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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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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

Accurate and precise values of radii and masses of stars are needed to correctly estimate properties of extrasolar planets. We examine the effect of uncertainties in stellar model parameters on estimates of the masses, radii and average…

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We present stellar properties (mass, age, radius, distances) of 57 stars from a seismic inference using full-length data sets from Kepler. These stars comprise active stars, planet-hosts, solar-analogs, and binary systems. We validate the…

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

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

Seismology applied to giant planets could drastically change our understanding of their deep interiors, as it has happened with the Earth, the Sun, and many main-sequence and evolved stars. The study of giant planets' composition is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-08 Patrick Gaulme , Benoit Mosser , Francois-Xavier Schmider , Tristan Guillot , Jason Jackiewicz

Red-giant stars are emerging as one of the most interesting areas of space asteroseismology. Even a relatively basic analysis leads to the determination of the global parameters of the stars, such as their mass and radius, and the very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-30 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

One of the great challenges in understanding stars is measuring their masses. The best methods for measuring stellar masses include binary interaction, asteroseismology and stellar evolution models, but these methods are not ideal for red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Hilding R. Neilson , Fabien Baron , Ryan Norris , Brian Kloppenborg , John B. Lester

Asteroseismology provides powerful means to probe stellar interiors. The oscillations frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles. Since these are tightly linked with the mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yveline Lebreton , Josefina Montalban

Asteroseismology is the study of resonant oscillations of stars to infer their internal structure and dynamics. It is also a powerful tool for precisely determining stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity, and age. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Nipun Ghanghas , Siddharth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Praneeth Netrapalli , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Stars are massive resonators that may be used as gravitational-wave (GW) detectors with isotropic sensitivity. New insights on stellar physics are being made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by the observation of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Tiago L. Campante , Ilídio Lopes , Diego Bossini , Andrea Miglio , William J. Chaplin

High precision and long-lasting \emph{Kepler} data enabled us to estimate stellar properties with asteroseismology as an accurate tool. We performed asteroseismic analysis on six solar-like stars observed by the \emph{Kepler} mission: KIC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-23 Yaguang Li , Minghao Du , Bohan Xie , Zhijia Tian , Shaolan Bi , Tanda Li , Yaqian Wu , Kang Liu

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…

The unparalleled photometric data obtained by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has led to improved understanding of red-giant stars and binary stars. We discuss the characterization of known eccentric system, containing a solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-23 P. G. Beck , K. Hambleton , J. Vos , T. Kallinger , R. A. Garcia , S. Mathur , K. Houmani

High precision photometry as performed by the CoRoT and Kepler satellites on-board instruments has allowed to detect stellar oscillations over the whole HR diagram. Oscillation frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yveline Lebreton

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

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

Asteroseismology has been extremely successful in determining the properties of stars in different evolutionary stages with a remarkable level of precision. However, to fully exploit its potential, robust methods for estimating stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Silva Aguirre , L. Casagrande , S. Basu , T. L. Campante , W. J. Chaplin , D. Huber , A. Miglio , A. M. Serenelli , KASC WG#1

Red-giant stars are proving to be an incredible source of information for testing models of stellar evolution, as asteroseismology has opened up a window into their interiors. Such insights are a direct result of the unprecedented data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-15 Patrick Gaulme