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APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2025-12-09 v1

Abstract

In the third APOKASC catalog, we present data for the complete sample of 15,808 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and Kepler asteroseismology. We used ten independent asteroseismic analysis techniques and anchor our system on fundamental radii derived from Gaia LL and spectroscopic TeffT_{\rm eff}. We provide evolutionary state, asteroseismic surface gravity, mass, radius, age, and the spectroscopic and asteroseismic measurements used to derive them for 12,418 stars. This includes 10,036 exceptionally precise measurements, with median fractional uncertainties in \nmax, \dnu, mass, radius and age of 0.6\%, 0.6\%, 3.8\%, 1.8\%, and 11.1\% respectively. We provide more limited data for 1,624 additional stars which either have lower quality data or are outside of our primary calibration domain. Using lower red giant branch (RGB) stars, we find a median age for the chemical thick disk of 9.14±0.05(ran)±0.9(sys)9.14 \pm 0.05 ({\rm ran}) \pm 0.9 ({\rm sys}) Gyr with an age dispersion of 1.1 Gyr, consistent with our error model. We calibrate our red clump (RC) mass loss to derive an age consistent with the lower RGB and provide asymptotic GB and RGB ages for luminous stars. We also find a sharp upper age boundary in the chemical thin disk. We find that scaling relations are precise and accurate on the lower RGB and RC, but they become more model dependent for more luminous giants and break down at the tip of the RGB. We recommend the usage of multiple methods, calibration to a fundamental scale, and the usage of stellar models to interpret frequency spacings.

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@article{arxiv.2410.00102,
  title  = {APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields},
  author = {Marc H. Pinsonneault and Joel C. Zinn and Jamie Tayar and Aldo Serenelli and Rafael A. Garcia and Savita Mathur and Mathieu Vrard and Yvonne P. Elsworth and Benoit Mosser and Dennis Stello and Keaton J. Bell and Lisa Bugnet and Enrico Corsaro and Patrick Gaulme and Saskia Hekker and Marc Hon and Daniel Huber and Thomas Kallinger and Kaili Cao and Jennifer A. Johnson and Bastien Liagre and Rachel A. Patton and Angela R. G. Santos and Sarbani Basu and Paul G. Beck and Timothy C. Beers and William J. Chaplin and Katia Cunha and Peter M. Frinchaboy and Leo Girardi and Diego Godoy-Rivera and Jon A. Holtzman and Henrik Jonsson and Szabolcs Meszaros and Claudia Reyes and Hans-Walter Rix and Matthew Shetrone and Verne V. Smith and Taylor Spoo and Keivan G. Stassun and Ji Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00102},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

43 pages, 25 figures, submitted ApJSupp. Comments welcome. Data tables available on request from [email protected]