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Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD

1 ICE-CSIC - Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona]
2 IEEC-CSIC - Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
3 MPIA - Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
4 Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
5 Institute of Astronomy [Leuven]
6 Radboud University [Nijmegen]
7 LJMU - Liverpool John Moores University
8 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
9 IAC - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
10 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
11 UC - University of California
12 OAPD - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
13 IAA - Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique [Bruxelles]
14 ESO - European Southern Observatory [Santiago]
15 UCL - University College of London [London]
16 Lund Observatory
17 UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin
18 UB - Universitat de Barcelona
19 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
20 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
21 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
22 ULL - Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP]
23 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
24 UNLP - Universidad Nacional de la Plata [Argentine]
25 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
26 University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
27 Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
28 University of Zagreb
29 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
30 H-ITS - Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien
31 Universität Heidelberg
32 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
33 Vanderbilt University [Nashville]
34 University of Groningen [Groningen]
35 University of Warwick [Coventry]
36 Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck]
Victor Silva Aguirre
Keivan Stassun

Résumé

The mass of a star is the most fundamental parameter for its structure, evolution, and final fate. It is particularly important for any kind of stellar archaeology and characterization of exoplanets. There exist a variety of methods in astronomy to estimate or determine it. In this review we present a significant number of such methods, beginning with the most direct and model-independent approach using detached eclipsing binaries. We then move to more indirect and model-dependent methods, such as the quite commonly used isochrone or stellar track fitting. The arrival of quantitative asteroseismology has opened a completely new approach to determine stellar masses and to complement and improve the accuracy of other methods. We include methods for different evolutionary stages, from the pre-main sequence to evolved (super)giants and final remnants. For all methods uncertainties and restrictions will be discussed. We provide lists of altogether more than 200 benchmark stars with relative mass accuracies between [0.3,2]% for the covered mass range of M∈[0.1,16]M⊙, 75% of which are stars burning hydrogen in their core and the other 25% covering all other evolved stages. We close with a recommendation how to combine various methods to arrive at a “mass-ladder” for stars.
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hal-03243472 , version 1 (16-06-2021)

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Aldo Serenelli, Achim Weiss, Conny Aerts, George Angelou, David Baroch, et al.. Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD. Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021, 29 (1), pp.4. ⟨10.1007/s00159-021-00132-9⟩. ⟨hal-03243472⟩
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