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Title: Asteroseismology and Gaia: Testing Scaling Relations Using 2200 Kepler Stars with TGAS Parallaxes

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal
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  1. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822 (United States)
  2. Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
  3. Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)
  4. Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans S/N, E-08193, Barcelona (Spain)
  5. Vanderbilt University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 6301 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)
  6. School of Physics, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052 (Australia)
  7. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
  8. Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia)
  9. Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark and Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K (Denmark)
  10. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
  11. Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DRF-CNRS, Université Paris 7 Diderot, IRFU/SAp, Centre de Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  12. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
  13. Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut street Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301 (United States)

We present a comparison of parallaxes and radii from asteroseismology and Gaia DR1 (TGAS) for 2200 Kepler stars spanning from the main sequence to the red-giant branch. We show that previously identified offsets between TGAS parallaxes and distances derived from asteroseismology and eclipsing binaries have likely been overestimated for parallaxes ≲5--10 mas (≈90%–98% of the TGAS sample). The observed differences in our sample can furthermore be partially compensated by adopting a hotter T{sub eff} scale (such as the infrared flux method) instead of spectroscopic temperatures for dwarfs and subgiants. Residual systematic differences are at the ≈2% level in parallax across three orders of magnitude. We use TGAS parallaxes to empirically demonstrate that asteroseismic radii are accurate to ≈5% or better for stars between ≈0.8--8 R{sub ⊙}. We find no significant offset for main-sequence (≲1.5 R{sub ⊙}) and low-luminosity RGB stars (≈3–8 R{sub ⊙}), but seismic radii appear to be systematically underestimated by ≈5% for subgiants (≈1.5–3 R{sub ⊙}). We find no systematic errors as a function of metallicity between [Fe/H]≈−0.8 to +0.4 dex, and show tentative evidence that corrections to the scaling relation for the large frequency separation (Δν) improve the agreement with TGAS for RGB stars. Finally, we demonstrate that beyond ≈3 kpc asteroseismology will provide more precise distances than end-of-mission Gaia data, highlighting the synergy and complementary nature of Gaia and asteroseismology for studying galactic stellar populations.

OSTI ID:
22875977
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 844, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English