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Asteroseismology is among the most powerful observational tools to determine fundamental properties of stars. Space-based photometry has recently enabled the systematic detection of oscillations in exoplanet host stars, allowing a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Daniel Huber

Space observatories such as $\textit{Kepler}$ have provided data that can potentially revolutionise our understanding of stars. Through detailed asteroseismic analyses we are capable of determining fundamental stellar parameters and reveal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Andrés García Saravia Ortiz de Montellano , Saskia Hekker , Nathalie Themeßl

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

Yearslong time series of high-precision brightness measurements have been assembled for thousands of stars with telescopes operating in space. Such data have allowed astronomers to measure the physics of stellar interiors via nonradial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 C. Aerts

Accurately measuring stellar ages and internal structures is challenging, but the inclusion of asteroseismic observables can substantially improve precision. However, the curse of dimensionality means this comes at a high computational cost…

We present what constraints on opacities can be derived from the analysis of stellar pulsations of BA-type main-sequence stars. This analysis consists of the construction of complex seismic models which reproduce the observed frequencies as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-03 Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz , Przemyslaw Walczak , Alosha Pamyatnykh , Wojciech Szewczuk

The disciplines of asteroseismology and extrasolar planet science overlap methodically in the branch of high-precision photometric time series observations. Light curves are, amongst others, useful to measure intrinsic stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Sonja Schuh

We present a new method to obtain stellar properties for stars exhibiting solar-like oscillations in an easy, fast, and transparent way. The method, called Asteroseismology Made Easy (AME), can determine stellar masses, mean-densities,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 M. Lundkvist , H. Kjeldsen , V. Silva Aguirre

Asteroseismic observations are crucial to constrain stellar models with precision. Bayesian Estimation of STellar Parameters (BESTP) is a tool that utilizes Bayesian statistics and nested sampling Monte Carlo algorithm to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Chen Jiang , Laurent Gizon

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

In the past decade, helioseismology has revolutionized our understanding of the interior structure of the Sun. In the next decade, asteroseismology will place this knowledge into context, by providing structural information for dozens of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. S. Metcalfe , T. M. Brown , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Asteroseismology with the Kepler space telescope is providing not only an improved characterization of exoplanets and their host stars, but also a new window on stellar structure and evolution for the large sample of solar-type stars in the…

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

Over the last decade, thanks to the successful space missions launched to detect stellar pulsations, Asteroseismology has produced an extraordinary revolution in astrophysics, unveiling a wealth of results on structural properties of stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Maria Pia Di Mauro

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

Kepler mission will provide a huge amount of asteroseismic data during the next few years, among which hundreds of solar-like stars will be targeted. The amount of stars and their observation length represent a step forward in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 S. Mathur , R. A. Garcia , C. Regulo , J. Ballot , D. Salabert , W. J. Chaplin

Helioseismology has enabled us to better understand the solar interior, while also allowing us to better constrain solar models. But now is a tremendous epoch for asteroseismology as space missions dedicated to studying stellar oscillations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Mathur , R. A. Garcia , C. Regulo , O. L. Creevey , J. Ballot , D. Salabert , T. Arentoft , P. -O. Quirion , W. J. Chaplin , H. Kjeldsen

Asteroseismology has grown from its beginnings three decades ago to a mature field teeming with discoveries and applications. This phenomenal growth has been enabled by space photometry with precision $10-100$ times better than ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Donald Kurtz

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interior physics are being made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by the observation of their natural, resonant oscillations. Asteroseismology is making significant contributions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 Tiago L. Campante

Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the first systematic studies of solar-like pulsators, have boosted the impact of this…