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Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to access the internal structure of stars. Apart from the important impact of theoretical developments, progress in this field has been commonly associated with the analysis of time-resolved observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Godart , S. Simón-Díaz , A. Herrero , M. A. Dupret , A. Grötsch-Noels , S. J. A. J. Salmon , P. Ventura

Massive stars play a major role not only in stellar evolution but also galactic evolution theory. This is because of their dynamical interaction with binary companions, and because their strong winds and explosive deaths as supernovae…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Dominic M. Bowman

The O- and B-type (OB-type) pulsating stars are important objects to study the structure and evolution of massive stars through asteroseismology. A large amount of data from various sky surveys provide an unprecedented opportunity to search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Xiang-dong Shi , Sheng-bang Qian , Li-ying Zhu , Liang Liu , Lin-jia Li , Lei Zang

The chemical evolution of the Galaxy is largely guided by the yields from massive stars. Their evolution is heavily influenced by their internal mixing, allowing the stars to live longer and yield a more massive helium core at the end of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 May G. Pedersen

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

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

Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a new class of pulsating variable star. They are located close to the hot subdwarf branch in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and have spectral classes of late O or early B. Stellar evolution models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Paul Ross McWhirter , Marco C. Lam , Iain A. Steele

The recent discovery of large-amplitude pulsations in faint blue stars (BLAPs) provides both challenges for stellar pulsation theory and opportunities to explore the late evolution of low-mass stars. This paper explores the radial-mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 C. S. Jeffery

Star clusters have long been central to the study of stellar evolution due to their chemically and chronologically homogeneous populations. Asteroseismology, the analysis of stellar oscillations and pulsations, provides precise information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Carli Mankowski , Jamie Tayar , Cassidy Martin

\textbf{B}lue \textbf{L}arge \textbf{A}mplitude \textbf{P}ulsators (BLAPs) are a type of variable star that has been identified relatively recently. They are characterized by their large amplitude, high gravity, and long periods (2-75…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Tao Wu , Yan Li

Red-giant stars are low- to intermediate-mass ($M \lesssim 10$~M$_{\odot}$) stars that have exhausted hydrogen in the core. These extended, cool and hence red stars are key targets for stellar evolution studies as well as galactic studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Saskia Hekker

Asteroseismology has been proven to be a successful tool to unravel details of the internal structure for different types of stars in various stages of their main sequence and post-main sequence evolution. Recently, we found a relation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Konstanze Zwintz , Luca Fossati , Tatiana Ryabchikova , David Guenther , Conny Aerts

Asteroseismology has become an indispensable method for measuring stellar ages and radii, while binary systems remain the most prevalent tool for determining stellar masses. The synergy of the two, namely pulsating stars in binary systems,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Simon J. Murphy

Rotation matters for the life of a star. It causes a multitude of dynamical phenomena in the stellar interior during a star's evolution and its effects accumulate until the star dies. All stars rotate at some level but those born with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Conny Aerts , Andrew Tkachenko

Mass loss is one of the key parameters that determine stellar evolution. Despite the progress we have achieved over the last decades we still cannot match the observational derived values with theoretical predictions. Even worse, there are…

Asteroseismic measurements of the internal rotation rate in evolved stars pointed out to a lack of angular momentum (AM) transport in stellar evolution models. Several physical processes in addition to hydrodynamical ones were proposed as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 F. D. Moyano , P. Eggenberger , B. Mosser , F. Spada

Red giant stars play a key role in advancing our understanding of stellar mass loss. However, its initial mass and the amount of mass lost during this phase remain uncertain. In this study, we investigate the asteroseismic signatures of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Sibel Örtel , Mutlu Yıldız

Asteroseismology involves using the resonant frequencies of a star to infer details about its internal structure and evolutionary state. Oscillation frequencies are most useful when accompanied by accurate measurements of the more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are a newly discovered group of compact pulsating stars whose origin needs to be explained. Of the existing evolutionary scenarios that could lead to the formation of BLAPs, there are two in which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Andrzej Pigulski , Piotr A. Kołaczek-Szymański , Marta Święch , Piotr Łojko , Kacper J. Kowalski

The properties of radial nonlinear pulsations of massive blue stars are computed with the MESA software instrument in its dynamical mode. Pulsational instabilities could be computationally detected and followed if the evolutionary timestep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Alfred Gautschy