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arXiv 1712.02405astro-ph.SR
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巨星核心氦燃烧的光球诊断

Photospheric diagnostics of core helium burning in giant stars

Keith Hawkins, Yuan-Sen Ting, Hans-Walter Rix

摘要:

核心燃烧氦的原生红团(RC)星是演化的红巨星,是非常好的标准烛光。因此,这些恒星通常用于绘制银河系或确定与其他星系的距离。然而,将RC星与其演化程度较低的前体,即红巨星分支(RGB)星区分开来仍然是一个困难的挑战,并被认为是星震学的领域。在这项工作中,我们使用了1,676颗RGB和RC星的样本,这些恒星具有来自APOGEE巡天的单历元红外光谱和星震参数和分类,以表明光谱本身可以用于(1)预测星震参数,精度足够高,以(2)区分核心氦燃烧的RC和其他污染小于2%的巨星。这不仅可以从光谱测量中选择大量的标准烛光,而且还可以消除红巨星混合和质量损失的恒星演化研究的主要障碍之一。

英文摘要:

Core helium burning primary red clump (RC) stars are evolved red giant stars which are excellent standard candles. As such, these stars are routinely used to map the Milky Way or determine the distance to other galaxies among other things. However distinguishing RC stars from their less evolved precursors, namely red giant branch (RGB) stars, is still a difficult challenge and has been deemed the domain of asteroseismology. In this work, we use a sample of 1,676 RGB and RC stars which have both single epoch infrared spectra from the APOGEE survey and asteroseismic parameters and classification to show that the spectra alone can be used to (1) predict asteroseismic parameters with precision high enough to (2) distinguish core helium burning RC from other giant stars with less than 2% contamination. This will not only allow for a clean selection of a large number of standard candles across our own and other galaxies from spectroscopic surveys, but also will remove one of the primary roadblocks for stellar evolution studies of mixing and mass loss in red giant stars.

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