FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants
Bugnet LA, García RA, Davies GR, Mathur S, Corsaro E, Hall OJ, Rendle BM. 2018. FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 620, A38.
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Bugnet, Lisa AnnabelleISTA ;
García, R. A.;
Davies, G. R.;
Mathur, S.;
Corsaro, E.;
Hall, O. J.;
Rendle, B. M.
Abstract
Asteroseismology provides global stellar parameters such as masses, radii, or surface gravities using mean global seismic parameters and effective temperature for thousands of low-mass stars (0.8 M⊙ < M < 3 M⊙). This methodology has been successfully applied to stars in which acoustic modes excited by turbulent convection are measured. Other methods such as the Flicker technique can also be used to determine stellar surface gravities, but only works for log g above 2.5 dex. In this work, we present a new metric called FliPer (Flicker in spectral power density, in opposition to the standard Flicker measurement which is computed in the time domain); it is able to extend the range for which reliable surface gravities can be obtained (0.1 < log g < 4.6 dex) without performing any seismic analysis for stars brighter than Kp < 14. FliPer takes into account the average variability of a star measured in the power density spectrum in a given range of frequencies. However, FliPer values calculated on several ranges of frequency are required to better characterize a star. Using a large set of asteroseismic targets it is possible to calibrate the behavior of surface gravity with FliPer through machine learning. This calibration made with a random forest regressor covers a wide range of surface gravities from main-sequence stars to subgiants and red giants, with very small uncertainties from 0.04 to 0.1 dex. FliPer values can be inserted in automatic global seismic pipelines to either give an estimation of the stellar surface gravity or to assess the quality of the seismic results by detecting any outliers in the obtained νmax values. FliPer also constrains the surface gravities of main-sequence dwarfs using only long-cadence data for which the Nyquist frequency is too low to measure the acoustic-mode properties.
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2018-12-01
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Acknowledgement
We thank the anonymous referee for the very useful comments. We would also like to thank M. Benbakoura for his help in analyzing the light curves of several binary systems included in our set of stars. L.B. and R.A.G. acknowledge the support from PLATO and GOLF CNES grants. S.M. acknowledges support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant NNX15AF13G, the National Science Foundation grant AST-1411685, and the Ramon y Cajal fellowship no. RYC-2015-17697. E.C. is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 664931. O.J.H and B.M.R. acknowledge the support of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre is provided by the Danish National Research Foundation (Grant DNRF106). This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System. Data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.
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Bugnet LA, García RA, Davies GR, et al. FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2018;620. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833106
Bugnet, L. A., García, R. A., Davies, G. R., Mathur, S., Corsaro, E., Hall, O. J., & Rendle, B. M. (2018). FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants. Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833106
Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle, R. A. García, G. R. Davies, S. Mathur, E. Corsaro, O. J. Hall, and B. M. Rendle. “FliPer: A Global Measure of Power Density to Estimate Surface Gravities of Main-Sequence Solar-like Stars and Red Giants.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Sciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833106.
L. A. Bugnet et al., “FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants,” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 620. EDP Sciences, 2018.
Bugnet LA, García RA, Davies GR, Mathur S, Corsaro E, Hall OJ, Rendle BM. 2018. FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence solar-like stars and red giants. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 620, A38.
Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle, et al. “FliPer: A Global Measure of Power Density to Estimate Surface Gravities of Main-Sequence Solar-like Stars and Red Giants.” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 620, A38, EDP Sciences, 2018, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833106.
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