Period-luminosity relations in evolved red giants explained by solar-like oscillations

Abstract

Solar-like oscillations in red giants have been investigated with CoRoT and Kepler, while pulsations in more evolved M giants have been studied with ground-based microlensing surveys. After 3.1 years of observation with Kepler, it is now possible to make a link between these different observations of semi-regular variables. We aim to identify period-luminosity sequences in evolved red giants identified as semi-regular variables. Then, we investigate the consequences of the comparison of ground-based and space-borne observations. We have first measured global oscillation parameters of evolved red giants observed with Kepler with the envelope autocorrelation function method. We then used an extended form of the universal red giant oscillation pattern, extrapolated to very low frequency, to fully identify their oscillations. From the link between red giant oscillations observed by Kepler and period-luminosity sequences, we have identified these relations in evolved red giants as radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations. We were able to expand scaling relations at very low frequency. This helped us to identify the different sequences of period-luminosity relations, and allowed us to propose a calibration of the K magnitude with the observed frequency large separation. Interpreting period-luminosity relations in red giants in terms of solar-like oscillations allows us to investigate, with a firm physical basis, the time series obtained from ground-based microlensing surveys. This can be done with an analytical expression that describes the low-frequency oscillation spectra. The different behavior of oscillations at low frequency, with frequency separations scaling only approximately with the square root of the mean stellar density, can be used to address precisely the physics of the semi-regular variables.

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