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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

In the context of the space-based mission CoRoT, devoted to asteroseismology and search for planet transits, we analyse the accuracy of fundamental stellar parameters (mass, radius, luminosity) that can be obtained from asteroseismological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Mulet-Marquis , I. Baraffe , S. Aigrain , F. Pont

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzing chemical abundances in stellar atmospheres. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Raniere de Menezes , Francesco Massaro , Michela Negro , Claudia M. Raiteri , Harold Peña-Herazo , Jose A. Acosta-Pulido

Light curves of oscillating stars provide valuable insights into the stellar interiors. When oscillations from a pair of stars are captured within a single photometric aperture, they can be considered as potential asteroseismic binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jeong Yun Choi , Francisca Espinoza-Rojas , Saskia Hekker

Context. In asteroseismology the pulsation mode frequencies of a star are the fundamental data that are compared to theoretical predictions to determine a star's interior physics. Recent significant advances in the numerical, theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Dominic M. Bowman , Mathias Michielsen

As a star orbits the center of its host galaxy, the trajectory is encompassed within a 3D toroid. The orbit probes all points in this toroid, unless its orbital frequencies exhibit integer ratios (commensurate frequencies), in which case a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Subhadeep Sarkar , Michael S. Petersen

Asteroseismology provides a unique tool for studying stellar interiors. Recently p modes have been detected on the bright solar-like star alpha Cen A thanks to high-precision radial-velocity measurements. However a better characterisation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bazot , F. Bouchy , H. Kjeldsen , S. Charpinet , M. Laymand , S. Vauclair

We present a method for a non-linear asteroseismic inversion suitable for gravity-mode pulsators and apply it to slowly pulsating B-type (SPB) stars. Our inversion method is based on the iterative improvement of a parameterised static…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Eoin Farrell , Gaël Buldgen , Georges Meynet , Patrick Eggenberger , Marc-Antoine Dupret , Dominic M. Bowman

Today, asteroseismology is entering in its golden age thanks to the observations provided by the CoRoT and Kepler space missions. In particular, we will make significant progresses in the understanding of the structure and evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 R. A. Garcia

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to probe the structure of stars. Space-borne instruments like CoRoT, Kepler and TESS have observed the oscillations of numerous stars, among which {\delta} Scutis are particularly interesting owing to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Subrata Kumar Panda , Siddharth Dhanpal , Simon J. Murphy , Shravan Hanasoge , Timothy R. Bedding

This review outlines concepts of mathematical statistics, elements of probability theory, hypothesis tests and point estimation for use in the analysis of modern astronomical data. Least squares, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian approaches…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-10 Eric D. Feigelson , G. Jogesh Babu

We introduce pymovements: a Python package for analyzing eye-tracking data that follows best practices in software development, including rigorous testing and adherence to coding standards. The package provides functionality for key…

astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces (APIs). These tools…

ASTRA is a Python package that provides a modular, instrument-independent interface for working with high-resolution stellar spectra. Designed to support data from multiple spectrographs, including ESPRESSO (Pepe et al., 2021), HARPS (Mayor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 André M. Silva , J. P. Faria , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , P. T. P. Viana , J. H. C. Martins

We develop a novel method based on machine learning principles to achieve optimal initiation of CPU-intensive computations for forward asteroseismic modeling in a multi-D parameter space. A deep neural network is trained on a precomputed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Luc Hendriks , Conny Aerts

Since Lorenz's seminal work on a simplified weather model, the numerical analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems has become one of the main subjects of research in physics. Despite of that, there remains a need for accessible, efficient,…

Line observations of young stellar objects (YSOs) at (sub)millimeter wavelengths provide essential information of gas kinematics in star and planet forming environments. For Class 0 and I YSOs, identification of Keplerian rotation is of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Yusuke Aso , Jinshi Sai

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has provided photometric light curves for stars across nearly the entire sky. This allows for the application of asteroseismology to a pool of potential solar-like oscillators that is…

There has been tremendous progress in observing oscillations in solar-type stars. In a few short years we have moved from ambiguous detections to firm measurements. We briefly review the recent results, most of which have come from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding , Hans Kjeldsen