Issue |
A&A
Volume 511, February 2010
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Article Number | A46 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913266 | |
Published online | 05 March 2010 |
Determining global parameters of the oscillations of solar-like stars
1
Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DSM – CNRS – Université Paris Diderot – IRFU/SAp, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France e-mail: savita.mathur@cea.fr
2
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560034, India
3
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
4
Universidad de La Laguna, Dpto de Astrofísica, 38206 Tenerife, Spain
5
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
6
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31400 Toulouse, France
7
Danish AsteroSeismology Centre (DASC), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
8
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Received:
8
September
2009
Accepted:
15
December
2009
Context. Helioseismology has enabled us to better understand the solar interior, while also allowing us to better constrain solar models. But now is a tremendous epoch for asteroseismology as space missions dedicated to studying stellar oscillations have been launched within the last years (MOST and CoRoT). CoRoT has already proved valuable results for many types of stars, while Kepler, which was launched in March 2009, will provide us with a huge number of seismic data very soon. This is an opportunity to better constrain stellar models and to finally understand stellar structure and evolution.
Aims. The goal of this research work is to estimate the global parameters of any solar-like oscillating target in an automatic manner. We want to determine the global parameters of the acoustic modes (large separation, range of excited pressure modes, maximum amplitude, and its corresponding frequency), retrieve the surface rotation period of the star and use these results to estimate the global parameters of the star (radius and mass).
Methods. To prepare for the arrival and the analysis of hundreds of solar-like oscillating stars, we have developed a robust and automatic pipeline, which was partially adapted from helioseismic methods. The pipeline consists of data analysis techniques, such as Fast Fourier Transform, wavelets, autocorrelation, as well as the application of minimisation algorithms for stellar-modelling.
Results. We apply our pipeline to some simulated lightcurves from the asteroFLAG team and the Aarhus-asteroFLAG simulator, and obtain results that are consistent with the input data to the simulations. Our strategy gives correct results for stars with magnitudes below 11 with only a few 10% of bad determinations among the reliable results. We then apply the pipeline to the Sun and three CoRoT targets. In particular we determine the large separation and radius of the Sun, HD49933, HD181906, and HD181420.
Key words: methods: data analysis / stars: oscillations
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