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Since the advent of the space-based photometric missions such as CoRoT and NASA's Kepler, asteroseismology has acquired a central role in our understanding about stellar physics. The Kepler spacecraft, especially, is still releasing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Enrico Corsaro

We present the Bayesian Asteroseismology data Modeling (BAM) pipeline, an automated asteroseismology pipeline that returns global oscillation parameters and granulation parameters from the analysis of photometric time-series. BAM also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-21 Joel C. Zinn , Dennis Stello , Daniel Huber , Sanjib Sharma

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

The goal of AIMS (Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale) is to estimate stellar parameters and credible intervals/error bars in a Bayesian manner from a set of asteroseismic frequency data and so-called classical constraints. To…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Mikkel N. Lund , Daniel R. Reese

The number of main-sequence stars for which we can observe solar-like oscillations is expected to increase considerably with the short-cadence high-precision photometric observations from the NASA Kepler satellite. Because of this increase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Hekker , A. -M Broomhall , W. J. Chaplin , Y. P. Elsworth , S. T. Fletcher , R. New , T. Arentoft , P. -O. Quirion , H. Kjeldsen

The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Ansgar Wehrhahn , Nikolai Piskunov , Tanja Ryabchikova

In addition to its great potential for characterizing extra-solar planetary systems the Kepler mission is providing unique data on stellar oscillations. A key aspect of Kepler asteroseismology is the application to solar-like oscillations…

$clustertools$ is a Python package for analyzing star cluster simulations. The package is built around the $StarCluster$ class, which stores all data read in from the snapshot of a given model star cluster. The package contains functions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-22 Jeremy J. Webb

The pattern of individual mode frequencies in solar-like oscillators provides valuable insight into their properties and interior structures. The identification and characterisation of these modes requires high signal-to-noise and frequency…

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to measure the fundamental properties of stars and probe their interiors. This is particularly efficient for red giants because their modes are well detectable and give information on their deep layers.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 M. Benbakoura , P. Gaulme , J. McKeever , P. G. Beck , J. Jackiewicz , R. A. Garcia

The increased amount of high precision seismic data for solar-like stars calls for the existence of tools that can extract information from such data. In the case of the study of acoustic glitches there are no publicly available tools and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 L. F. R. Pereira , J. P. Faria , M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro

The success of helioseismology is due to its capability of measuring p-mode oscillations in the Sun. This allows us to extract informations on the internal structure and rotation of the Sun from the surface to the core. Similarly,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-27 Santosh Joshi , Yogesh C. Joshi

Asteroseismology allows us to probe the internal structure of stars through their global modes of oscillation. Thanks to missions such as the NASA Kepler space observatory, we now have high-quality asteroseismic data for nearly 100…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Earl Patrick Bellinger

Studying the internal structure of exoplanet-host stars compared to that of similar stars without detected planets is particularly important for the understanding of planetary formation. The observed average overmetallicity of stars with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-02 Sylvie Vauclair

The evolved solar-type stars 16 Cyg A & B have long been studied as solar analogs, yielding a glimpse into the future of our own Sun. The orbital period of the binary system is too long to provide meaningful dynamical constraints on the…

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

A key aspect in the determination of stellar properties is the comparison of observational constraints with predictions from stellar models. Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale (AIMS) is an open source code that uses Bayesian…

The Kepler space telescope yielded unprecedented data for the study of solar-like oscillations in other stars. The large samples of multi-year observations posed an enormous data analysis challenge that has only recently been surmounted.…

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology. Throughout the course of the Kepler mission, asteroseismology has also played an important role in the characterization of…

Over the past decade asteroseismology has become a powerful method to systematically characterize host stars and dynamical architectures of exoplanet systems. In this contribution I review current key synergies between asteroseismology and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Daniel Huber