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对流带深度对恒星丰度的敏感性:来自星震学的绝对恒星丰度尺度

The Sensitivity of Convection Zone Depth to Stellar Abundances: An Absolute Stellar Abundance Scale from Asteroseismology

Jennifer L. van Saders, Marc H. Pinsonneault

摘要:

对流区的底部是类太阳振荡器的星震频谱中的声学干扰源,使人们能够精确测量该特征的声学深度。我们研究的对流区的深度的质量,恒星丰度,和输入物理的敏感性,特别是,使用的测量的声学深度的CZ作为一个独立的大气,绝对测量恒星金属丰度。我们发现,对于低质量恒星的主序与$0.4 M_{\odot} \le M \le 1.6 M_{\odot}$,声学深度对流区的底部,归一化的声学深度的中心的恒星,$τ_{cz,n}$,是一个强大的函数的质量,并在0.5-1%每0.1 dex水平在[Z/X],因此也是一个敏感的探针的组成。我们估计了恒星模型中的理论不确定性,并表明,结合合理的观测不确定性,我们可以预期测量的金属丰度在0.15 - 0.3 dex的太阳类恒星。我们讨论了这项工作的应用旋转混合,特别是在所观察到的中F星李浸的上下文中,和distguishing不同的重元素的混合物之间。

英文摘要:

The base of the convection zone is a source of acoustic glitches in the asteroseismic frequency spectra of solar-like oscillators, allowing one to precisely measure the acoustic depth to the feature. We examine the sensitivity of the depth of the convection zone to mass, stellar abundances, and input physics, and in particular, the use of a measurement of the acoustic depth to the CZ as an atmosphere-independent, absolute measure of stellar metallicities. We find that for low mass stars on the main sequence with $0.4 M_{\odot} \le M \le 1.6 M_{\odot}$, the acoustic depth to the base of the convection zone, normalized by the acoustic depth to the center of the star, $τ_{cz,n}$, is both a strong function of mass, and varies at the 0.5-1% per 0.1 dex level in [Z/X], and is therefore also a sensitive probe of the composition. We estimate the theoretical uncertainties in the stellar models, and show that combined with reasonable observational uncertainties, we can expect measure the the metallicity to within 0.15 - 0.3 dex for solar-like stars. We discuss the applications of this work to rotational mixing, particularly in the context of the observed mid F star Li dip, and to distguishing between different mixtures of heavy elements.

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