Bibcode
Pinsonneault, M. H.; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; Tayar, Jamie; Serenelli, Aldo; Stello, Dennis; Zinn, Joel; Mathur, S.; García, Rafael A.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Kallinger, Thomas; Mészáros, Szabolcs; Mosser, Benoit; Stassun, Keivan; Girardi, Léo; Rodrigues, Thaíse S.; Silva Aguirre, Victor; An, Deokkeun; Basu, Sarbani; Chaplin, William J.; Corsaro, Enrico; Cunha, Katia; García-Hernández, D. A.; Holtzman, Jon; Jönsson, Henrik; Shetrone, Matthew; Smith, Verne V.; Sobeck, Jennifer S.; Stringfellow, Guy S.; Zamora, O.; Beers, Timothy C.; Fernández-Trincado, J. G.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Hearty, Fred R.; Nitschelm, Christian
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 239, Issue 2, article id. 32, 25 pp. (2018).
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2018
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Description
We present a catalog of stellar properties for a large sample of 6676
evolved stars with Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution
Experiment spectroscopic parameters and Kepler asteroseismic data
analyzed using five independent techniques. Our data include
evolutionary state, surface gravity, mean density, mass, radius, age,
and the spectroscopic and asteroseismic measurements used to derive
them. We employ a new empirical approach for combining asteroseismic
measurements from different methods, calibrating the inferred stellar
parameters, and estimating uncertainties. With high statistical
significance, we find that asteroseismic parameters inferred from the
different pipelines have systematic offsets that are not removed by
accounting for differences in their solar reference values. We include
theoretically motivated corrections to the large frequency spacing
(Δν) scaling relation, and we calibrate the zero-point of the
frequency of the maximum power (ν max) relation to be
consistent with masses and radii for members of star clusters. For most
targets, the parameters returned by different pipelines are in much
better agreement than would be expected from the pipeline-predicted
random errors, but 22% of them had at least one method not return a
result and a much larger measurement dispersion. This supports the usage
of multiple analysis techniques for asteroseismic stellar population
studies. The measured dispersion in mass estimates for fundamental
calibrators is consistent with our error model, which yields median
random and systematic mass uncertainties for RGB stars of order 4%.
Median random and systematic mass uncertainties are at the 9% and 8%
level, respectively, for red clump stars.
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