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With the success of the Kepler and CoRoT missions, the number of stars with detected solar-like oscillations has increased by several orders of magnitude, for the first time we are able to perform large-scale ensemble asteroseismology of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Timothy R. White , Timothy R. Bedding , Dennis Stello , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Daniel Huber , Hans Kjeldsen

We present the asteroseismic analysis of 1948 F-, G- and K-type main-sequence and subgiant stars observed by the NASA {\em Kepler Mission}. We detect and characterise solar-like oscillations in 642 of these stars. This represents the…

Until the last few decades, investigations of stellar interiors had been restricted to theoretical studies only constrained by observations of their global properties and external characteristics. However, in the last thirty years the field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-01 R. A. Garcia , J. Ballot

Oscillations occur in stars of most masses and essentially all stages of evolution. Asteroseismology is the study of the frequencies and other properties of stellar oscillations, from which we can extract fundamental parameters such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hans Kjeldsen , Timothy R. Bedding , Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard

We have monitored 20 Sun-like stars in the Kepler field-of-view for excess flux with the FIES spectrograph on the Nordic Optical Telescope since the launch of Kepler spacecraft in 2009. These 20 stars were selected based on their…

Kepler is a NASA mission designed to detect exoplanets and characterize the properties of exoplanetary systems. Kepler also includes an asteroseismic programme which is being conducted through the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Kjeldsen , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , R. Handberg , T. M. Brown , R. L. Gilliland , W. J. Borucki , D. Koch

The Kepler mission, launched in March 2009, has revolutionized asteroseismology, providing detailed observations of thousands of stars. This has allowed in-depth analysis of stars ranging from compact hot subdwarfs to red giants, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

It is well known that asteroseismology is the unique technique permitting the study of the internal structure of pulsating stars using their pulsational frequencies, which is per se very important. It acquires an additional value when the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Oshagh , A. Grigahcène , O. Benomar , M. -A. Dupret , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , R. Scuflaire , N. C. Santos

Yearslong time series of high-precision brightness measurements have been assembled for thousands of stars with telescopes operating in space. Such data have allowed astronomers to measure the physics of stellar interiors via nonradial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 C. Aerts

In the past few years, the CoRoT and Kepler missions have carried out what is now called the space photometry revolution. This revolution is still ongoing thanks to K2 and will be continued by the Tess and Plato2.0 missions. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Gaël Buldgen , Daniel Reese , Marc-Antoine Dupret

Over the last decade, thanks to the successful space missions launched to detect stellar pulsations, Asteroseismology has produced an extraordinary revolution in astrophysics, unveiling a wealth of results on structural properties of stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Maria Pia Di Mauro

The space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler have opened a new era in stellar physics, especially for evolved stars, with precise asteroseismic measurements that help determine precise stellar parameters and perform ensemble astero seismology.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Benoit Mosser , Kevin Belkacem , Mathieu Vrard

The autocorrelation of an asteroseismic time series has been identified as a powerful tool capable of providing measurements of the large frequency separations. The performance of this method has been assessed and quantified by Mosser &…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-29 Benoit Mosser , Thierry Appourchaux

Since the advent of the space-based photometric missions such as CoRoT and NASA's Kepler, asteroseismology has acquired a central role in our understanding about stellar physics. The Kepler spacecraft, especially, is still releasing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Enrico Corsaro

Asteroseismology is well-established in astronomy as the gold standard for determining precise and accurate fundamental stellar properties like masses, radii, and ages. Several tools have been developed for asteroseismic analyses but many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Ashley Chontos , Daniel Huber , Maryum Sayeed , Pavadol Yamsiri

Asteroseismology of bright stars with well-determined properties from parallax measurements and interferometry can yield precise stellar ages and meaningful constraints on the composition. We substantiate this claim with an updated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Travis S. Metcalfe , Orlagh L. Creevey , Guy R. Davies

The KEYSTONE project aims to enhance our understanding of solar-like oscillators by delivering a catalogue of global asteroseismic parameters (${\Delta\nu}$ and ${\nu_{\rm max}}$) for 173 stars, comprising mainly dwarfs and subgiants,…

Over the last two decades, asteroseismology has increasingly proven to be the observational tool of choice for the study of stellar physics, aided by the high quality of data available from space-based missions such as CoRoT, Kepler, K2 and…

We report on the first asteroseismic analysis of solar-type stars observed by Kepler. Observations of three G-type stars, made at one-minute cadence during the first 33.5d of science operations, reveal high signal-to-noise solar-like…

Accurately measuring stellar ages and internal structures is challenging, but the inclusion of asteroseismic observables can substantially improve precision. However, the curse of dimensionality means this comes at a high computational cost…