The Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS) of the Roman Space Telescope will take high cadence data of the Galactic bulge. We investigate the asteroseismic potential of this survey for red giants. We simulate the detectability of global asteroseismic frequencies, νmax and Δν, by modify ing Kepler data to match nominal GBTDS observing strategies, considering different noise models, observing cadences, and detection algorithms. Our baseline case, using conservative assumptions, consistently leads to asteroseismic νmax detection probabilities above 80% for red clump and red giant branch stars brighter than 16th magnitude in Roman's F146 filter. We then inject these detection probabilities into a Galaxia model of the bulge to estimate asteroseismic yields. For our nominal case, we detect 290,000 stars in total, with 185,000 detections in the bulge. Different assumptions give bulge yields from 135,000 to 349,000 stars. For stars with measured νmax, we find that we can recover Δν in 21% to 42% of red clump stars, and 69% to 92% of RGB stars. Implications for survey strategy and asteroseismic population studies are discussed more.
@article{arxiv.2503.04999,
title = {Modeling Asteroseismic Yields for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey},
author = {Trevor J. Weiss and Noah J. Downing and Marc H. Pinsonneault and Joel C. Zinn and Dennis Stello and Timothy R. Bedding and Kaili Cao and Marc Hon and Claudia Reyes and B. Scott Gaudi and Robert F. Wilson and Daniel Huber and Sanjib Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04999},
year = {2025}
}