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author Kjeldsen, Hans
Bedding, Timothy R.
Li, Yaguang
Grundahl, Frank
Andersen, Mads Fredslund
Wright, Duncan J.
Soutter, Jack
Wittenmyer, Robert
Reyes, Claudia
Stello, Dennis
Crawford, Courtney
Zhou, Yixiao
Clerte, Mathieu
Palle, Pere L.
Simon-Diaz, Sergio
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen
Handberg, Rasmus
Hansen, Hasse
Heeren, Paul
Jessen-Hansen, Jens
Lund, Mikkel N.
Lundkvist, Mia S.
Brogaard, Karsten
Tronsgaard, Rene
Rudrasingam, Jonatan
Casagrande, Luca
Horner, Jonathan
Huber, Daniel
Lattanzio, John
Martell, Sarah L.
Murphy, Simon J.
author_facet Kjeldsen, Hans
Bedding, Timothy R.
Li, Yaguang
Grundahl, Frank
Andersen, Mads Fredslund
Wright, Duncan J.
Soutter, Jack
Wittenmyer, Robert
Reyes, Claudia
Stello, Dennis
Crawford, Courtney
Zhou, Yixiao
Clerte, Mathieu
Palle, Pere L.
Simon-Diaz, Sergio
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen
Handberg, Rasmus
Hansen, Hasse
Heeren, Paul
Jessen-Hansen, Jens
Lund, Mikkel N.
Lundkvist, Mia S.
Brogaard, Karsten
Tronsgaard, Rene
Rudrasingam, Jonatan
Casagrande, Luca
Horner, Jonathan
Huber, Daniel
Lattanzio, John
Martell, Sarah L.
Murphy, Simon J.
contents We present time-series radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and, for the first time, SONG-Australia. We also analyse a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. The resulting power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS light curve shows the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise, reflecting the fact that photometric measurements are much more affected by the granulation background than are radial velocities. The simultaneous observations in velocity and photometry represent the best such measurements for any star apart from the Sun. They allowed us to measure the ratio between the bolometric photometric amplitude and the velocity amplitude to be 26.6 +/- 3.1 ppm/(m/s). We measured this ratio for the Sun from published SOHO data to be 19.5 +/- 0.7 ppm/(m/s) and, after accounting for the difference in effective temperatures of and the Sun, these values align with expectations. In both the Sun and beta Aql, the photometry-to-velocity ratio appears to be a function of frequency. We also measured the phase shift of the oscillations in beta Aql between SONG and TESS to be -113 +/- 7 deg, which agrees with the value for the Sun and also with a 3-D simulation of a star with similar properties to beta Aql. Importantly for exoplanet searches, we argue that simultaneous photometry can be used to predict the contribution of oscillations to radial velocities. We measured frequencies for 22 oscillation modes in beta Aql and carried out asteroseismic modelling, yielding an excellent fit to the frequencies. We derived accurate values for the mass and age, and were able to place quite strong constraints on the mixing-length parameter. Finally, we show that the oscillation properties of beta Aql are very similar to stars in the open cluster M67.
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spellingShingle Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
Kjeldsen, Hans
Bedding, Timothy R.
Li, Yaguang
Grundahl, Frank
Andersen, Mads Fredslund
Wright, Duncan J.
Soutter, Jack
Wittenmyer, Robert
Reyes, Claudia
Stello, Dennis
Crawford, Courtney
Zhou, Yixiao
Clerte, Mathieu
Palle, Pere L.
Simon-Diaz, Sergio
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen
Handberg, Rasmus
Hansen, Hasse
Heeren, Paul
Jessen-Hansen, Jens
Lund, Mikkel N.
Lundkvist, Mia S.
Brogaard, Karsten
Tronsgaard, Rene
Rudrasingam, Jonatan
Casagrande, Luca
Horner, Jonathan
Huber, Daniel
Lattanzio, John
Martell, Sarah L.
Murphy, Simon J.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
We present time-series radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and, for the first time, SONG-Australia. We also analyse a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. The resulting power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS light curve shows the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise, reflecting the fact that photometric measurements are much more affected by the granulation background than are radial velocities. The simultaneous observations in velocity and photometry represent the best such measurements for any star apart from the Sun. They allowed us to measure the ratio between the bolometric photometric amplitude and the velocity amplitude to be 26.6 +/- 3.1 ppm/(m/s). We measured this ratio for the Sun from published SOHO data to be 19.5 +/- 0.7 ppm/(m/s) and, after accounting for the difference in effective temperatures of and the Sun, these values align with expectations. In both the Sun and beta Aql, the photometry-to-velocity ratio appears to be a function of frequency. We also measured the phase shift of the oscillations in beta Aql between SONG and TESS to be -113 +/- 7 deg, which agrees with the value for the Sun and also with a 3-D simulation of a star with similar properties to beta Aql. Importantly for exoplanet searches, we argue that simultaneous photometry can be used to predict the contribution of oscillations to radial velocities. We measured frequencies for 22 oscillation modes in beta Aql and carried out asteroseismic modelling, yielding an excellent fit to the frequencies. We derived accurate values for the mass and age, and were able to place quite strong constraints on the mixing-length parameter. Finally, we show that the oscillation properties of beta Aql are very similar to stars in the open cluster M67.
title Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00493