Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-09-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 6 figures. To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20078145
We present an asteroseismological study on PG 0122+200, the coolest known pulsating PG1159 (GW Vir) star. Our results are based on an augmented set of the full PG1159 evolutionary models recently presented by Miller Bertolami & Althaus (2006). We perform extensive computations of adiabatic g-mode pulsation periods on PG1159 evolutionary models with stellar masses ranging from 0.530 to 0.741 Msun. We derive a stellar mass of 0.626 Msun from a comparison between the observed period spacing and the computed asymptotic period spacing, and a stellar mass of 0.567 Msun by comparing the observed period spacing with the average of the computed period spacing. We also find, on the basis of a period-fit procedure, an asteroseismological model representative of PG 0122+200 which is able to reproduce the observed period pattern with an average of the period differences of 0.88 s. The model has an effective temperature of 81500 K, a stellar mass of 0.556 Msun, a surface gravity log g= 7.65, a stellar luminosity and radius of log(L/Lsun)= 1.14 and log(R/Rsun)= -1.73, respectively, and a He-rich envelope thickness of Menv= 0.019 Msun. We derive a seismic distance of about 614 pc and a parallax of about 1.6 mas. The results of the period-fit analysis carried out in this work suggest that the asteroseismological mass of PG 0122+200 could be 6-20 % lower than thought hitherto and in closer agreement (to within 5 %) with the spectroscopic mass. This result suggests that a reasonable consistency between the stellar mass values obtained from spectroscopy and asteroseismology can be expected when detailed PG1159 evolutionary models are considered.
Althaus Leandro G.
Corsico Alejandro Hugo
Miller Bertolami Marcelo M.
Vauclair Gerard
Werner Kirstin
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