TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronos - take the pulse of our galactic neighbourhood. After Gaia
T2 - time domain information, masses and ages for stars
AU - Michel, Eric
AU - Haywood, Misha
AU - Famaey, Benoit
AU - Mosser, Benoit
AU - Samadi, Reza
AU - Monteiro, Mario J.p.f.g.
AU - Kjeldsen, Hans
AU - Belkacem, Kevin
AU - Miglio, Andréa
AU - Garcia, Rafael
AU - Katz, David
AU - Suarez, Juan Carlos
AU - Deheuvels, Sébastien
AU - Campante, Tiago
AU - Cunha, Margarida
AU - Aguirre, Victor Silva
AU - Ballot, Jerôme
AU - Moya, Andy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/7/31
Y1 - 2021/7/31
N2 - Understanding our Galaxy’s structure, formation, and evolution will, over the next decades, continue to benefit from the wonderful large survey by Gaia, for astrometric, kinematic, and spectroscopic characterization, and by large spectroscopic surveys for chemical characterization. The weak link for full exploitation of these data is age characterization, and stellar age estimation relies predominantly on mass estimates. The ideas presented in this White Paper shows that a seismology survey is the way out of this situation and a natural complement to existing and planned surveys. These ideas are strongly rooted in the past decade’s experience of the so-called Seismology revolution, initiated with CoRoT and Kepler. The case of red giant stars is used here as the best current illustration of what we can expect from seismology for large samples, but premises for similar developments exist in various other classes of stars covering other ranges of age or mass. Whatever the star considered, the first information provided by stellar pulsations is always related to the mean density and thus to the mass (and age). In order to satisfy the need for long-duration and all-sky coverage, we rely on a new instrumental concept which decouples integration time and sampling time. We thus propose a long (~1 year) all-sky survey which would perfectly fit between TESS, PLATO, and the Rubin Observatory (previously known as LSST) surveys to offer a time domain complement to the current and planned astrometric and spectroscopic surveys. The fine characterization of host stars is also a key aspect for the interpretation and exploitation of the various projects - anticipated in the framework of the Voyage 2050 programme - searching for atmospheric characterization of terrestrial planets or, more specifically, looking for a signature of life, in distant planets.
AB - Understanding our Galaxy’s structure, formation, and evolution will, over the next decades, continue to benefit from the wonderful large survey by Gaia, for astrometric, kinematic, and spectroscopic characterization, and by large spectroscopic surveys for chemical characterization. The weak link for full exploitation of these data is age characterization, and stellar age estimation relies predominantly on mass estimates. The ideas presented in this White Paper shows that a seismology survey is the way out of this situation and a natural complement to existing and planned surveys. These ideas are strongly rooted in the past decade’s experience of the so-called Seismology revolution, initiated with CoRoT and Kepler. The case of red giant stars is used here as the best current illustration of what we can expect from seismology for large samples, but premises for similar developments exist in various other classes of stars covering other ranges of age or mass. Whatever the star considered, the first information provided by stellar pulsations is always related to the mean density and thus to the mass (and age). In order to satisfy the need for long-duration and all-sky coverage, we rely on a new instrumental concept which decouples integration time and sampling time. We thus propose a long (~1 year) all-sky survey which would perfectly fit between TESS, PLATO, and the Rubin Observatory (previously known as LSST) surveys to offer a time domain complement to the current and planned astrometric and spectroscopic surveys. The fine characterization of host stars is also a key aspect for the interpretation and exploitation of the various projects - anticipated in the framework of the Voyage 2050 programme - searching for atmospheric characterization of terrestrial planets or, more specifically, looking for a signature of life, in distant planets.
KW - Milky way galaxy
KW - Seismology
KW - Stellar ages
KW - Time domain astrophysics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111552193&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10686-021-09733-9
DO - 10.1007/s10686-021-09733-9
M3 - Article
SN - 0922-6435
VL - 51
SP - 945
EP - 962
JO - Experimental Astronomy
JF - Experimental Astronomy
IS - 3
ER -