺平了道路。我们调查所观察到的人口的信息,可以恢复所观察到的地震约束的分布:最大振荡功率的频率(nu_max)和大的频率分离(Deltanu)。我们建议使用nu_max和Deltanu的观测分布作为研究银河系红巨星的性质的工具,通过与基于合成恒星星族的模拟分布进行比较。我们可以清楚地识别出CoRoT观测到的大部分红巨星是红团星,即闪光后核心燃烧的He星。nu_max和Deltanu的分布为我们提供了恒星半径和质量分布的途径,从而代表了对盘的年龄和恒星形成率以及红巨星分支期间质量损失率的最有希望的探测。CoRoT观测为银河系盘中人口最多的氦燃烧恒星提供了地震约束。这打开了一个新的入口,以探测红巨星的属性,再加上经典的观测,承诺扩展我们的知识,这些先进的阶段恒星演化,并添加相关的限制模型的复合恒星星族在银河系。

英文摘要:

The detection with CoRoT of solar-like oscillations in nearly 800 red giants in the first 150-days long observational run paves the way for detailed studies of populations of galactic-disk red giants. We investigate which information on the observed population can be recovered by the distribution of the observed seismic constraints: the frequency of maximum oscillation power (nu_max) and the large frequency separation (Deltanu). We propose to use the observed distribution of nu_max and of Deltanu as a tool for investigating the properties of galactic red-giant stars through comparison with simulated distributions based on synthetic stellar populations. We can clearly identify the bulk of the red giants observed by CoRoT as red-clump stars, i.e. post-flash core-He-burning stars. The distribution of nu_max and of Deltanu gives us access to the distribution of the stellar radius and mass, and thus represent a most promising probe of the age and star formation rate of the disk, and of the mass-loss rate during the red-giant branch. CoRoT observations are supplying seismic constraints for the most populated class of He-burning stars in the galactic disk. This opens a new access gate to probing the properties of red-giant stars that, coupled with classical observations, promises to extend our knowledge of these advanced phases of stellar evolution and to add relevant constraints to models of composite stellar populations in the Galaxy.

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