Multisite campaign on the open cluster M67. II. Evidence for solar-like oscillations in red giant stars

Details Multisite campaign on the open cluster M67. II. Evidence for solar-like oscillations in red giant stars Multisite campaign on the open cluster M67. II. Evidence for solar-like oscillations in red giant stars

2007-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702092v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.377:584-594,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11585.x

Measuring solar-like oscillations in an ensemble of stars in a cluster, holds promise for testing stellar structure and evolution more stringently than just fitting parameters to single field stars. The most ambitious attempt to pursue these prospects was by Gilliland et al. (1993) who targeted 11 turn-off stars in the open cluster M67 (NGC 2682), but the oscillation amplitudes were too small (<20micromag) to obtain unambiguous detections. Like Gilliland et al. (1993) we also aim at detecting solar-like oscillations in M67, but we target red giant stars with expected amplitudes in the range 50-500micromag and periods of 1 to 8 hours. We analyse our recently published photometry measurements, obtained during a six-week multisite campaign using nine telescopes around the world. The observations are compared with simulations and with estimated properties of the stellar oscillations. Noise levels in the Fourier spectra as low as 27micromag are obtained for single sites, while the combined data reach 19micromag, making this the best photometric time series of an ensemble of red giant stars. These data enable us to make the first test of the scaling relations (used to estimate frequency and amplitude) with an homogeneous ensemble of stars. The detected excess power is consistent with the expected signal from stellar oscillations, both in terms of its frequency range and amplitude. However, our results are limited by apparent high levels of non-white noise, which cannot be clearly separated from the stellar signal.

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