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用Kepler和K2对类太阳振荡器的超奈奎斯特星震学--扩大红巨星分支底部的星震群

Super-Nyquist asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators with Kepler and K2 - expanding the asteroseismic cohort at the base of the red-giant branch

W. J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, G. R. Davies, T. L. Campante, R. Handberg, A. Miglio, S. Basu

摘要:

我们考虑了在长节奏(LC)开普勒光度学的“超奈奎斯特”制度中探测类太阳振荡的前景,即,高于约283 μHz的相关奈奎斯特频率。我们感兴趣的目标是位于红巨星分支底部的冷的、演化的亚巨星和恒星。这些恒星通常使用短节奏(SC)数据进行研究,因为相关的SC奈奎斯特频率远高于可检测到的振荡频率。然而,可用的SC目标时隙的数量是相当有限的。我们发现,来自名义任务的Kepler LC档案数据可用于主要振荡频率高达约500 μHz的目标的星震研究,即,大约是LC奈奎斯特频率的1.75倍。重新设计的开普勒任务K2的较短持续时间科学活动的频率检测阈值较低。最大阈值可能在大约400和450 μHz之间。以这种方式利用开普勒和K2 LC档案数据的潜力打开了一扇门,大大增加了亚巨星和低光度红巨星目标的数量适合asteroseismic分析,克服了SC插槽的数量少所带来的目标限制,我们估计,大约400个这样的目标现在可用于研究开普勒LC档案。对于K2来说,这个数字可能会高得多,因为它的每个活动都会有一个新的目标列表。

英文摘要:

We consider the prospects for detecting solar-like oscillations in the "super-Nyquist" regime of long-cadence (LC) Kepler photometry, i.e., above the associated Nyquist frequency of approximately 283 μHz. Targets of interest are cool, evolved subgiants and stars lying at the base of the red-giant branch. These stars would ordinarily be studied using the short-cadence (SC) data, since the associated SC Nyquist frequency lies well above the frequencies of the detectable oscillations. However, the number of available SC target slots is quite limited. This imposes a severe restriction on the size of the ensemble available for SC asteroseismic study.We find that archival Kepler LC data from the nominal Mission may be utilized for asteroseismic studies of targets whose dominant oscillation frequencies lie as high as approximately 500 μHz, i.e., about 1.75- times the LC Nyquist frequency. The frequency detection threshold for the shorter-duration science campaigns of the re-purposed Kepler Mission, K2, is lower. The maximum threshold will probably lie somewhere between approximately 400 and 450 μHz. The potential to exploit the archival Kepler and K2 LC data in this manner opens the door to increasing significantly the number of subgiant and low-luminosity red-giant targets amenable to asteroseismic analysis, overcoming target limitations imposed by the small number of SC slots.We estimate that around 400 such targets are now available for study in the Kepler LC archive. That number could potentially be a lot higher for K2, since there will be a new target list for each of its campaigns.

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