Title
Precise determination of stellar parameters of the ZZ Ceti and DAZ white dwarf GD 133 through asteroseismology
Date Issued
01 July 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fu J.N.
Vauclair G.
Su J.
Fox MacHado L.
Kim S.L.
Cang T.Q.
Li C.
Niu H.B.
Xue H.F.
Li Y.
Jiang X.J.
Michel R.
Alvarez M.
Dolez N.
Ma L.
Esamdin A.
Liu J.Z.
Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides, Observatoire de Paris
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
An increasing number of white dwarf stars shows atmospheric chemical composition polluted by heavy elements accreted from debris disc material. The existence of such debris discs strongly suggests the presence of one or more planet(s) whose gravitational interaction with rocky planetesimals is responsible for their disruption by tidal effect. The ZZ Ceti pulsator and polluted DAZ white dwarf GD 133 are good candidates for searching such a potential planet. We started in 2011 a photometric follow-up of its pulsations. As a result of this work in progress, we used the data gathered from 2011 to 2015 to make an asteroseismological analysis of GD 133, providing the star parameters from the best-fitting model with M/M· = 0.630 ± 0.002, Teff = 12 400 ± 70 K, log(MHe/M) = -2.00 ± 0.02, log(MH/M) = -4.50 ± 0.02, and determining a rotation period of ≈7 d.
Start page
3560
End page
3568
Volume
486
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85071932328
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Resource of which it is part
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN of the container
00358711
Source funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Sponsor(s)
We thank the referee, Dr. Pierre Bergeron, for his suggestions to improve the manuscript. J-NF acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through the grants 11673003 and 11833002. GV acknowledges financial support from ’Programme National de Physique Stellaire’ (PNPS) of CNRS/INSU, France and from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the grant 11673003. JS acknowledges financial support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under the grant number 2015M570960 and support from Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the grant number OP201406. The data used in this paper were partially acquired using the RATIR instrument, funded by the University of California (UC) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), on the 1.5 meter telescope at Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, San Pedro Mártir, operated and maintained by OAN-SPM and IA-UNAM. LFM and RM acknowledge the financial support from the UNAM under grant PAPIIT IN100918.
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