Asteroseismology and interferometry of the red giant star epsilon Ophiuchi
- Author(s)
- Anwesh Mazumdar, Antoine Merand, Rainer Kuschnig
- Abstract
The GIII red giant star ? Oph has been found to exhibit several modes of oscillation by the MOST mission. We interpret the observed frequencies of oscillation in terms of theoretical radial p-mode frequencies of stellar models. Evolutionary models of this star, in both shell H-burning and core He-burning phases of evolution, are constructed using as constraints a combination of measurements from classical ground-based observations (for luminosity, temperature, and chemical composition) and seismic observations from MOST. Radial frequencies of models in either evolutionary phase can reproduce the observed frequency spectrum of ? Oph almost equally well. The best-fit models indicate a mass in the range of 1.85 ± 0.05 {M_o.} with radius of 10.55 ± 0.15{R_o.}. We also obtain an independent estimate of the radius of ? Oph with highly accurate interferometric observations in the infrared K' band, using the CHARA/FLUOR instrument. The measured limb-darkened disk angular diameter of ? Oph is 2.961 ± 0.007 mas. Together with the Hipparcos parallax, this translates into a photospheric radius of R = 10.39 ± 0.07 {R_o.}. The radius obtained from the asteroseismic analysis matches the interferometric value quite closely even though the radius was not constrained during the modelling.
Bibtex entry for this abst
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Yale University, Georgia State University
- Journal
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Volume
- 503
- Pages
- 521-531
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 0004-6361
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912351
- Publication date
- 2009
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/bf0f8d4e-df85-4a5e-b15d-fbcdabf54eef