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Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump

Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump

The Red Clump is an overdensity in luminosity on the HR diagram, caused by certain Core-Helium Burning stars with similar core masses, a product of their evolutionary physics. We identify the exact luminosity of the Red Clump using asteroseismology, and then separately using Gaia data, to see how our assumptions about one method lead to us drawing different inferences in the other.

We find that changing asteroseismic temperature scale and/or corrections to scaling relations change the position of the Red Clump significantly, and that the corresponding parallax zero-point offset required to find that same Red Clump luminosity similarly varies significantly. It should be noted that if we assume asteroseismology to be absolute, we do not recover a parallax zero-point offset that agrees with similar work done by Zinn et al. 2018.

Clearly, there is still much to be done!

Oliver Hall

July 12, 2018
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  1. @asteronomer
    ojhall94
    Oliver J. Hall
    Guy Davies, Yvonne Elsworth,
    Thomas North, Rafael García, Saniya Khan
    TASC4/KASC11
    Aarhus University
    12/07/2018
    Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2:
    Luminosity of the Red Clump
    !1

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  2. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
    @asteronomer
    ojhall94

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  3. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    ojhall94
    » Disagreement between
    asteroseismic & Gaia distances in
    DR1
    » Investigated using the Red Clump
    » ‘seismic parallax’: distance from
    luminosity from seismic radius
    Seismic parallax (mas)
    Apparent K-band mag
    Davies+17

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  4. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    ojhall94
    » Lindegren+ (Quasars):
    » Quasars in Kepler
    field:
    » Riess+ (Cepheids):
    » Zinn+ (seismo):
    ϖzp
    = − 29μas
    ϖzp
    = − 46μas
    ϖzp
    = − 53μas
    ϖzp
    = − 30μas
    Arenou +18

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  5. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    ojhall94
    » We aim to investigate the RC magnitude in:
    » Seismic absolute magnitude
    » Absolute magnitude from photometry
    + Gaia
    » We vary:
    » Temperature scale
    » Scaling corrections
    » Parallax zero-point
    Arenou +18

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  6. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    » Data from Yu+ 2018
    » Reclassify with Elsworth+ 2017
    » K-band photometry from 2MASS
    » Extinction from Green+ 2018
    » BCs from Casagrande & Vandenberg
    2014 (& 2018, BCcodes)
    » And Gaia data via Megan Bedell @
    gaia-kepler.fun!

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  7. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    μ σ Q σo ̂
    Mi
    σ ̂
    Mi

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  8. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    μ σ Q σo Mi
    ̂
    Mi
    σ ̂
    Mi

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  9. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    » Little more complicated for Gaia…
    » Two new parameters:
    » , length scale of distance prior
    » , parallax zero point
    » Input photometry, parallax, extinction
    Adapted from Hawkins+ 17
    μ σ Q σo
    ϖzp
    L
    ϖzp

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  10. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    » Seismic luminosity of the RC
    is correlated with Teff scale
    » Choice of scaling-relation
    correction has non-negligible
    impact on RC luminosity

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  11. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    » Used seismic RC
    magnitude to inform our
    Gaia model
    » For different RC
    magnitudes, the model
    requires a different
    zeropoint!
    μ = − 0.0068ϖzp
    − 1.952

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  12. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    ojhall94
    » If we trust a parallax zero-point,
    we can use the RC to calibrate
    asteroseismology
    OR
    » If we trust asteroseismic
    assumptions completely, we can
    use the RC to calibrate Gaia

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  13. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
    @asteronomer
    ojhall94
    » If we trust a parallax zero-point,
    we can use the RC to calibrate
    asteroseismology
    OR
    » If we trust asteroseismic
    assumptions completely, we can
    use the RC to calibrate Gaia
    Slumstrup, P14

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  14. Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Luminosity of the Red Clump
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    In summary…
    » Used hierarchical models to locate the RC in
    seismic & Gaia data
    » Choice of seismic temperature scale & scaling
    relations have strong impact on position of RC
    » Position of RC has strong correlation with
    parallax zero-point
    » To calibrate one, we’ll need a strong constraint
    on the other!

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