https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716005010
Asteroseismic modelling of the Binary HD 176465
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Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciência do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, PT4150-762, Porto, Portugal
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Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 92195 Meudon, France
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Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark
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Institut für Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen Germany
⋆ e-mail: benard.nsamba@astro.up.pt
Published online: 27 October 2017
The detection and analysis of oscillations in binary star systems is critical in understanding stellar structure and evolution. This is partly because such systems have the same initial chemical composition and age. Solar-like oscillations have been detected by Kepler in both components of the asteroseismic binary HD 176465. We present an independent modelling of each star in this binary system. Stellar models generated using MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics) were fitted to both the observed individual frequencies and complementary spectroscopic parameters. The individual theoretical oscillation frequencies for the corresponding stellar models were obtained using GYRE as the pulsation code. A Bayesian approach was applied to find the probability distribution functions of the stellar parameters using AIMS (Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale) as the optimisation code. The ages of HD 176465 A and HD 176465 B were found to be 2.81 ± 0.48 Gyr and 2.52 ± 0.80 Gyr, respectively. These results are in agreement when compared to previous studies carried out using other asteroseismic modelling techniques and gyrochronology.
Key words: Asteroseismology – Stars / fundamental parameters – Stars / individual / HD 176465
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