Unlocking the Potential: Deep dive into ocean of Ceramic Magnets.pptx
Meredith Rawls' PhD Defense
1. Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries as
a Benchmark for Asteroseismology
Meredith L. Rawls
Department of Astronomy
New Mexico State University
April 8, 2016 • PhD Thesis Defense
@merrdiff
Image: G Perez, IAC, SMM
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✦ Eclipsing binaries with light curves and radial
velocities let us directly measure M, R
✦ Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to characterize
lots of stars quickly, using light curves alone
✦ We can study oscillating stars in eclipsing binaries
from two independent perspectives
✦ A set of well-characterized binaries lets us explore
why some don’t oscillate when we think they should
How to measure stellar properties?
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✦ Larger stars oscillate more slowly
✦ Evolved giants: hours–days
✦ Sun-like stars: minutes
Stochastic “ringing” oscillations
in stars’ convective zones
100 μHz 1 mHz 500 Hz
Figure concept: P. Gaulme
6. Solar-like oscillations tell us about
a star’s mean gravity and density
Meredith L. Rawls • @merrdiff
Δν
νmax
Power
Frequency ν
✦ Acoustic pressure modes
✦ Buoyant gravity modes
✦ Scaling relations
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Chaplin & Miglio 2013
left side x-axis range
MS
MS
Subgiant
Subgiant
RGB
base
RGB
RGB
RGB
Red
clump
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✦ Kepler red giant catalog: ~14,000
✦ Kepler eclipsing binary catalog: 2,500+
✦ After cross-correlating: 19
✦ Most systems are SB2, but 4 are SB1
✦ Most are oscillators, but 4 are not
Searching for red giants in
eclipsing binary systems
Gaulme et al. 2013, 2014
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✦ Process light curves to “fill”
eclipses and remove gaps
✦ Single set of oscillations
✦ Broad and damped modes
✦ Evolved onto the red clump
Characterizing a star: asteroseismology
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Frequency (µHz)
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KIC 9246715
Reference star
Rawls et al. 2016
KIC 9246715
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Characterizing a star: binary modeling
✦ Process Kepler light curve to
preserve eclipses
✦ Extract radial velocities from
spectra via the broadening function
✦ Get all velocities on one zeropoint
✦ Suite of broadening function
programs in python:
github.com/mrawls/BF-rvplotter
Rawls et al. 2016
0.0
0.2
0.4 0.773 φ
2012-03-01
TRES 0.831 φ
2012-03-11
TRES 0.960 φ
2012-04-02
TRES 0.170 φ
2012-05-08
TRES
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0.2
0.4 0.275 φ
2012-05-26
TRES 0.316 φ
2012-06-02
TRES 0.374 φ
2012-06-12
ARCES 0.460 φ
2012-06-27
ARCES
0.0
0.2
0.4 0.479 φ
2012-06-30
TRES 0.618 φ
2012-07-24
TRES 0.811 φ
2012-08-26
ARCES 0.812 φ
2012-08-26
ARCES
0.0
0.2
0.4 0.817 φ
2012-08-27
ARCES 0.864 φ
2012-09-04
ARCES 0.869 φ
2012-09-05
TRES 0.015 φ
2012-09-30
TRES
0.0
0.2
0.4 0.155 φ
2012-10-24
TRES 0.318 φ
2012-11-21
TRES 0.091 φ
2013-04-02
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0.196 φ
2013-04-20
ARCES
−60 −40 −20 0 20 40 60
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0.4 0.511 φ
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−60 −40 −20 0 20 40 60
0.982 φ
2013-09-02
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−60 −40 −20 0 20 40 60
0.023 φ
2013-09-09
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Smoothed BF
Two-Gaussian fit
Uncorrected Radial Velocity (km s−1
)
BroadeningFunction KIC 9246715
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Characterizing a star: binary modeling
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Magnitude
ELC Model
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Magnitude
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Orbital Phase (conjunction at φ = 0.5)
Secondary Primary
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✦ Double red giant KIC 9246715
✦ Stars are nearly twins; eclipse
depths vary due to geometry
✦ Simultaneously fit radial
velocities and light curve
✦ Minimize χ2 with 16 free
parameters using DE-MCMC
optimizers
Rawls et al. 2016
Radial
velocities
Kepler
light curve
Eclipse
zoom
KIC 9246715
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Putting the pieces together KIC 9246715
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Putting the pieces together KIC 9246715
2.15 M⊙, 8.30 R⊙
2.17 M⊙, 8.37 R⊙
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Putting the pieces together
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∆I/I(%)
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KIC 9246715
Rawls et al. 2016
2.15 M⊙, 8.30 R⊙
2.17 M⊙, 8.37 R⊙
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✦ KIC 9246715 is in good company
✦ Oscillation modes are damped or
missing in many red giant binaries
✦ All modes affected equally
✦ Compare properties of binaries with
strong, damped, and no oscillations
✦ Determine what physical conditions
prevent resonant convection zones
Some other systems also show
damped or absent oscillations
— no oscillations
νmax ~ 4 μHz
νmax ~ 80 μHz
Gaulme et al. 2013
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✦ Fourier decomposition turns
dozens of composite spectra into
one spectrum per star
✦ Stellar atmosphere modeling
✦ Lines sensitive to magnetic fields
✦ Suite of python programs to assist
with disentangling:
github.com/mrawls/FDBinary-tools
Disentangled spectra hold
clues to magnetic activity
One of 23 high-res spectra (light from both stars)
Star 1, Teff = 4990 ± 90 K
Star 2, Teff = 5030 ± 80 K
KIC 9246715
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✦ Magnetically sensitive Fe I lines don’t
differ from non-sensitive ones
✦ Ca H & K lines too blue, noisy
✦ Ca II λλ8498,8542 show no emission
✦ Excess Hα absorption?
✦ Orbital solution + light ratio both
needed for successful disentangling
Disentangled spectra hold
clues to magnetic activity5554 5557 5560
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Fei, non-mag
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Fei, non-mag
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Fei, mag
6559 6562 6565
Hα
6840 6844
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Observed
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Caii λλ8498,8542
Wavelength (˚A)
ScaledFlux
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Fei, non-mag
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Fei, mag
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Hα
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Model
Difference
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Caii λλ8498,8542
Wavelength (˚A)
ScaledFlux
Rawls et al. 2016
KIC 9246715
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✦ Robotically-controlled 1m
telescope at APO
✦ Kepler cannot measure color
✦ Goal: compare eclipse fluxes
with out-of-eclipse flux
✦ Especially useful for red
giants with faint companions
Multi-band photometry potentially
constrains light ratio and temperatures
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✦ Two non-oscillators
✦ Mix of orbital periods (19 – 235 days)
✦ Three with variability > 1%
✦ Two with phase effects
✦ Mix of eccentricities (< 0.001 – 0.38)
✦ Observed the most in 1m campaign
Choosing a representative
subset of red giant binaries
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KIC 8702921
P = 19.4 days
e = 0.10
variability ~ 1.4%
No Ca II emission
Deep Hα line
The only SB1
in the sample
0.27 M⊙
0.29 R⊙
1.67 M⊙
5.32 R⊙
1/7
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KIC 9291629
1.11 M⊙
1.83 R⊙
1.13 M⊙
7.93 R⊙
P = 20.7 days
e = 0.0006
variability ~ 16%
Ca II net emission
Normal Hα line
Fast rotator
BVRI used in fit
2/7
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KIC 3955867
0.92 M⊙
0.97 R⊙
1.10 M⊙
8.24 R⊙
P = 33.7 days
e = 0.01
variability ~ 23%
Ca II net emission
Hα not too deep
Fast rotator
3/7
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KIC 10001167
0.81 M⊙
0.97 R⊙
0.86 M⊙
12.73 R⊙
P = 120.4 days
e = 0.16
variability ~ 0.4%
No Ca II emission
Deep Hα line
Phase effects
4/7
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KIC 5786154
1.02 M⊙
1.56 R⊙
1.06 M⊙
11.01 R⊙
P = 197.9 days
e = 0.38
variability ~ 0.2%
No Ca II emission
Deep Hα line
Most eccentric
5/7
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KIC 7037405
1.15 M⊙
1.74 R⊙
1.27 M⊙
13.72 R⊙
P = 207.1 days
e = 0.23
variability ~ 0.2%
No Ca II emission
Deep Hα line
25 APOGEE RVs
McKeever+ in prep
6/7
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KIC 9970396
1.00 M⊙
1.08 R⊙
1.17 M⊙
7.70 R⊙
P = 235.3 days
e = 0.18
variability ~ 0.2%
No Ca II emission
Deep Hα line
Kepler LC gaps
BVRI used in fit
7/7
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✦ Seismic M, R are both too large
✦ Densities and gravities nearly agree
✦ Stars least like the Sun differ the most
✦ Spectroscopic gravities are too high
The scaling relations
are not perfect
Coming soon: Gaulme et al. 2016
Mass Radius
Density
(Δν)
Gravity
(νmax)
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✦ The most active giants lack
oscillations, have short periods,
and are rotationally synchronous
✦ They also show differential rotation
✦ Ca II net emission agrees with
strongest photometric variability
✦ Hα may trace chromospheric activity
Magnetic activity roundup
Robinson et al. 1990
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8702921
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Porb [days]
Pvar[days]
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: 1
4
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2
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1
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: 1 Evidence for orbital &
rotational resonances
More stellar variability
Less stellar variability
Stronger oscillations
Weaker oscillations
Gaulme et al. 2014
and Ravenel et al. in prep
✦ Binaries with no oscillations
more likely to be synchronized
✦ Binaries with synchronization
more likely to be active (variable)
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✦ MESA: 1D stellar profiles over time
✦ Initialize model with M & metallicity;
let star evolve to present R
✦ KIC 9246715 contains the only red
clump stars in this sample
✦ Adjusted mixing-length parameter
(increase efficiency of convection)
to get sufficiently small RC stars
Stellar evolution models
constrain tidal history and age
KIC 9246715
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✦ Depends on stellar evolution and
influence of companion star
✦ Δe is a function of M, M2/M, Porb, I(t)
✦ I(t) is a function of Teff(t), Menv(t), R(t)
Tidal forces over time
Verbunt & Phinney 1995
KIC 9246715
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✦ Depends on stellar evolution and
influence of companion star
✦ Δe is a function of M, M2/M, Porb, I(t)
✦ I(t) is a function of Teff(t), Menv(t), R(t)
Tidal forces over time
Verbunt & Phinney 1995
M2/M = 0.989KIC 9291629
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✦ Rotation synchronization should
happen before orbit circularization
✦ Two most active giants with short
periods are nearly circularized
✦ Eccentric systems have not had
enough time for tides to circularize
✦ Two outliers/in-between cases
Predicted changes
in eccentricity
35. Prediction: a range of
oscillation populations
Meredith L. Rawls • @merrdiff
Tidally-induced
“heartbeat” pulsations
No solar-like
oscillations
Damped solar-like
oscillations
Oscillates like
a single star
8702921
9291629
3955867
10001167
57861549246715
7037405
9970396
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✦ Distances computed via
theoretical bolometric corrections,
updated KIC extinctions, & JHK
magnitudes from 2MASS
✦ No clear galactic [Fe/H] gradient
Galactic context
Southworth et al. 2005
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Pipeline
comparisons
temperature
surface
gravity
metallicity
distance
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✦ Solar-like oscillations are damped by
magnetism & tides, which often occur together
✦ Most pronounced for short-period, spotty,
synchronized and circularized systems
✦ The asteroseismic scaling relations are least
accurate for stars least like the Sun
✦ Scaling relations overestimate giant M, R
✦ These stars are references for survey pipelines
✦ Asteroseismic surveys will tend to miss active
stars and close binaries
Red giant binaries are powerful
benchmarks for asteroseismology