Title
APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Pinsonneault, Marc H.
Zinn, Joel C.
Tayar, Jamie
Serenelli, Aldo
Garcia, Rafael A.
Mathur, Savita
Vrard, Mathieu
Elsworth, Yvonne P.
Mosser, Benoit
Stello, Dennis
Bell, Keaton J.
Bugnet, Lisa
Gaulme, Patrick
Hekker, Saskia
Hon, Marc
Huber, Daniel
Kallinger, Thomas
Cao, Kaili
Johnson, Jennifer A.
Liagre, Bastien
Patton, Rachel A.
Santos, Angela R. G.
Basu, Sarbani
Beck, Paul G.
Beers, Timothy C.
Chaplin, William J.
Cunha, Katia
Frinchaboy, Peter M.
Godoy-Rivera, Diego
Holtzman, Jon A.
Jonsson, Henrik
Meszaros, Szabolcs
Reyes, Claudia
Rix, Hans-Walter
Shetrone, Matthew
Smith, Verne V.
Spoo, Taylor
Stassun, Keivan G.
Wang, Ji
DOI
10.48550/arXiv.2410.00102
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 $L$ and spectroscopic $T_{\rm eff}$. 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 $9.14 \pm 0.05 ({\rm ran}) \pm 0.9 ({\rm sys})$ 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.
Subjects
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics