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Probing Red Giant Interiors with g-Dominated Mixed Modes II: The Cases of KIC 6117517, KIC 9475697, KIC 10123207 and KIC 10200377

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Building on Paper~I, which constrained core overshooting to fov<0.01f_{\rm ov} < 0.01 for M<1.4 M⊙M < 1.4\,M_{\odot} and found αMLT≃2.0α_{\rm MLT} \simeq 2.0 for metal-rich red giants, we extend this analysis to four lower-mass Kepler red giants spanning a broad metallicity range: KIC~6117517, KIC~9475697, KIC~10123207, and KIC~10200377. Two complementary model grids are constructed: Grid~A fixes αMLT=2.0α_{\rm MLT} = 2.0 while varying metallicity; Grid~B adopts spectroscopic metallicities with αMLTα_{\rm MLT} as a free parameter. Grid~A successfully reproduces both asteroseismic and spectroscopic constraints for the metal-rich targets (KIC~6117517 and KIC~9475697), confirming αMLT=2.0α_{\rm MLT} = 2.0 for metal-rich red giants. For the metal-poor targets (KIC~10123207 and KIC~10200377), Grid~B yields larger mixing-length parameters of αMLT≈2.16α_{\rm MLT} \approx 2.16–2.182.18. Although only four stars are analyzed with unequal sensitivity to αMLTα_{\rm MLT}, these results suggest a tentative increase in convective efficiency toward lower metallicity, consistent with 3D hydrodynamical simulations but opposite to some 1D empirical calibrations. The best-fitting overshooting parameters (fov=0.006f_{\rm ov} = 0.006–0.0070.007) independently support the Paper~I constraint and are consistent with a mass-dependent overshooting relation. The parameter uncertainties reach 0.60.6–2.5%2.5\% in mass, 0.20.2–0.9%0.9\% in radius, 22–13%13\% in age, and below 0.6%0.6\% in helium-core mass and below 0.2%0.2\% in helium-core radius. Surface-effect corrections are negligible for g-dominated mixed modes, validating χl=1g2χ^2_{l=1g} as a robust fitting metric. For KIC~9475697, the core rotation rate is determined to be Ωcore=0.6945±0.0190 μΩ_{\rm core} = 0.6945 \pm 0.0190\,μHz from model-based trapping parameters.

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