A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data
Hon M, Stello D, García RA, Mathur S, Sharma S, Colman IL, Bugnet LA. 2019. A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(4), 5616–5630.
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Hon, Marc;
Stello, Dennis;
García, Rafael A;
Mathur, Savita;
Sharma, Sanjib;
Colman, Isabel L;
Bugnet, Lisa AnnabelleISTA
Abstract
The recently published Kepler mission Data Release 25 (DR25) reported on ∼197 000 targets observed during the mission. Despite this, no wide search for red giants showing solar-like oscillations have been made across all stars observed in Kepler’s long-cadence mode. In this work, we perform this task using custom apertures on the Kepler pixel files and detect oscillations in 21 914 stars, representing the largest sample of solar-like oscillating stars to date. We measure their frequency at maximum power, νmax, down to νmax≃4μHz and obtain log (g) estimates with a typical uncertainty below 0.05 dex, which is superior to typical measurements from spectroscopy. Additionally, the νmax distribution of our detections show good agreement with results from a simulated model of the Milky Way, with a ratio of observed to predicted stars of 0.992 for stars with 10<νmax<270μHz. Among our red giant detections, we find 909 to be dwarf/subgiant stars whose flux signal is polluted by a neighbouring giant as a result of using larger photometric apertures than those used by the NASA Kepler science processing pipeline. We further find that only 293 of the polluting giants are known Kepler targets. The remainder comprises over 600 newly identified oscillating red giants, with many expected to belong to the Galactic halo, serendipitously falling within the Kepler pixel files of targeted stars.
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2019-06-01
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Oxford University Press
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Funding for this Discovery mission is provided by NASA’s Science mission Directorate. We thank the entire Kepler team without whom this investigation would not be possible. DS is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project number FT1400147). RAG acknowledges the support from CNES. SM acknowledges support from NASA grant NNX15AF13G, NSF grant AST-1411685, and the Ramon y Cajal fellowship number RYC-2015-17697. ILC acknowledges scholarship support from the University of Sydney. We would like to thank Nicholas Barbara and Timothy Bedding for providing us with a list of variable stars that helped to validate a number of detections in this study. We also thank the group at the University of Sydney for fruitful discussions. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Titan Xp GPU used for this research.
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5616-5630
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Hon M, Stello D, García RA, et al. A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2019;485(4):5616-5630. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz622
Hon, M., Stello, D., García, R. A., Mathur, S., Sharma, S., Colman, I. L., & Bugnet, L. A. (2019). A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz622
Hon, Marc, Dennis Stello, Rafael A García, Savita Mathur, Sanjib Sharma, Isabel L Colman, and Lisa Annabelle Bugnet. “A Search for Red Giant Solar-like Oscillations in All Kepler Data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Oxford University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz622.
M. Hon et al., “A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 485, no. 4. Oxford University Press, pp. 5616–5630, 2019.
Hon M, Stello D, García RA, Mathur S, Sharma S, Colman IL, Bugnet LA. 2019. A search for red giant solar-like oscillations in all Kepler data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(4), 5616–5630.
Hon, Marc, et al. “A Search for Red Giant Solar-like Oscillations in All Kepler Data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 485, no. 4, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 5616–30, doi:10.1093/mnras/stz622.
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