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Thanks to the high quality data of space missions, the detection of mixed modes has become possible in numerous stars. In this work, we investigate how the mixing character of dipolar mixed modes changes with stellar evolution, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 C. Jiang , M. Cunha , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , QS. Zhang

The internal properties of stars in the red-giant phase undergo significant changes on relatively short timescales. Long near-uninterrupted high-precision photometric timeseries observations from dedicated space missions such as CoRoT and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Hekker , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

With recent advances in asteroseismology it is now possible to peer into the cores of red giants, potentially providing a way to study processes such as nuclear burning and mixing through their imprint as sharp structural variations --…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. S. Cunha , D. Stello , P. P. Avelino , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , R. H. D. Townsend

From its surface properties it can be difficult to determine whether a red-giant star is in its helium-core-burning phase or only burning hydrogen in a shell around an inert helium core. Stars in either of these stages can have similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Saskia Hekker , Yvonne Elsworth , Sarbani Basu , Earl Bellinger

Determining the ages of red-giant stars is a key problem in stellar astrophysics. One of the difficulties in this determination is to know the evolutionary state of the individual stars -- i.e. have they started to burn Helium in their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yvonne Elsworth , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Guy Davies

The space mission Kepler provides us with long and uninterrupted photometric time series of red giants. We are now able to probe the rotational behaviour in their deep interiors using the observations of mixed modes. We aim to measure the…

Context. The large quantity of high-quality asteroseismic data that obtained from space-based photometric missions and the accuracy of the resulting frequencies motivate a careful consideration of the accuracy of computed oscillation…

Asteroseismology has emerged as a powerful tool to unravel the intricate relationships between evolved stars and their planetary systems. In this study, we leverage this technique to investigate the evolutionary stages of five exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Wen-Xu Lin , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Wen-Ping Liao , Fu-Xing Li , Xiang-Dong Shi , Lin-Jia Li , Er-Gang Zhao

Tens of thousands of red giant stars in the Kepler data exhibit solar-like oscillations. Their oscillations enable us to study the internal physics from core to surface, such as differential rotation. However, envelope rotation rates have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Gang Li , Sebastien Deheuvels , Jerome Ballot

Asteroseismology, the study of stellar oscillations, and stellar modeling both offer profound insights into the fundamental properties and evolution of stars. With pySYD, a new open-source Python package, we were able to constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Sophia Grusnis , Jamie Tayar , Diego Godoy-Rivera

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

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

The clear detection with CoRoT and KEPLER of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in many red giants paves the way to seismic inferences on the structure of such stars. We present an overview of the properties of the adiabatic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Montalbán , A. Miglio , A. Noels , R. Scuflaire , P. Ventura

The space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler have provided a large amount of precise photometric data. Among the stars observed, red giants show a rich oscillation pattern that allows their precise characterization. Long-duration observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 M. Vrard , B. Mosser , C. Barban , K. Belkacem , Y. Elsworth , T. Kallinger , S. Hekker , R. Samadi , P. G. Beck

Asteroseismology allows us to probe stellar interiors. Mixed modes can be used to probe the physical conditions in red giant cores. However, we still need to identify the physical mechanisms that transport angular momentum inside red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 C. Gehan , B. Mosser , E. Michel , R. Samadi , T. Kallinger

Asteroseismology with the space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler provides a powerful mean of testing the modeling of transport processes in stars. Rotational splittings are currently measured for a large number of red giant stars and can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Goupil , B. Mosser , J. P. Marques , R. M. Ouazzani , K. Belkacem , Y. Lebreton , R. Samadi

Most current models of low mass red giant stars do not reproduce the observed position of the red giant branch luminosity bump, a diagnostic of the maximum extent of the convective envelope during the first dredge up. Global asteroseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Christopher J. Lindsay , J. M. Joel Ong , Sarbani Basu

This paper reports estimated stellar parameters of 1,153 Kepler red giant branch stars determined with asteroseismic modeling. We use radial-mode oscillation frequencies, gravity-mode period spacings, Gaia luminosities, and spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Yingxiang Wang , Tanda Li , Shaolan Bi , Timothy R. Bedding , Yaguang Li

The clear detection with CoRoT and KEPLER of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in many red giants paves the way to seismic inferences on the structure of such stars. We present an overview of the properties of the adiabatic…

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