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Asteroseismology is the study of resonant oscillations of stars to infer their internal structure and dynamics. It is also a powerful tool for precisely determining stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity, and age. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Nipun Ghanghas , Siddharth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Praneeth Netrapalli , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Recently the number of main-sequence and subgiant stars exhibiting solar-like oscillations that are resolved into individual mode frequencies has increased dramatically. While only a few such data sets were available for detailed modeling…

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…

Tens of thousands of red giant stars in the Kepler data exhibit solar-like oscillations. Their oscillations enable us to study the internal physics from core to surface, such as differential rotation. However, envelope rotation rates have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Gang Li , Sebastien Deheuvels , Jerome Ballot

During the survey phase of the Kepler mission, several thousands of stars were observed in short cadence, allowing the detection of solar-like oscillations in more than 500 main-sequence and sub-giant stars. Later, the Kepler Science Office…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 S. Mathur , R. A. García , S. N. Breton , A. R. G. Santos , B. Mosser , D. Huber , M. Sayeed , L. Bugnet , A. Chontos

We present an extensive peakbagging effort on Kepler data of $\sim$50 red giant stars in the open star cluster NGC 6819. By employing sophisticated pre-processing of the time series and Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques we extracted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 R. Handberg , K. Brogaard , A. Miglio , D. Bossini , Y. Elsworth , D. Slumstrup , G. R. Davies , W. J. Chaplin

Precise asteroseismic parameters allow one to quickly estimate radius and mass distributions for large samples of stars. A number of automated methods are available to calculate the frequency of maximum acoustic power ($\nu_{\mathrm{max}}$)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Claudia Reyes , Dennis Stello , Marc Hon , Joel C. Zinn

Asteroseismology with the space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler provides a powerful mean of testing the modeling of transport processes in stars. Rotational splittings are currently measured for a large number of red giant stars and can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Goupil , B. Mosser , J. P. Marques , R. M. Ouazzani , K. Belkacem , Y. Lebreton , R. Samadi

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

Time-resolved photometry of tens of thousands of red giant stars from space missions like Kepler and K2 has created the need for automated asteroseismic analysis methods. The first and most fundamental step in such analysis, is to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Marc Hon , Dennis Stello , Joel C. Zinn

The detection of oscillations with a mixed character in subgiants and red giants allows us to probe the physical conditions in their cores. With these mixed modes, we aim at determining seismic markers of stellar evolution. Kepler…

This study investigates the variability of the theoretical correction factor, $f_{\Delta \nu}$, used in red giant branch (RGB) scaling relations, arising from different assumptions in stellar model computations. Adopting a commonly used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

The scaling relations between global asteroseismic observables and stellar properties are widely used to estimate masses and radii of stars exhibiting solar-like oscillations. Since the mass and radius of the Sun are known independently,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Elisabeth Guggenberger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Earl Bellinger

We compare radii based on ${\it Gaia}$ parallaxes to asteroseismic scaling relation-based radii of $\sim 300$ dwarfs $\&$ subgiants and $\sim 3600$ first-ascent giants from the ${\it Kepler}$ mission. Systematics due to temperature,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Joel C. Zinn , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Daniel Huber , Dennis Stello , Keivan Stassun , Aldo Serenelli

The unparalleled photometric data obtained by NASA's Kepler space telescope led to an improved understanding of red giant stars and binary stars. Seismology allows us to constrain the properties of red giants. In addition to eclipsing…

Asteroseismic parameters allow us to measure the basic stellar properties of field giants observed far across the Galaxy. Most of such determinations are, up to now, based on simple scaling relations involving the large frequency…

The Kepler mission has been a success in both exoplanet search and stellar physics studies. Red giants have actually been quite a highlight in the Kepler scene. The Kepler long and almost continuous four-year observations allowed us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Savita Mathur , Rafael A. Garcia , Daniel Huber , Clara Regulo , Dennis Stello , Paul G. Beck , Kenza Houmani , David Salabert

Since the onset of the `space revolution' of high-precision high-cadence photometry, asteroseismology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for informing Galactic archaeology investigations. The launch of the NASA TESS mission has…

The Kepler mission, launched in March 2009, has revolutionized asteroseismology, providing detailed observations of thousands of stars. This has allowed in-depth analysis of stars ranging from compact hot subdwarfs to red giants, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Asteroseismology has proven to be an excellent tool to determine not only the global stellar properties with a good precision but also to infer stellar structure, dynamics, and evolution for a large sample of Kepler stars. Prior to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. Mathur , R. A. Garcia , D. Huber , C. Regulo , D. Stello , P. G. Beck , K. Houmani , D. Salabert