Asteroseismology of solar-type stars: signatures of convective and/or helium cores

Details Asteroseismology of solar-type stars: signatures of convective and/or helium cores Asteroseismology of solar-type stars: signatures of convective and/or helium cores

2008-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0235v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200809977

Asteroseismology of solar-type stars is an important tool for constraining stellar parameters and internal structure. Several frequency combinations are largely used for comparisons between models and observations. In particular, the ``small separations'' are very sensitive to stellar cores. We showed in a previous paper that they can change sign, in contradiction with the ``asymptotic theory'', and that this behaviour could correspond to signatures of convective and/or helium cores. Here we analyse this behaviour in detail by systematic modelling during stellar evolution. We computed evolutionary tracks for models with various masses (from 1.05 to 1.25 Msun) and various chemical composition, with and without overshooting. We computed the adiabatic oscillation frequencies of the models and analysed the evolution of their small separations along an evolutionary track. We found that, for all cases, the stars go through a stage, during their evolution time, where the small separations computed between degrees l=0 and l=2 become negative in the observed range of frequencies. This behaviour is clearly related to the signature of a helium-rich core. We discuss the consequences for the interpretation of the acoustic frequencies observed in solar-type stars.

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