Asteroseismic Diagrams from a Survey of Solar-like Oscillations with Kepler

White, Timothy R.; Bedding, Timothy R.; Stello, Dennis; Appourchaux, Thierry; Ballot, Jérôme; Benomar, Othman; Bonanno, Alfio; Broomhall, Anne-Marie; Campante, Tiago L.; Chaplin, William J.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Corsaro, Enrico; Doğan, Gülnur; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Fletcher, Stephen T.; García, Rafael A.; Gaulme, Patrick; Handberg, Rasmus; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Karoff, Christoffer; Kjeldsen, Hans; Mathur, Savita; Mosser, Benoit; Monteiro, Mario J. P. F. G.; Régulo, C.; Salabert, David; Silva Aguirre, Victor; Thompson, Michael J.; Verner, Graham; Morris, Robert L.; Sanderfer, Dwight T.; Seader, Shawn E.
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 742, Issue 1, article id. L3 (2011).

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2011
Number of authors
33
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
48
Refereed citations
42
Description
Photometric observations made by the NASA Kepler Mission have led to a dramatic increase in the number of main-sequence and subgiant stars with detected solar-like oscillations. We present an ensemble asteroseismic analysis of 76 solar-type stars. Using frequencies determined from the Kepler time-series photometry, we have measured three asteroseismic parameters that characterize the oscillations: the large frequency separation (Δν), the small frequency separation between modes of l = 0 and l = 2 (δν02), and the dimensionless offset (epsilon). These measurements allow us to construct asteroseismic diagrams, namely the so-called Christensen-Dalsgaard diagram of δν02 versus Δν, and the recently re-introduced epsilon diagram. We compare the Kepler results with previously observed solar-type stars and with theoretical models. The positions of stars in these diagrams places constraints on their masses and ages. Additionally, we confirm the observational relationship between epsilon and T eff that allows for the unambiguous determination of radial order and should help resolve the problem of mode identification in F stars.
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