Understanding Systematics in ZZ Ceti Model Fitting to Enable Differential Seismology


Abstract in English

We are conducting a large spectroscopic survey of over 130 Southern ZZ Cetis with the Goodman Spectrograph on the SOAR Telescope. Because it employs a single instrument with high UV throughput, this survey will both improve the signal-to-noise of the sample of SDSS ZZ Cetis and provide a uniform dataset for model comparison. We are paying special attention to systematics in the spectral fitting and quantify three of those systematics here. We show that relative positions in the $log{g}$-$T_{rm eff}$ plane are consistent for these three systematics.

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