Seismic analysis of 70 Ophiuchi A: A new quantity proposed

The basic intent of this paper is to model 70 Ophiuchi A using the latest asteroseismic observations as complementary constraints and to determine the fundamental parameters of the star. Additionally, we propose a new quantity to lift the degeneracy between the initial chemical composition and stellar age. Using the Yale stellar evolution code (YREC7), we construct a series of stellar evolutionary tracks for the mass range $M$ = 0.85 -- 0.93 $M_{\odot}$ with different composition $Y_{i}$ (0.26 -- 0.30) and $Z_{i}$ (0.017 -- 0.023). Along these tracks, we select a grid of stellar model candidates that fall within the error box in the HR diagram to calculate the theoretical frequencies, the large- and small- frequency separations using the Guenther's stellar pulsation code. Following the asymptotic formula of stellar $p$-modes, we define a quantity $r_{01}$ which is correlated with stellar age. Also, we test it by theoretical adiabatic frequencies of many models. Many detailed models of 70 Ophiuchi A have been listed in Table 3. By combining all non-asteroseismic observations available for 70 Ophiuchi A with these seismological data, we think that Model 60, Model 125 and Model 126, listed in Table 3, are the optimum models presently. Meanwhile, we predict that the radius of this star is about 0.860 -- 0.865 $R_{\odot}$ and the age is about 6.8 -- 7.0 Gyr with mass 0.89 -- 0.90 $M_{\odot}$. Additionally, we prove that the new quantity $r_{01}$ can be a useful indicator of stellar age.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, accepted by New Astronom

Asteroseismic study of solar-like stars: A method of estimating stellar age

Asteroseismology, as a tool to use the indirect information contained in stellar oscillations to probe the stellar interiors, is an active field of research presently. Stellar age, as a fundamental property of star apart from its mass, is most difficult to estimate. In addition, the estimating of stellar age can provide the chance to study the time evolution of astronomical phenomena. In our poster, we summarize our previous work and further present a method to determine age of low-mass main-sequence star.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figures, submitted to IAUS25

Fluorescent species of 7-azaindole and 7-azatryptophan in water

A study of the fluorescence lifetimes and quantum yields of 7-azaindole and its methylated derivatives NImethyl- Famindole (1 M7AI) and 7-methyl-7H-pyrrolo[ 2,341 pyridine (7M7AI) in water is performed in order to explain the observation that the fluorescence spectrum of 7-azaindole apparently consists of one band (A, = 386 nm) whereas in alcohols the spectrum is bimodal (e.g., for methanol, A,, = 374, 505 nm). Careful measurements of the fluorescence decay as a function of emission wavelength indicate a small amplitude of an -70-ps decaying component at the bluer wavelengths and a rising component of the same duration at the redder wavelengths. The small amplitude component, which comprises no more than 20% of the fluorescence decay, is attributed to excited-state tautomerization that is mediated by the solvent. Particular attention is paid to the pH dependence of the fluorescence lifetimes and yields. We propose that upon tautomerization the basic l-nitrogen (NIo)f 7-azaindole is rapidly protonated givingrise to a species whose emission maximum is at -440 nm. The fluorescence emission maximum and lifetime of 7-azaindole is dominated by the 80% of the solute molecules that are blocked by unfavorable solvation from executing excited-state tautomerization. It is proposed that 210 ns is required for the surrounding water molecules to attain a configuration about 7-azaindole that is propitious for tautomerization

Probing Solvation by Alcohols and Water with 7-Azaindole

The nonradiative pathways of 7-azaindole are extremely sensitive to solvent. In alcohols, 7-azaindole executes an excited-state double-proton transfer. In water, this tautomerization is frustrated. Proton inventory experiments suggest a concerted double-proton transfer in the alcohols and point to another nonradiative process in water. We propose the following idealized picture. Whereas at room temperature 7-azaindole can form a cyclic hydrogen-bonded intermediate with a single alcohol molecule facilitating tautomerization, in water more than one solvent molecule coordinates to the solute and thus prohibits the concerted process. More detailed measurements, however, indicate that water and alcohols do not solvate 7-azaindole in fundamentally different ways, but rather that they represent two extremes of the same phenomenon