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Rapidly oscillating Ap stars are unique objects in the potential they offer to study the interplay between a number of important physical phenomena, in particular, pulsations, magnetic fields, diffusion, and convection. Nevertheless, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. S. Cunha , D. Alentiev , I. M. Brandão , K. Perraut

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…

Space missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS have made asteroseismology a powerful probe of stellar interiors. Red giants are key targets thanks to their rich mixed-mode oscillation spectra, which reveal properties of both core and envelope.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 L. Panier , G. Buldgen , M. Matteuzzi , R. Scuflaire , M. A. Dupret , A. Noels , A. Miglio

Non-radial oscillation modes of neutron stars serve as diagnostics of their internal composition and relativistic structure. In this work, we investigate the perturbations of static and spherically symmetric neutron stars characterized by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose F. Rodriguez-Ruiz , L. M. Becerra , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

Pulsational properties of 1.8 M$_{\odot}$ stellar models covering the latest stages of contraction toward the main sequence up to early hydrogen burning phases are investigated by means of linear nonadiabatic analyses. Results confirm that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marian Suran , MarieJo Goupil , Annie Baglin , Yveline Lebreton , Claude Catala

Stellar oscillation codes are software instruments that evaluate the normal-mode frequencies of an input stellar model. While inter-code comparisons are often used to confirm the correctness of calculations, they are not suitable for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Richard H. D. Townsend , Rianna V. Kuenzi , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Context. The use of ratios of small to large separations as a diagnostic of stellar interiors. Aims. To demonstrate that model fitting by comparing observed and model separation ratios at the same n values is in error, and to present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ian W Roxburgh , Sergei V Vorontsov

In the Sun, the properties of acoustic modes are sensitive to changes in the magnetic activity. In particular, mode frequencies are observed to increase with increasing activity level. Thanks to CoRoT and Kepler, such variations have been…

CoRoT and Kepler observations of red giant stars revealed very rich spectra of non-radial solar-like oscillations. Of particular interest was the detection of mixed modes that exhibit significant amplitude, both in the core and at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 M. Grosjean , M. -A. Dupret , K. Belkacem , J. Montalban , R. Samadi , B. Mosser

The CoRoT and Kepler missions have provided high-quality measurements of the frequency spectra of solar-like pulsators, enabling us to probe stellar interiors with a very high degree of accuracy by comparing the observed and modeled…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 L. Manchon , K. Belkacem , R. Samadi , T. Sonoi , J. P. C. Marques , H. -G. Ludwig , E. Caffau

We present photometric and spectroscopic analyses of gravity (g-mode) long-period pulsating hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars. We perform a detailed asteroseismic and spectroscopic analysis of five pulsating sdB stars observed with {\it TESS}…

Asteroseismology, the study of stellar pulsations, offers insights into the internal structures and evolution of stars. Analysing the variations in a star's brightness allows the determination of fundamental properties such as mass, radius,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Mathias Michielsen

Thanks to significant improvements in high-resolution spectrographs and the launch of dedicated space missions MOST, CoRoT and Kepler, the number of subgiants and red-giant stars with detected oscillations has increased significantly over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Hekker , A. Mazumdar

Through an extensive set of realistic synthetic observations (produced in Paper I), we assess in this part of the paper series (Paper III) how the choice of observational techniques affects the measurement of star-formation rates (SFRs) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christine M. Koepferl , Thomas P. Robitaille , James E. Dale

The main obstacle in exploiting the frequency data of $\delta$ Sct stars is difficulty in mode identification. The $\delta$ Sct oscillation spectra, unlike those of the Sun or white dwarfs, do not exhibit very regular patterns. Thus, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

Strong magnetic fields are expected to significantly modify the pulsation frequencies of waves propagating in the cores of red giants or in the radiative envelopes of intermediate- and high-mass main-sequence stars. We calculate the g-mode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Nicholas Z. Rui , J. M. Joel Ong , Stéphane Mathis

High-quality data from space-based observatories present an opportunity to fit stellar models to observations of individually-identified oscillation frequencies, not just the large and small frequency separations. But such fits require the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Warrick H. Ball , Jesper Schou , Laurent Gizon , João P. Marques

Stellar oscillations can be of topological origin. We reveal this deep and so-far hidden property of stars by establishing a novel parallel between stars and topological insulators. We construct an hermitian problem to derive the expression…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Armand Leclerc , Guillaume Laibe , Pierre Delplace , Antoine Venaille , Nicolas Perez

Context. As of today, asteroseismology mainly allows us to probe the internal rotation of stars when modes are only weakly affected by rotation using perturbative methods. Such methods cannot be applied to rapidly rotating stars, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Vincent Prat , Stéphane Mathis , François Lignières , Jérôme Ballot , Pierre-Marie Culpin

Convective boundary mixing (CBM) is ubiquitous in stellar evolution. It is a necessary ingredient in the models in order to match observational constraints from clusters, binaries and single stars alike. We compute `effective overshoot'…

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