The effect of the centrifugal acceleration on period spacings of gravito-inertial modes in intermediate-mass stars

Abstract

The Kepler and TESS missions delivered high-precision, long-duration photometric time series for hundreds of main-sequence stars with gravito-inertial (g) pulsation modes. This high precision allows us to evaluate increasingly detailed theoretical stellar models. Recent theoretical work extended the traditional approximation of rotation (TAR), a framework to evaluate the effect of the Coriolis acceleration on g-modes, to include the effects of the centrifugal acceleration in the approximation of slightly deformed stars, which so far had mostly been neglected in asteroseismology. This extension of the TAR was conceived by rederiving the TAR in a centrifugally deformed, spheroidal coordinate system. We explore the effect of the centrifugal acceleration on g modes and assess its detectability in space-based photometry. We implement the new framework to calculate the centrifugal deformation of precomputed 1D spherical stellar structure models and compute the corresponding g-mode frequencies, assuming uniform rotation. The framework is evaluated for a grid of stellar structure models covering a relevant parameter space for observed g-mode pulsators. The centrifugal acceleration modifies the effect of the Coriolis acceleration on g modes, narrowing the equatorial band in which they are trapped. Furthermore, the centrifugal acceleration causes the pulsation periods and period spacings of the most common g modes (prograde dipole modes and r modes) to increase with values similar to the observational uncertainties in Kepler and TESS data. The effect of the centrifugal acceleration on g~modes is formally detectable in modern space photometry. Implementation of the new theoretical framework in stellar structure and pulsation codes will allow for more precise asteroseismic modelling of centrifugally deformed stars, to assess its effect on mode excitation, -trapping and -damping.

14 pages, 14 figures, 1 table. Resubmitted to A&A after a positive referee report

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