Detection and Characterization of Oscillating Red Giants: First Results from the TESS Satellite

Aguirre, Víctor Silva and Stello, Dennis and Stokholm, Amalie and Mosumgaard, Jakob R. and Ball, Warrick H. and Basu, Sarbani and Bossini, Diego and Bugnet, Lisa and Buzasi, Derek and Campante, Tiago L. and Carboneau, Lindsey and Chaplin, William J. and Corsaro, Enrico and Davies, Guy R. and Elsworth, Yvonne and García, Rafael A. and Gaulme, Patrick and Hall, Oliver J. and Handberg, Rasmus and Hon, Marc and Kallinger, Thomas and Kang, Liu and Lund, Mikkel N. and Mathur, Savita and Mints, Alexey and Mosser, Benoit and Çelik Orhan, Zeynep and Rodrigues, Thaíse S. and Vrard, Mathieu and Yıldız, Mutlu and Zinn, Joel C. and Örtel, Sibel and Beck, Paul G. and Bell, Keaton J. and Guo, Zhao and Jiang, Chen and Kuszlewicz, James S. and Kuehn, Charles A. and Li, Tanda and Lundkvist, Mia S. and Pinsonneault, Marc and Tayar, Jamie and Cunha, Margarida S. and Hekker, Saskia and Huber, Daniel and Miglio, Andrea and F. G. Monteiro, Mario J. P. and Slumstrup, Ditte and Winther, Mark L. and Angelou, George and Benomar, Othman and Bódi, Attila and De Moura, Bruno L. and Deheuvels, Sébastien and Derekas, Aliz and Di Mauro, Maria Pia and Dupret, Marc-Antoine and Jiménez, Antonio and Lebreton, Yveline and Matthews, Jaymie and Nardetto, Nicolas and do Nascimento, Jose D. and Pereira, Filipe and Rodríguez Díaz, Luisa F. and Serenelli, Aldo M. and Spitoni, Emanuele and Stonkutė, Edita and Suárez, Juan Carlos and Szabó, Robert and Van Eylen, Vincent and Ventura, Rita and Verma, Kuldeep and Weiss, Achim and Wu, Tao and Barclay, Thomas and Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen and Jenkins, Jon M. and Kjeldsen, Hans and Ricker, George R. and Seager, Sara and Vanderspek, Roland (2020) Detection and Characterization of Oscillating Red Giants: First Results from the TESS Satellite. The Astrophysical Journal, 889 (2). L34. ISSN 2041-8213

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Abstract

Since the onset of the "space revolution" of high-precision high-cadence photometry, asteroseismology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for informing Galactic archeology investigations. The launch of the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has enabled seismic-based inferences to go full sky—providing a clear advantage for large ensemble studies of the different Milky Way components. Here we demonstrate its potential for investigating the Galaxy by carrying out the first asteroseismic ensemble study of red giant stars observed by TESS. We use a sample of 25 stars for which we measure their global asteroseimic observables and estimate their fundamental stellar properties, such as radius, mass, and age. Significant improvements are seen in the uncertainties of our estimates when combining seismic observables from TESS with astrometric measurements from the Gaia mission compared to when the seismology and astrometry are applied separately. Specifically, when combined we show that stellar radii can be determined to a precision of a few percent, masses to 5%-10%, and ages to the 20% level. This is comparable to the precision typically obtained using end-of-mission Kepler data.

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