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arXiv 1611.00540astro-ph.SR
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快速旋转的红巨星

Rapidly rotating red giants

Charlotte Gehan, Benoît Mosser, Eric Michel

摘要:

恒星振荡提供了恒星内部性质的地震信息。红巨星是感兴趣的目标,因为它们呈现混合模式,在对流包层中表现为压力模式,在辐射核心中表现为重力模式。因此,混合模式直接探测红巨星核心,特别是允许研究它们的平均核心旋转。CoRoT和开普勒卫星获得的高质量数据代表了一个前所未有的视角,可以获得数千个红巨星核心旋转的测量结果,以提高我们对恒星内部深处恒星物理学的理解。我们开发了一种自动化的方法来获得这样的核心旋转测量,并验证了红巨星分支上的恒星。在这项工作中,我们特别关注这种方法在具有快速核心旋转的红巨星中的具体应用。他们显示复杂的光谱,这是棘手的解开旋转分裂的混合模式的周期间隔。我们证明了基于模式交叉识别的方法是精确和有效的。核心平均自转的确定直接来自于对渐近周期间隔Δ τ 1和观测到旋转分量交叉的频率的精确测量。

英文摘要:

Stellar oscillations give seismic information on the internal properties of stars. Red giants are targets of interest since they present mixed modes, which behave as pressure modes in the convective envelope and as gravity modes in the radiative core. Mixed modes thus directly probe red giant cores, and allow in particular the study of their mean core rotation. The high-quality data obtained by CoRoT and Kepler satellites represent an unprecedented perspective to obtain thousands of measurements of red giant core rotation, in order to improve our understanding of stellar physics in deep stellar interiors. We developed an automated method to obtain such core rotation measurements and validated it for stars on the red giant branch. In this work, we particularly focus on the specific application of this method to red giants having a rapid core rotation. They show complex spectra where it is tricky to disentangle rotational splittings from mixed-mode period spacings. We demonstrate that the method based on the identification of mode crossings is precise and efficient. The determination of the mean core rotation directly derives from the precise measurement of the asymptotic period spacing ΔΠ1 and of the frequency at which the crossing of the rotational components is observed.

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