期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 515, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913907
关键词
stars: individual: Betelgeuse; stars: atmospheres; hydrodynamics; radiative transfer; techniques: interferometric
资金
- French Ministry of Higher Education through an ACI
- ANR [ANR-06-BLAN-0105]
- PNPS
- CNRS
- STFC [ST/G002916/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G002916/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-06-BLAN-0105] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Context. The red supergiant (RSG) Betelgeuse is an irregular variable star. Convection may play an important role in understanding this variability. Interferometric observations can be interpreted using sophisticated simulations of stellar convection. Aims. We compare the visibility curves and closure phases obtained from our 3D simulation of RSG convection with CO5BOLD to various interferometric observations of Betelgeuse from the optical to the H band to characterize and measure the convection pattern on this star. Methods. We use a 3D radiative-hydrodynamics (RHD) simulation to compute intensity maps in different filters and thus derive interferometric observables using the post-processing radiative transfer code OPTIM3D. The synthetic visibility curves and closure phases are compared to observations. Results. We provide a robust detection of the granulation pattern on the surface of Betelgeuse in both the optical and the H band based on excellent fits to the observed visibility points and closure phases. We determine that the Betelgeuse surface in the H band is covered by small to medium scale (5-15 mas) convection-related surface structures and a large (approximate to 30 mas) convective cell. In this spectral region, H(2)O molecules are the main absorbers and contribute to both the small structures and the position of the first null of the visibility curve (i.e., the apparent stellar radius).
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