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Asteroseismology, i.e. the study of the internal structures of stars via their global oscillations, is a valuable tool to obtain stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity and mean density. These parameters can be obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Hekker , Y. Elsworth , S. Basu , A. Mazumdar , V. Silva Aguirre , W. J. Chaplin

How important is an independent diameter measurement for the determination of stellar parameters of solar-type stars? When coupled with seismic observables, how well can we determine the stellar mass? If we can determine the radius of the…

We investigate different amplitude scaling relations adopted for the asteroseismology of stars that show solar-like oscillations. Amplitudes are among the most challenging asteroseismic quantities to handle because of the large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Corsaro , H. -E. Fröhlich , A. Bonanno , D. Huber , T. R. Bedding , O. Benomar , J. De Ridder , D. Stello

Asteroseismic scaling relations can provide high-precision measurements of mass and radius for red giant (RG) stars displaying solar-like oscillations. Their accuracy can be validated and potentially improved using independent and accurate…

Properties of stars undergoing pulsation such as the well known root-mean-density scaling relation can be useful when trying to match the observed properties of a particular star. It is often assumed that this relation is valid for p mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Diego Castañeda , Robert G. Deupree

Understanding differential rotation of Sun-like stars is of great importance for insight into the angular momentum transport in these stars. One means of gaining such information is that of asteroseismology. By a forward modeling approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Mikkel N. Lund , Mark S. Miesch , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

The study of stellar oscillations - asteroseismology - has revolutionized our understanding of the physical properties of the Sun, and similar potential for other stars has been demonstrated in recent years. In particular, asteroseismic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Stello , H. Kjeldsen , T. R. Bedding

We test asteroseismic radii of Kepler main-sequence and subgiant stars by deriving their parallaxes which are compared with those of the first Gaia data release. We compute radii based on the asteroseismic scaling relations as well as by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 C. L. Sahlholdt , V. Silva Aguirre , L. Casagrande , J. R. Mosumgaard , M. Bojsen-Hansen

Scaling relations that link asteroseismic quantities to global stellar properties are important for gaining understanding of the intricate physics that underpins stellar pulsation. The common notion that all stars in an open cluster have…

Tens of thousands of solar-like oscillating stars have been observed by space missions. Their photometric variability in the Fourier domain can be parameterized by a sum of two super-Lorentizian functions for granulation and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Zhao Guo , Eric B. Ford , Dennis Stello , Jacob K. Luhn , Suvrath Mahadevan , Arvind F. Gupta , Jie Yu

Precise stellar masses and radii can be determined using asteroseismology, but their accuracy must be tested against independent estimates. Using radii derived from Gaia DR2 parallaxes, we test the accuracy of asteroseismic radii for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Christian L. Sahlholdt , Victor Silva Aguirre

CoRoT and Kepler high-precision photometric data allowed the detection and characterization of the oscillation parameters in stars other than the Sun. Moreover, thanks to the scaling relations, it is possible to estimate masses and radii…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 S. Barceló Forteza , T. Roca Cortés , R. A. García

In asteroseismology, the surface effect refers to a disparity between the observed and the modelled frequencies in stars with solar-like oscillations. It originates from improper modelling of the surface layers. Correcting the surface…

Although stellar radii from asteroseismic scaling relations agree at the percent level with independent estimates for main sequence and most first-ascent red giant branch stars, the scaling relations over-predict radii at the tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Joel C. Zinn , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Lars Bildsten , Dennis Stello

Asteroseismology provides fundamental properties (mass, radius and effective temperature) of solar-like oscillating stars using so-called scaling relations. These properties allow the computation of the asteroseismic distance of stars. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Yıldız , Z. Çelik Orhan , S. Örtel , M. Roth

This study investigates the variability of the theoretical correction factor, $f_{\Delta \nu}$, used in red giant branch (RGB) scaling relations, arising from different assumptions in stellar model computations. Adopting a commonly used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

Asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators often relies on the comparisons between stellar models and stellar observations in order to determine the properties of stars. The values of the global seismic parameters, $\nu_\mathrm{max}$ (the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Lucas S. Viani , Sarbani Basu , Enrico Corsaro , Warrick H. Ball , William J. Chaplin

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

\textbf{Scaling formulas were} deduced to describe the relations between the fundamental stellar parameters and the mean \textbf{linewidth and lifetime} of solar-like oscillations of stars. The mean \textbf{linewidth and} lifetime of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-05 Wuming Yang