English

The K2 Galactic Archaeology Program Data Release 3: Age-abundance patterns in C1-C8 and C10-C18

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2022-03-11 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present the third and final data release of the K2 Galactic Archaeology Program (K2 GAP) for Campaigns C1-C8 and C10-C18. We provide asteroseismic radius and mass coefficients, κR\kappa_R and κM\kappa_M, for 19,000\sim 19,000 red giant stars, which translate directly to radius and mass given a temperature. As such, K2 GAP DR3 represents the largest asteroseismic sample in the literature to date. K2 GAP DR3 stellar parameters are calibrated to be on an absolute parallactic scale based on Gaia DR2, with red giant branch and red clump evolutionary state classifications provided via a machine-learning approach. Combining these stellar parameters with GALAH DR3 spectroscopy, we determine asteroseismic ages with precisions of 2030%\sim 20-30\% and compare age-abundance relations to Galactic chemical evolution models among both low- and high-α\alpha populations for α\alpha, light, iron-peak, and neutron-capture elements. We confirm recent indications in the literature of both increased Ba production at late Galactic times, as well as significant contribution to r-process enrichment from prompt sources associated with, e.g., core-collapse supernovae. With an eye toward other Galactic archaeology applications, we characterize K2 GAP DR3 uncertainties and completeness using injection tests, suggesting K2 GAP DR3 is largely unbiased in mass/age and with uncertainties of 2.9%(stat.)±0.1%(syst.)2.9\%\,(\rm{stat.})\,\pm0.1\%\,(\rm{syst.}) & 6.7%(stat.)±0.3%(syst.)6.7\%\,(\rm{stat.})\,\pm0.3\%\,(\rm{syst.}) in κR\kappa_R & κM\kappa_M for red giant branch stars and 4.7%(stat.)±0.3%(syst.)4.7\%\,(\rm{stat.})\,\pm0.3\%\,(\rm{syst.}) & 11%(stat.)±0.9%(syst.)11\%\,(\rm{stat.})\,\pm0.9\%\,(\rm{syst.}) for red clump stars. We also identify percent-level asteroseismic systematics, which are likely related to the time baseline of the underlying data, and which therefore should be considered in TESS asteroseismic analysis.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.05455,
  title  = {The K2 Galactic Archaeology Program Data Release 3: Age-abundance patterns in C1-C8 and C10-C18},
  author = {Joel C. Zinn and Dennis Stello and Yvonne Elsworth and Rafael A. García and Thomas Kallinger and Savita Mathur and Benoît Mosser and Marc Hon and Lisa Bugnet and Caitlin Jones and Claudia Reyes and Sanjib Sharma and Ralph Schönrich and Jack T. Warfield and Rodrigo Luger and Andrew Vanderburg and Chiaki Kobayashi and Marc H. Pinsonneault and Jennifer A. Johnson and Daniel Huber and Sven Buder and Meridith Joyce and Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Luca Casagrande and Geraint F. Lewis and Andrea Miglio and Thomas Nordlander and Guy R. Davies and Gayandhi De Silva and William J. Chaplin and Victor Silva Aguirre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05455},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Published in ApJ; machine-readable tables available through the open access online journal article

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