Visibilities and bolometric corrections for stellar oscillation modes observed by Kepler

Details Visibilities and bolometric corrections for stellar oscillation modes observed by Kepler Visibilities and bolometric corrections for stellar oscillation modes observed by Kepler

2011-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/1105.4557v2

A&A 531 (2011), A124

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, minor language edition. Published in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361/201016230

Kepler produces a large amount of data used for asteroseismological analyses, particularly of solar-like stars and red giants. The mode amplitudes observed in the Kepler spectral band have to be converted into bolometric amplitudes to be compared to models. We give a simple bolometric correction for the amplitudes of radial modes observed with Kepler, as well as the relative visibilities of non-radial modes. We numerically compute the bolometric correction c_{K-bol} and mode visibilities for different effective temperatures Teff within the range 4000-7500 K, using a similar approach to a recent one from the literature (Michel et al. 2009, A&A 495, 979). We derive a law for the correction to bolometric values: c_{K-bol} = 1 + a_1 (Teff-To) + a_2 (Teff-To)^2, with To = 5934 K, a_1 = 1.349e-4 K^{-1}, and a_2 = -3.120e-9 K^{-2} or, alternatively, as the power law c_{K-bol} = (Teff/To)^alpha with alpha = 0.80. We give tabulated values for the mode visibilities based on limb-darkening (LD), computed from ATLAS9 model atmospheres for Teff in [4000,7500] K, log g in [2.5,4.5], and [M/H] in [-1.0,+1.0]. We show that using LD profiles already integrated over the spectral band provides quick and good approximations for visibilities. We point out the limits of these classical visibility estimations.

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