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More than 1000 red giants have been observed by NASA/Kepler mission during a nearly continuous period of ~ 13 months. The resulting high-frequency resolution (< 0.03 muHz) allows us to study the granulation parameters of these stars. The…

The long and almost continuous observations by Kepler show clear evidence of a granulation background signal in a large sample of stars, which is interpreted as the surface manifestation of convection. It has been shown that its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Kallinger , J. De Ridder , S. Hekker , S. Mathur , B. Mosser , M. Gruberbauer , R. A. Garcia , C. Karoff , J. Ballot

A large set of stars observed by CoRoT and Kepler shows clear evidence for the presence of a stellar background, which is interpreted to arise from surface convection, i.e., granulation. These observations show that the characteristic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Samadi , K. Belkacem , H. -G. Ludwig , E. Caffau , T. L. Campante , G. R. Davies , T. Kallinger , M. N. Lund , B. Mosser , A. Baglin , S. Mathur , R. Garcia

Granulation is the observable signature of convection in envelopes of low-mass stars, forming the background in stellar power spectra. While well-studied in evolved giants, granulation on the MS has received less attention. We here study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jens R. Larsen , Mia S. Lundkvist , Martin B. Nielsen , Guy R. Davies , Yixiao Zhou , Mikkel N. Lund

In the surface layers of late-type stars, stellar convection is manifested with its typical granulation pattern due to the presence of convective motions. The resulting photospheric up- and downflows leave imprints in the observed spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-30 Zazralt Magic , Martin Asplund

Stellar oscillations and granulation in red giants are both powered by convection. Studying the wavelength dependence of their amplitudes can provide useful insights on the driving mechanism. It is also important for plans to carry out…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 K. R. Sreenivas , Timothy R. Bedding , Daniel Huber , Courtney L. Crawford , Dennis Stello , May G. Pedersen , Yaguang Li , Daniel Hey

The solar granulation is known for a long time to be a surface manifestation of convection. Thanks to the current space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler, it is now possible to observe in disk-integrated intensity the signature of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Samadi , K. Belkacem , H. -G. Ludwig

The Kepler mission has provided exquisite data to perform an ensemble asteroseismic analysis on evolved stars. In this work we systematically characterize solar-like oscillations and granulation for 16,094 oscillating red giants, using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jie Yu , Daniel Huber , Timothy R. Bedding , Dennis Stello , Marc Hon , Simon J. Murphy , Shourya Khanna

Surface granulation of the Sun is primarily a consequence of thermal transport in the outer 1 % of the radius. Its typical scale of about 1 - 2 Mm is set by the balance between convection, free-streaming radiation, and the strong density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shravan M. Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Context. It has been suggested that convection in Red Supergiant (RSG) stars gives rise to large-scale granules causing observable surface inhomogeneities. This convection is also extremely vigorous, and suspected to be one of the causes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Chiavassa , B. Plez , E. Josselin , B. Freytag

Thanks to the recent very high-precision photometry of red giants from satellites such as Kepler, precise mass and radius values as well as accurate information of evolutionary stages are already established by asteroseismic approach for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Takeda , Akito Tajitsu

3D model atmospheres for giants, dwarfs, and white dwarfs, computed with the CO5BOLD code and part of the CIFIST grid, have been used for spectroscopic and asteroseismic studies. Unlike existing plane-parallel 1D structures, these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. -E. Tremblay , H. -G. Ludwig , B. Freytag , M. Steffen , E. Caffau

Context. Theoretical predictions from models of red giant branch stars are a valuable tool for various applications in astrophysics ranging from galactic chemical evolution to studies of exoplanetary systems. Aims. We use the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Chiavassa , R. Collet , L. Casagrande , M. Asplund

When low- and intermediate-mass stars evolve off the main sequence, they expand and cool into the red giant stages of evolution, which include those associated with shell H burning (the red giant branch), core He burning (the red clump),…

High-precision photometric data from space missions have improved our understanding of stellar granulation. These observations have shown with precision the stochastic brightness fluctuations of stars across the HR diagram, allowing us to…

Stellar granulation arises from near-surface convection and is imprinted in stellar photometric time series, yet links between granulation observables and fundamental stellar properties remain underexploited. We aim to establish a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Jens R. Larsen , Mia S. Lundkvist , Guy R. Davies , Martin B. Nielsen

Context: The study of stellar structure and evolution depends crucially on accurate stellar parameters. The photometry from space telescopes has provided superb data that allowed asteroseismic characterisation of thousands of stars.…

We investigate how rotationally-constrained, deep convection might give rise to supergranulation, the largest distinct spatial scale of convection observed in the solar photosphere. While supergranulation is only weakly influenced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Nicholas A. Featherstone , Bradley W. Hindman

Photometric time series gathered by space telescopes such as CoRoT and Kepler allow to detect solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars and to measure their global seismic constraints, which can be used to infer global stellar properties…

Clear power excess in a frequency range typical for solar-type oscillations in red giants has been detected in more than 1000 stars, which have been observed during the first 138 days of the science operation of the NASA Kepler satellite.…

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