http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05459
Evolved stars near the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) show solar-like oscillations with periods spanning hours to months and amplitudes ranging from $\sim$1 mmag to $\sim$100 mmag. The systematic detection of the resulting photometric variations with ground-based telescopes would enable the application of asteroseismology to a much larger and more distant sample of stars than is currently accessible with space-based telescopes such as $Kepler$ or the ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ($TESS$) mission. We present an asteroseismic analysis of M giants using data from two ground-based surveys: the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). By comparing the extracted frequencies with constraints from $Kepler$, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and Gaia we demonstrate that ground-based transient surveys allow accurate distance measurements to oscillating M giants with a precision of $\sim$15$\%$. Using stellar population synthesis models we predict that ATLAS and ASAS-SN can provide asteroseismic distances to $\sim$2$\times$10$^{6}$ galactic M giants out to typical distances of $20-50$ kpc, vastly improving the reach of Gaia and providing critical constraints for Galactic archaeology and galactic dynamics.
C. Auge, D. Huber, A. Heinze, et. al.
Fri, 13 Mar 20
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Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, submitted to AAS Journals
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