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用星震法确定红巨星演化状态的一种新方法

A New Method for the Asteroseismic Determination of the Evolutionary State of Red-Giant Stars

Yvonne Elsworth, Saskia Hekker, Sarbani Basu, Guy Davies

摘要:

确定红巨星的年龄是恒星天体物理学中的一个关键问题。确定这一点的困难之一是要知道单个恒星的演化状态--也就是说,它们是否已经开始在核心燃烧氦?这就是本文的主题。天文地震数据提供了获得这一信息的途径。我们在这里提出的是一个高度自主的方式来确定从光变曲线的功率谱分析的进化状态。该方法是快速和有效的,可以提供大量的恒星的结果。它使用偶极模式振荡的结构,在红巨星中具有混合特性,以确定分类中使用的一些措施。它不要求任何给定模式的所有单独组件都单独表征。大约有6604颗红巨星被分类。其中3566颗被确定在红巨星分支上,2077颗是红团星,439颗是次团星。我们并没有特别确定低金属量的水平分支恒星。红团星和次团星的区别取决于氦燃烧最初开始的方式。我们讨论的方式,这些分类之间的边界设置可能会导致错误的分类在少数恒星。剩下的522颗恒星没有被分类,因为它们在偶极模式(所谓的压抑偶极模式)中缺乏足够的能量,或者因为参数中的值相互冲突。

英文摘要:

Determining the ages of red-giant stars is a key problem in stellar astrophysics. One of the difficulties in this determination is to know the evolutionary state of the individual stars -- i.e. have they started to burn Helium in their cores? That is the topic of this paper. Asteroseismic data provide a route to achieving this information. What we present here is an highly autonomous way of determining the evolutionary state from an analysis of the power spectrum of the light curve. The method is fast and efficient and can provide results for a large number of stars. It uses the structure of the dipole-mode oscillations, which have a mixed character in red-giant stars, to determine some measures that are used in the categorisation. It does not require that all the individual components of any given mode be separately characterised. Some 6604 red giant stars have been classified. Of these 3566 are determined to be on the red-giant branch, 2077 are red-clump and 439 are secondary-clump stars. We do not specifically identify the low metallicity, horizontal-branch stars. The difference between red-clump and secondary-clump stars is dependent on the manner in which Helium burning is first initiated. We discuss that the way the boundary between these classifications is set may lead to mis-categorisation in a small number of stars. The remaining 522 stars were not classified either because they lacked sufficient power in the dipole modes (so-called depressed dipole modes) or because of conflicting values in the parameters.

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