Radius determination of solar-type stars using asteroseismology: What to expect from the Kepler mission

Details Radius determination of solar-type stars using asteroseismology: What to expect from the Kepler mission Radius determination of solar-type stars using asteroseismology: What to expect from the Kepler mission

2009-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0766v1

Astrophys.J.700:1589-1602,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1589

For distant stars, as observed by the NASA Kepler satellite, parallax information is currently of fairly low quality and is not complete. This limits the precision with which the absolute sizes of the stars and their potential transiting planets can be determined by traditional methods. Asteroseismology will be used to aid the radius determination of stars observed during NASA's Kepler mission. We report on the recent asteroFLAG hare-and-hounds Exercise#2, where a group of `hares' simulated data of F-K main-sequence stars that a group of `hounds' sought to analyze, aimed at determining the stellar radii. Based on the asteroseismic large frequency spacing, obtained from simulations of 4-year time series data from the Kepler mission, we demonstrate that the stellar radii can be correctly and precisely determined, when combined with traditional stellar parameters from the Kepler Input Catalogue. The radii found by the various methods used by each independent hound generally agree with the true values of the artificial stars to within 3%, when the large frequency spacing is used. This is 5--10 times better than the results where seismology is not applied. These results give strong confidence that radius estimation can be performed to better than 3% for solar-like stars using automatic pipeline reduction. Even when the stellar distance and luminosity are unknown we can obtain the same level of agreement.

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