Asteroseismic modeling of gravity modes in slowly rotating A/F stars with radiative levitation

Abstract

It has been known for several decades that transport of chemical elements is induced by the process of microscopic atomic diffusion. Yet, the effect of atomic diffusion, including radiative levitation, has hardly been studied in the context of gravity mode pulsations of core-hydrogen burning stars. In this paper, we study the difference in the properties of such modes for models with and without atomic diffusion. We perform asteroseismic modeling of two slowly rotating A- and F-type pulsators, KIC11145123 ($f_{\mathrm{rot}}\approx 0.010{\mathrm{d}}^{-1}$) and KIC9751996 ($f_{\mathrm{rot}}\approx 0.0696{\mathrm{d}}^{-1}$), respectively, based on the periods of individual gravity modes. For both stars, we find models whose g-mode periods are in very good agreement with the {\it Kepler\/} asteroseismic data, keeping in mind that the theoretical/numerical precision of present-day stellar evolution models is typically about two orders of magnitude lower than the measurement errors. Using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) we have made a comparison between our best models with and without diffusion, and found very strong evidence for signatures of atomic diffusion in the pulsations of KIC11145123. In the case of KIC9751996 the models with atomic diffusion are not able to explain the data as well as the models without it. Furthermore, we compare the observed surface abundances with those predicted by the best fitting models. The observed abundances are inconclusive for KIC9751996, while those of KIC11145123 from the literature can better be explained by a model with atomic diffusion.

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