The ^12C(alpha,gamma)^16O Nuclear Reaction Rate from Asteroseismology of the DBV White Dwarf CBS 114

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2002-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208225v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in proceedings of ``Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram''

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We have identified seven independent pulsation modes in the helium-atmosphere variable (DBV) white dwarf star CBS 114, based on 65 hours of time-resolved CCD photometry from the 0.75-m telescope at SAAO. We interpret these pulsations as non-radial g-modes with the same spherical degree l=1, as suggested by the mean period spacing of 37.1+/-0.7 seconds. We use a genetic-algorithm-based fitting method to find the globally optimal model parameters, including the stellar mass (M_* = 0.73 M_sun), the effective temperature (T_eff = 21,000 K), the mass of the atmospheric helium layer (log[M_He/M_*] = -6.66), and the central oxygen mass fraction (X_O = 0.61). The latter value implies a rate for the ^12C(alpha,gamma)^16O reaction near S_300 = 180 keV b, consistent with laboratory measurements.

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