WorksPhysics and Astronomy
Probing Red Giant Interiors with g-Dominated Mixed Modes II: The Cases of KIC 6117517, KIC 9475697, KIC 10123207 and KIC 10200377
Abstract · v1
Building on Paper~I, which constrained core overshooting to for and found 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 while varying metallicity; Grid~B adopts spectroscopic metallicities with as a free parameter. Grid~A successfully reproduces both asteroseismic and spectroscopic constraints for the metal-rich targets (KIC~6117517 and KIC~9475697), confirming for metal-rich red giants. For the metal-poor targets (KIC~10123207 and KIC~10200377), Grid~B yields larger mixing-length parameters of –. Although only four stars are analyzed with unequal sensitivity to , 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 (–) independently support the Paper~I constraint and are consistent with a mass-dependent overshooting relation. The parameter uncertainties reach – in mass, – in radius, – in age, and below in helium-core mass and below in helium-core radius. Surface-effect corrections are negligible for g-dominated mixed modes, validating as a robust fitting metric. For KIC~9475697, the core rotation rate is determined to be Hz from model-based trapping parameters.
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