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We compared stellar radii derived from asteroseismic scaling relations with those estimated using two independent surface brightness-colour relations (SBCRs) and Gaia DR3 parallaxes. We cross-matched asteroseismic and astrometric data for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

Galaxies undergoing formation and evolution can now be observed over a time baseline of some 12 Gyr. An inherent difficulty with high-redshift observations is that the objects are very faint and the best resolution (HST) is only ~0.5 kpc.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Garth D. Illingworth , Rychard J. Bouwens

We present precise photometric estimates of stellar parameters, including effective temperature, metallicity, luminosity classification, distance, and stellar age, for nearly 26 million stars using the methodology developed in the first…

Red clump stars are fundamental distance indicators in astrophysics, although theoretical stellar models predict a dependence of absolute magnitudes with ages. This effect is particularly strong below 2 Gyr, but even above this limit a mild…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Y. Q. Chen , L. Casagrande , G. Zhao , J. Bovy , V. Silva Aguirre , J. K. Zhao , Y. P. Jia

The NASA satellite Kepler has gathered about 1420 days-long photometric time series for more than 20000 red giant stars. For about 6600 of them also APOGEE spectroscopic parameters are available, making the sample of high interest for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 T. Kallinger

Surface abundances of C, N, and O in red giants are affected by processed material mixed into the stars' convective envelopes. Using a sample of $\sim 5100$ stars with elemental abundances from APOGEE and asteroseismic masses from {\it…

In cases where both components of a binary system show oscillations, asteroseismology has been proposed as a method to identify the system. For KIC 2568888, observed with $Kepler$, we detect oscillation modes for two red giants in a single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Themeßl , S. Hekker , A. Mints , R. A. García , A. García Saravia Ortiz de Montellano , P. B. Stetson , J. De Ridder

The stellar companions in the binary black hole systems Gaia BH2 and BH3, both of which are $\alpha$-enhanced red giant branch stars, are expected to show normal modes with the characteristic signature of convectively-driven solar-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Daniel Hey , Yaguang Li , Joel Ong

We present a comprehensive study of the kinematic properties of the different Galactic disk populations, as defined by the chemical abundance ratios and stellar ages, across a large disk volume (4.5 $\leq$ R $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and $|Z|$ $\leq$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Weixiang Sun , Yang Huang , Han Shen , Chun Wang , Huawei Zhang , Zhijia Tian , Xiaowei Liu , Biwei Jiang

With the observations of an unprecedented number of oscillating subgiant stars expected from NASA's TESS mission, the asteroseismic characterization of subgiant stars will be a vital task for stellar population studies and for testing our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-02 Marc Hon , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Dennis Stello , James S. Kuszlewicz

Precise stellar ages from asteroseismology have become available and can help setting stronger constraints on the evolution of the Galactic disc components. Recently, asteroseismology has confirmed a clear age difference in the solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 E. Spitoni , V. Silva Aguirre , F. Matteucci , F. Calura , V. Grisoni

We address the fundamental question of matching the rest-frame K-band luminosity function (LF) of galaxies over the Hubble time using semi-analytic models, after modification of the stellar population modelling. We include the Maraston…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bruno Henriques , Claudia Maraston , Pierluigi Monaco , Fabio Fontanot , Nicola Menci , Gabriella De Lucia , Chiara Tonini

(ABRIDGED) We use the 17th data release of the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2) to provide a homogenous census of N-rich red giant stars across the Milky Way (MW). We report a total of…

Sun-like stars are well represented in the solar neighbourhood but are currently under-utilised, with many studies of chemical and kinematic evolution focusing on red giants (which can be observed further away) or turn-off stars (which have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Christian Lehmann , Michael T. Murphy , Fan Liu , Chris Flynn

Clear power excess in a frequency range typical for solar-type oscillations in red giants has been detected in more than 1000 stars, which have been observed during the first 138 days of the science operation of the NASA Kepler satellite.…

We present an independent confirmation of the zero-point offset of ${\rm \it Gaia}$ Data Release 2 (DR2) parallaxes using asteroseismic data of evolved stars in the ${\rm \it Kepler}$ field. Using well-characterized red giant branch (RGB)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Joel C. Zinn , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Daniel Huber , Dennis Stello

We explore red stellar populations toward the W3 giant molecular cloud through the use of optical-to-infrared (IR) photometry and Gaia DR 3 data, simultaneously characterizing stellar content and properties of dust in the molecular medium.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 J. L. Campbell , P. G. Martin , S. Song , M. Rahman , L. Einstein

We present a Bayesian implementation of isochrone fitting in deriving stellar ages and masses, incorporating absolute K magnitude ($\rm M_K$) derived from 2MASS photometry and Gaia DR1 parallax and differentiation between initial bulk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 Jane Lin , Aaron Dotter , Yuan-Sen Ting , Martin Asplund

Red giant stars are perhaps the most important type of stars for Galactic and extra-galactic archaeology: they are luminous, occur in all stellar populations, and their surface temperatures allow precise abundance determinations for many…

Data from the space missions {\it Gaia}, {\it Kepler}, {\it CoRoT} and {\it TESS}, make it possible to compare parallax and asteroseismic distances. From the ratio of two densities $\rho_{\rm sca}/\rho_{\pi}$, we obtain an empirical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Mutlu Yıldız , Sibel Örtel