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A ground-based velocity campaign on Procyon Tim Bedding (Univ. Sydney) and about 50 others
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Procyon A angular diameter = 5.40±0.03 mas (1%; VLTI) parallax = 285.9 ± 0.9 mas (0.5%; Hipparcos) radius = 2.04±0.02 (1%) mass = 1.46±0.03 (2%; binary orbit)
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Brown et al. (1991) Martic et al. (2004) Eggenberger et al. (2005) Leccio et al. (2006) Previous velocity observations Fourier power spectra of Doppler measurements. All have power centred at about 1 mHz (15-20 minutes) 0123 Frequency (millihertz)
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n =18 What are stellar oscillations?
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p-mode oscillations are standing sound waves n =1 n =3 n =2 frequencies tell us about internal sound speed
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Power Fourier power spectrum of solar velocities: n increases →
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radial modes (ℓ =0)
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ℓ=1 ℓ= 2 ℓ= 3 ℓ > 0 (non-radial)
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Power Fourier power spectrum of solar velocities: n increases →
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ℓ=2 20 ℓ=0 ℓ=1 ℓ=3 3 n increases → = 135 Hz
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Brown et al. (1991) Martic et al. (2004) Eggenberger et al. (2005) Leccio et al. (2006) Previous velocity observations Fourier power spectra of Doppler measurements. All have power centred at about 1 mHz (15-20 minutes) 0123 Frequency (millihertz) ≈ 55 Hz
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2004
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What we knew in 2007 there is a power excess in velocity amplitude is lower than predicted theoretically agreement on ≈ 55 Hz. no agreement on frequencies, presumaby due to daily aliases/mixed modes/short mode lifetime?
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The Velocity Campaign Arentoft et al. (2008, ApJ)
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11 telescopes at 8 observatories over 25 days PROCYON P
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HARPS CORALIE McDonald Lick UCLES Okayama Tautenburg SOPHIE EMILIE SARG FIES 11 telescopes at 8 observatories over 25 days 10 days
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HARPS SOPHIE SARG
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combined
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Note: broad envelope
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Bedding et al. (ApJ,in press)
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ℓ=2 20 ℓ=0 ℓ=1 ℓ=3 3 = 135 Hz What is an echelle diagram? Here is the solar power spectrum divided into segments of width .
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Hz Sun
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BISON freq. échelle diagram l=3 l=1 l=0l=2l=0l=2 Frequency mod
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Echelle diagram of Procyon (noise-optimized weights)
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Reducing sidelobes
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possible mixed mode (narrow peak)
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Noise-optimized Sidelobe-optimized
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l=3 l=1 l=0l=2 which ridge is which?
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Do we have the correct ridge identification? l=3,1l=2,0
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Ridge structure: l=3,1l=2,0 YES!
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l=2,0l=1 Absolute model frequencuies: model (Christensen-Dalsgaard) NO!
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A new method: scaled echelle diagrams Bedding & Kjeldsen (2010, Comm. Asteroseismology)
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greyscale = Cen A Δ = Sun 0.78
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greyscale = Procyon ○=HD 49933 x 0.657 (Benomar et al. 2010) ●=HD 49385 x 0.993 (Deheuvels et al. 2010) l=1l=2,0 YES!
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500 Hz acoustic glitch at =1000s (He ionization zone) Asteroseismology using ridge spacings
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Extracting the mode frequencies
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Extracted peaks (“CLEAN”)
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The mixed mode in Procyon
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l=3, 1 l=2,0 model with 1.6Msun and Z=3% (Christensen-Dalsgaard 2004) Avoided crossings in subgiants
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Bedding et al. (in prep.)
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“C-D diagram” “p-g diagram” Christensen-Dalsgaard (1988,2004) Bedding et al. (in prep.)
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Procyon: mass = 1.46±0.03 (2%; binary orbit) Bedding et al. (in prep.)
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Lessons for SONG combining data from multiple sites works well (adjust weights to optimize noise and sidelobes) cannot afford to take 2-3 years to analyse each star! low stellar background in velocity allows detection of wider range of frequencies than may be possible with Kepler. In Procyon, broad envelope allowed us to measure He ionization glitch Kepler may not give many sun-like stars (18 Sco) or lower-mass stars ( Cen B, tau Cet) SONG will observe nearby stars with good parameters let’s SING!
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