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Ages of stars: Methods and uncertainties

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

Estimating ages for stars is difficult at best, but Galactic problems have their own requirements that go beyond those for other areas of astrophysics. As in other areas, asteroseismology is helping, and in this review I discuss some of the general problems encountered and some specific to large-scale studies of the Milky Way.

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@article{arxiv.1409.2266,
  title  = {Ages of stars: Methods and uncertainties},
  author = {David R. Soderblom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.2266},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Proc. of the workshop "Asteroseismology of stellar populations in the Milky Way" (Sesto, 22-26 July 2013), Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, (eds. A. Miglio, L. Girardi, P. Eggenberger, J. Montalban)