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Understanding Systematics in ZZ Ceti Model Fitting to Enable Differential Seismology

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-10-05 v1

Abstract

We are conducting a large spectroscopic survey of over 130 Southern ZZ Cetis with the Goodman Spectrograph on the SOAR Telescope. Because it employs a single instrument with high UV throughput, this survey will both improve the signal-to-noise of the sample of SDSS ZZ Cetis and provide a uniform dataset for model comparison. We are paying special attention to systematics in the spectral fitting and quantify three of those systematics here. We show that relative positions in the logg\log{g}-TeffT_{\rm eff} plane are consistent for these three systematics.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00738,
  title  = {Understanding Systematics in ZZ Ceti Model Fitting to Enable Differential Seismology},
  author = {J. T. Fuchs and Bart H. Dunlap and J. C. Clemens and J. A. Meza and E. Dennihy and D. Koester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00738},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the ASP Conference Series proceedings of "20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs," held at the University of Warwick, UK on July 25-29th, 2016