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Asteroseismology of old open clusters with Kepler: direct estimate of the integrated red giant branch mass-loss in NGC 6791 and 6819
Miglio, A.; Brogaard, K.; Stello, D. et al.
2012In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 419, p. 2077-2088
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Keywords :
asteroseismology; stars: late-type; stars: mass-loss; open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 6791; open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 6819
Abstract :
[en] Mass-loss of red giant branch (RGB) stars is still poorly determined, despite its crucial role in the chemical enrichment of galaxies. Thanks to the recent detection of solar-like oscillations in G-K giants in open clusters with Kepler, we can now directly determine stellar masses for a statistically significant sample of stars in the old open clusters NGC 6791 and 6819. The aim of this work is to constrain the integrated RGB mass-loss by comparing the average mass of stars in the red clump (RC) with that of stars in the low-luminosity portion of the RGB [i.e. stars with L≲L(RC)]. Stellar masses were determined by combining the available seismic parameters ν[SUB]max[/SUB] and Δν with additional photometric constraints and with independent distance estimates. We measured the masses of 40 stars on the RGB and 19 in the RC of the old metal-rich cluster NGC 6791. We find that the difference between the average mass of RGB and RC stars is small, but significant [? (random) ±0.04 (systematic) M[SUB]&sun;[/SUB]]. Interestingly, such a small ? does not support scenarios of an extreme mass-loss for this metal-rich cluster. If we describe the mass-loss rate with Reimers prescription, a first comparison with isochrones suggests that the observed ? is compatible with a mass-loss efficiency parameter in the range 0.1 ≲η≲ 0.3. Less stringent constraints on the RGB mass-loss rate are set by the analysis of the ˜2 Gyr old NGC 6819, largely due to the lower mass-loss expected for this cluster, and to the lack of an independent and accurate distance determination. In the near future, additional constraints from frequencies of individual pulsation modes and spectroscopic effective temperatures will allow further stringent tests of the Δν and ν[SUB]max[/SUB] scaling relations, which provide a novel, and potentially very accurate, means of determining stellar radii and masses.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Miglio, A.;  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Brogaard, K.;  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
Stello, D.;  Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Chaplin, W. J.;  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
D'Antona, F.;  INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, Monteporzio Catone (RM), Italy
Montalban Iglesias, Josefa ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Basu, S.;  Department of Astronomy, Yale University, PO Box 208101, New Haven, CT 06520-8101, USA
Bressan, A.;  SISSA, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy ; INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
Grundahl, F.;  Department of Physics and Astronomy, Building 1520, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Pinsonneault, M.;  Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Serenelli, A. M.;  Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), Facultad de Ciencies, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Elsworth, Y.;  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Hekker, S.;  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT ; Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kallinger, T.;  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Colombia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Mosser, B.;  LESIA, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Denis Diderot, Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
Ventura, P.;  INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, Monteporzio Catone (RM), Italy
Bonanno, A.;  INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Via S.Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy
Noels-Grötsch, Arlette ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté des sciences) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Sciences)
Silva Aguirre, V.;  Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Szabo, R.;  Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
Li, J.;  SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
McCauliff, S.;  Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Middour, C. K.;  Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Kjeldsen, H.;  Department of Physics and Astronomy, Building 1520, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark)
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Language :
English
Title :
Asteroseismology of old open clusters with Kepler: direct estimate of the integrated red giant branch mass-loss in NGC 6791 and 6819
Publication date :
01 January 2012
Journal title :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN :
0035-8711
eISSN :
1365-2966
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
419
Pages :
2077-2088
Peer reviewed :
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