Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-10-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Communications in Asteroseismology
Scientific paper
The recent launch of the Kepler space telescope brings the opportunity to study oscillations systematically in large numbers of solar-like stars. In the framework of the asteroFLAG project, we have developed an automated pipeline to estimate global oscillation parameters, such as the frequency of maximum power (nu_max) and the large frequency spacing (Delta_nu), for a large number of time series. We present an effective method based on the autocorrelation function to find excess power and use a scaling relation to estimate granulation timescales as initial conditions for background modelling. We derive reliable uncertainties for nu_max and Delta_nu through extensive simulations. We have tested the pipeline on about 2000 simulated Kepler stars with magnitudes of V~7-12 and were able to correctly determine nu_max and Delta_nu for about half of the sample. For about 20%, the returned large frequency spacing is accurate enough to determine stellar radii to a 1% precision. We conclude that the methods presented here are a promising approach to process the large amount of data expected from Kepler.
Arentoft Torben
Bedding Timothy R.
Chaplin William J.
Huber Daniel
Kjeldsen Hans
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