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Frequencies of acoustic and mixed modes in red giant stars are now determined with high precision thanks to the long continuous observations provided by the NASA Kepler mission. Here we consider the eigenfrequencies of nineteen…

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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.…

Contents: So far, red giant oscillations have been studied from radial velocity and/or light curve variations, which reveal frequencies of the oscillation modes. To characterise radial and non-radial oscillations, line profile variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Hekker , C. Aerts , J. De Ridder , F. Carrier

We are entering a golden era for stellar physics driven by satellite and telescope observations of unprecedented quality and scope. New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 William J. Chaplin , Andrea Miglio

Context. Observations and analysis of solar-type oscillations in red-giant stars is an emerging aspect of asteroseismic analysis with a number of open questions yet to be explored. Although stochastic oscillations have previously been…

Mass loss by red giants is an important process to understand the final stages of stellar evolution and the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. Mass-loss rates are thought to be controlled by pulsation-enhanced dust-driven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Jie Yu , Saskia Hekker , Timothy R. Bedding , Dennis Stello , Daniel Huber , Laurent Gizon , Shourya Khanna , Shaolan Bi

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

Asteroseismology has proven to be an excellent tool to determine not only the global stellar properties with a good precision but also to infer stellar structure, dynamics, and evolution for a large sample of Kepler stars. Prior to the…

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Robust age estimates of red giant stars are now possible thanks to the precise inference of their mass based on asteroseismic constraints. However, there are cases where such age estimates can be highly precise yet very inaccurate. An…

Red giant stars present mixed modes, which behave as pressure modes in the convective envelope and as gravity modes in the radiative interior. This mixed character allows to probe the physical conditions in their core. With the advent of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Charlotte Gehan , Benoît Mosser , Eric Michel

Red giants are increasingly used as stellar population tracers due to their well-understood evolution and the availability of asteroseismic observables. However, stellar binarity can alter observable properties and introduce strong biases.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Paul G. Beck

We aim to describe the oscillation power excess observed in Kepler red giants, and to investigate empirical scaling relations governing these parameters. From these scalings relations, we derive new physical properties of red giant…

Internal stellar magnetic fields are inaccessible to direct observations and little is known about their amplitude, geometry and evolution. We demonstrate that strong magnetic fields in the cores of red giant stars can be identified with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 Jim Fuller , Matteo Cantiello , Dennis Stello , Rafael A. Garcia , Lars Bildsten

In the mixed-mode asteroseismology of subgiants and red giants, the coupling between the p- and g-mode cavities must be understood well in order to derive localised estimates of interior rotation from measurements of mode multiplet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 J. M. Joel Ong , Charlotte Gehan

The NASA satellite Kepler has gathered about 1420 days-long photometric time series for more than 20000 red giant stars. For about 6600 of them also APOGEE spectroscopic parameters are available, making the sample of high interest for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 T. Kallinger

Asteroseismology of solar-type stars is an important tool for constraining stellar parameters and internal structure. Several frequency combinations are largely used for comparisons between models and observations. In particular, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Soriano , S. Vauclair

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

Recent observational studies of red giant stars have estimated the visibility of their mixed oscillation modes, which is a proxy of the average energy of these modes. Among other things, they demonstrated that although the damping rate of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Jonas Müller , Quentin Coppée , Jordan Van Beeck , Tobias van Lier , Saskia Hekker

The high-frequency resolution of the four-year $\textit{Kepler}$ time series allows detailed study of seismic modes in luminous giants. Seismic observables help infer interior structures via comparisons with stellar models. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 G. Dréau , Y. Lebreton , B. Mosser , D. Stello