Asteroseismic Signatures of Core Magnetism and Rotation in Hundreds of Low-Luminosity Red Giants

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Auteurs principaux: Hatt, Emily J., Ong, J. M. Joel, Nielsen, Martin B., Chaplin, William J., Davies, Guy R., Deheuvels, Sébastien, Ballot, Jérôme, Li, Gang, Bugnet, Lisa
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author Hatt, Emily J.
Ong, J. M. Joel
Nielsen, Martin B.
Chaplin, William J.
Davies, Guy R.
Deheuvels, Sébastien
Ballot, Jérôme
Li, Gang
Bugnet, Lisa
author_facet Hatt, Emily J.
Ong, J. M. Joel
Nielsen, Martin B.
Chaplin, William J.
Davies, Guy R.
Deheuvels, Sébastien
Ballot, Jérôme
Li, Gang
Bugnet, Lisa
contents Red Giant stars host solar-like oscillations which have mixed character, being sensitive to conditions both in the outer convection zone and deep within the interior. The properties of these modes are sensitive to both core rotation and magnetic fields. While asteroseismic studies of the former have been done on a large scale, studies of the latter are currently limited to tens of stars. We aim to produce the first large catalogue of both magnetic and rotational perturbations. We jointly constrain these parameters by devising an automated method for fitting the power spectra directly. We successfully apply the method to 302 low-luminosity red giants. We find a clear bimodality in core rotation rate. The primary peak is at $δν_{\mathrm{rot}}$ = 0.32 $μ$Hz, and the secondary at $δν_{\mathrm{rot}}$ = 0.47 $μ$Hz. Combining our results with literature values, we find that the percentage of stars rotating much more rapidly than the population average increases with evolutionary state. We measure magnetic splittings of 2$σ$ significance in 23 stars. While the most extreme magnetic splitting values appear in stars with masses > 1.1M$_{\odot}$, implying they formerly hosted a convective core, a small but statistically significant magnetic splitting is measured at lower masses. Asymmetry between the frequencies of a rotationally split multiplet has previously been used to diagnose the presence of a magnetic perturbation. We find that of the stars with a significant detection of magnetic perturbation, 43\% do not show strong asymmetry. We find no strong evidence of correlation between the rotation and magnetic parameters.
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spellingShingle Asteroseismic Signatures of Core Magnetism and Rotation in Hundreds of Low-Luminosity Red Giants
Hatt, Emily J.
Ong, J. M. Joel
Nielsen, Martin B.
Chaplin, William J.
Davies, Guy R.
Deheuvels, Sébastien
Ballot, Jérôme
Li, Gang
Bugnet, Lisa
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Red Giant stars host solar-like oscillations which have mixed character, being sensitive to conditions both in the outer convection zone and deep within the interior. The properties of these modes are sensitive to both core rotation and magnetic fields. While asteroseismic studies of the former have been done on a large scale, studies of the latter are currently limited to tens of stars. We aim to produce the first large catalogue of both magnetic and rotational perturbations. We jointly constrain these parameters by devising an automated method for fitting the power spectra directly. We successfully apply the method to 302 low-luminosity red giants. We find a clear bimodality in core rotation rate. The primary peak is at $δν_{\mathrm{rot}}$ = 0.32 $μ$Hz, and the secondary at $δν_{\mathrm{rot}}$ = 0.47 $μ$Hz. Combining our results with literature values, we find that the percentage of stars rotating much more rapidly than the population average increases with evolutionary state. We measure magnetic splittings of 2$σ$ significance in 23 stars. While the most extreme magnetic splitting values appear in stars with masses > 1.1M$_{\odot}$, implying they formerly hosted a convective core, a small but statistically significant magnetic splitting is measured at lower masses. Asymmetry between the frequencies of a rotationally split multiplet has previously been used to diagnose the presence of a magnetic perturbation. We find that of the stars with a significant detection of magnetic perturbation, 43\% do not show strong asymmetry. We find no strong evidence of correlation between the rotation and magnetic parameters.
title Asteroseismic Signatures of Core Magnetism and Rotation in Hundreds of Low-Luminosity Red Giants
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01157