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Differential population studies using asteroseismology: solar-like oscillating giants in CoRoT fields LRc01 and LRa01

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-12 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Solar-like oscillating giants observed by the space-borne satellites CoRoT and Kepler can be used as key tracers of stellar populations in the Milky Way. When combined with additional photometric/spectroscopic constraints, the pulsation spectra of solar-like oscillating giant stars not only reveal their radii, and hence distances, but also provide well-constrained estimates of their masses, which can be used as proxies for the ages of these evolved stars. In this contribution we provide supplementary material to the comparison we presented in Miglio et al. (2013) between populations of giants observed by CoRoT in the fields designated LRc01 and LRa01.

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@article{arxiv.1301.1515,
  title  = {Differential population studies using asteroseismology: solar-like oscillating giants in CoRoT fields LRc01 and LRa01},
  author = {A. Miglio and C. Chiappini and T. Morel and M. Barbieri and W. J. Chaplin and L. Girardi and J. Montalban and A. Noels and M. Valentini and B. Mosser and F. Baudin and L. Casagrande and L. Fossati and V. Silva Aguirre and A. Baglin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1515},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in proceedings of 40th Liege International Astrophysical Colloquium 'Ageing low-mass stars: from red giants to white dwarfs'