We report on the ground-based follow-up program of spectroscopic and photometric observations of solar-like asteroseismic targets for the Kepler space mission. These stars constitute a large group of more than thousand objects which are the subject of an intensive study of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Working Group 1 (KASC WG-1). The main goal of this coordinated research is the determination of the fundamental stellar atmospheric parameters, which are used for the computing of their asteroseismic models, as well as for the verification of the Kepler Input Catalogue (KIC).
@article{arxiv.1005.0986,
title = {Asteroseismology of Solar-type stars with Kepler III. Ground-based Data},
author = {Joanna Molenda-Zakowicz and Hans Bruntt and Sergio Sousa and Antonio Frasca and Katia Biazzo and Daniel Huber and Mike Ireland and Tim Bedding and Dennis Stello and Katrien Uytterhoeven and Stefan Dreizler and Peter De Cat and Maryline Briquet and Giovanni Catanzaro and Chistoffer Karoff and Soeren Frandsen and Loredana Spezzi and Claude Catala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0986},
year = {2015}
}