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Studying Hybrid gamma Doradus/delta Scuti Variable Stars with Kepler
Joyce A. Guzik(for the Kepler Asteroseismic
Science Consortium)
Los Alamos NationalLaboratory
25th Annual New MexicoAstronomy Symposium
Socorro, NMJanuary 15, 2010
LA-UR-10-00139
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0747
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The NASA Kepler Mission
Launched March 6, 2009 Search for habitable
planets High-precision CCD
photometry to detectplanetary transits
Secondary mission tomonitor variability ofover 100,000 stars forasteroseismology
http://kepler.nasa.gov
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γ Dor and δ Sct hybrids are ideal candidatesfor asteroseismology
Figure from J. Christensen-Dalsgaard
Pulsate in many simultaneousradial and nonradial modes.
Similarities with solar like stars,so can build on experience withthe Sun
Slightly more massive than Sun(1.4-1.6 Msun)
Convective cores, shallowerconvective envelope
Exhibit modes found in both typesof variables that are sensitive tothe structure of different regionsof the stellar interior.
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Properties of γ Doradus Variables Pulsating late A-F stars On or near main sequence Periods ~ 0.3 - 3 days Multiple photometric (a few
mmag) and spectroscopicvariables (up to 4 km s-1)
Undergo gravity-mode pulsationsof high radial order (n) and low-degree (l)
More than 60 bona fide currentmembers(Henry, Fekel, Henry 2007)
(from Pollard 2009)
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Properties of δ Scuti Variables Pulsating A-early F stars On or near main sequence Periods ~ 2 hours Observed in pressure-mode or
mixed p- and g-mode pulsationsof low-degree (l)
Hundreds known (Rodriguez et al.2000)
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The γ Dor g-modes were theoretically explained by a convectiveblocking mechanism at the base of the envelope convection zone
Luminosity fraction transported byradiation (red), work driving and damping(green), and modulus of nonadiabatichorizontal displacement (dashed line) vs.Temperature.
Convective envelopeRadiative interior
(Guzik et al. 2000)
The δ Sct p-modes,however, are drivenby kappa-effect fromsecond ionization ofof helium in theenvelope at about50,000 K (Chevalier1971)
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Hybrid stars are predicted by theory to exist only ina small overlap region of the two instability strips
α=1.8
Blue edge
Red edge
δ Sct rededgeδ Sct
γ Dor
(Dupret et al. 2005)
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Theoretical models predict hybrids in a narrow temperature range(3.84 < Teff <3.87) , and a frequency gap at about 5-10 cycles/day
(Grighacène 2009)
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(From Handler2009)
Four previously-known hybrids are located in theexpected region among γ Dor and δ Sct stars
+ δ Sct γ Dor
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Uytterhoeven et al. 2008 confirmed HD49434 asa hybrid in ground-based spectroscopy
Freq (d-1 ) l m0.2341851.27321.4831 γ Doradus [4,6] [0,4]1.734820 frequency2.666 range5.3311 [6,8] [0,4]5.583 9.3070 δ Scuti [4,6] [0,4]6.6841/7.6841 frequency [3,5] [0,4]10.1527/9.1527 range [6,8] [0,4]12.0332/11.0332 [6,8] [0,2]
Non-radial modesNon-radial modesdescribed bydescribed by
spherical harmonicsspherical harmonicsl, ml, m
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Kepler light curve and periodogram for 50days of data for KIC9775454
Light curve
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Kepler light curve and periodogram for 50days of data for KIC11445913
Light curve
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Because all of the γ Dor and δ Sct stars observed by Kepler turned out tobe hybrid candidates, we proposed a new categorization scheme basedon both amplitude and frequency
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Table 1 represents 234 out of 554 stars studiedby Kepler that showed frequencies in the γ Dor
or δ Sct region
The new categorization scheme gives thefollowing breakdown of 234 stars
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The stars in the four categories are not cleanlyseparated in the HR diagram
X
+
δ Sctδ Sct/γ Dor
γ Dor/ δ Sct
γ Dor
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The Kepler results generate many questions . . . Why have Kepler (and CoRoT) detected so many hybrids while theory predicts
their existence in only a small overlapping region of the instability strips? Are some modes driven by an additional pulsation mechanism, e.g. the stochastic
excitation as in solar-like stars? Why are modes observed in the gap predicted between the δ Sct and γ Dor
frequency range? Is Kepler detecting higher-degree (l > 3 ) modes usually not visible in ground-
based photometry that could fill in the frequency gap? Why is there so much variety of amplitudes and frequency spectra among similar
stars? Why are some of the stars located in the instability strips observed to be
essentially constant (not pulsating?) Is there a connection between the Am spectral peculiarity and the hybrid
phenomenon?
It is exciting that now we have so many hybridcandidates for asteroseismological studies