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Small-amplitude Red Giants Elucidate the Nature of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Standard Candle
| العنوان: | Small-amplitude Red Giants Elucidate the Nature of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Standard Candle |
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| المؤلفون: | Richard I. Anderson, Nolan W. Koblischke, Laurent Eyer |
| المصدر: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol 963, Iss 2, p L43 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | IOP Publishing, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Standard candles, Stellar distance, Red giant tip, Pulsating variable stars, Giant stars, Hubble constant, Astrophysics, QB460-466 |
| الوصف: | The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is an important standard candle for determining luminosity distances. Although several 10 ^5 small-amplitude red giant stars (SARGs) have been discovered, variability was previously considered irrelevant for the TRGB as a standard candle. Here, we show that all stars near the TRGB are SARGs that follow several period–luminosity sequences, of which sequence A is younger than sequence B as predicted by stellar evolution. We measure apparent TRGB magnitudes, m _TRGB , in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using Sobel filters applied to photometry from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment and the ESA Gaia mission, and we identify several weaknesses in a recent LMC-based TRGB calibration used to measure the Hubble constant. We consider four samples: all red giants (RGs), SARGs, and sequences A and B. The B sequence is best suited for measuring distances to old RG populations, with M _F814W,0 = −4.025 ± 0.014(stat.) ± 0.033(syst.) mag assuming the LMC’s geometric distance. Control of systematics is demonstrated using detailed simulations. Population diversity affects m _TRGB at a level exceeding the stated precision: the SARG and A-sequence samples yield 0.039 and 0.085 mag fainter (at 5 σ significance) m _TRGB values, respectively. Ensuring equivalent RG populations is crucial to measuring accurate TRGB distances. Additionally, luminosity function smoothing (∼0.02 mag) and edge detection response weighting (as much as −0.06 mag) can further bias TRGB measurements, with the latter introducing a tip-contrast relation. We are optimistic that variable RGs will enable further improvements to the TRGB as a standard candle. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2041-8213 2041-8205 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2041-8205 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ad284d |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/dff3c56e58a24af1841aacb64e23b1f5 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.ff3c56e58a24af1841aacb64e23b1f5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ad284d |