2024MNRAS.527.7974H -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 527, 7974-7993 (2024/January-3)
First asteroseismic analysis of the globular cluster M80: multiple populations and stellar mass-loss.
HOWELL M., CAMPBELL S.W., STELLO D. and DE SILVA G.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
Asteroseismology provides a new avenue for accurately measuring the masses of evolved globular cluster (GC) stars. We present the first detections of solar-like oscillations in 47 red giant branch (RGB) and early asymptotic giant branch (EAGB) stars in the metal-poor GC M80; only the second with measured seismic masses. We investigate two areas of stellar evolution and GC science: multiple populations and stellar mass-loss. We detect a distinct bimodality in the EAGB mass distribution. We suggest that this could be due to sub-population membership. If confirmed in future work with spectroscopy, it would be the first direct measurement of a mass difference between sub-populations. A mass difference was not detected between the sub-populations in our RGB sample. We instead measured an average RGB mass of $0.782\pm 0.009~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }$, which we interpret as the average of the sub-populations. Differing mass-loss rates on the RGB have been proposed as the second parameter that could explain the horizontal branch morphology variations between GCs. We calculated an integrated RGB mass-loss separately for each sub-population: $0.12\pm 0.02~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }$ (SP1) and $0.25\pm 0.02~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }$ (SP2). Thus, SP2 stars appear to have enhanced mass-loss on the RGB. Mass-loss is thought to scale with metallicity, which we confirm by comparing our results to a higher metallicity GC, M4. Finally, our study shows the robustness of the Δν-independent mass scaling relation in the low-metallicity (and low surface gravity) regime.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
asteroseismology - stars: low-mass - stars: mass-loss - stars: oscillations - galaxies: star clusters: individual: NGC 6093 (M80)
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