Inferring information about rotation from stellar oscillations

Author(s)
Marie J. Goupil, Reza Samadi, Jeremie Lochard, Wojciech A. Dziembowski, Aleksiej Pamiatnych
Abstract

The first part of this paper briefly illustrates the intense scientific activity in the field of stellar rotation, while the second part is devoted to discussing rotation as a pertubation effect upon oscillation frequencies. The discussion focuses on one specific example: the p-modes frequency small separation which provides information about properties of the stellar inner layers. It is shown that the small separation can be affected by rotation at the level of 0.1-0.2 œHz for a 1.4M? model rotating with an equatorial velocity of 20 km/s at the surface. This is of the same order of magnitude as the expected precision on frequencies with a 3 months observation and must therefore be taken into account. We show however that it is possible to recover the small separation free of these contaminating effects of rotation, provided enough high quality data are available as will be with space seismic missions such as Eddington.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
External organisation(s)
Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Pages
133-140
No. of pages
8
Publication date
2004
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/df17d174-3a37-4dd3-855a-5a62c90533fc