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Accurate estimates of internal red-giant rotation rates are a crucial ingredient for constraining and improving current models of stellar rotation. Asteroseismic rotational inversions are a method to estimate these internal rotation rates.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 F. Ahlborn , J. M. Joel Ong , J. Van Beeck , E. P. Bellinger , S. Hekker , S. Basu

The CoRoT and Kepler satellites have provided thousands of red-giant oscillation spectra. The analysis of these spectra requires efficient methods for identifying all eigenmode parameters. The assumption of new scaling laws allows us to…

Kepler allows the measurement of starspot variability in a large sample of field red giants for the first time. With a new method that combines autocorrelation and wavelet decomposition, we measure 361 rotation periods from the full set of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 T. Ceillier , J. Tayar , S. Mathur , D. Salabert , R. A. Garcia , D. Stello , M. H. Pinsonneault , J. van Saders , P. G. Beck , S. Bloemen

The successful launches of the CoRoT and Kepler space missions have led to the detections of solar-like oscillations in large samples of red-giant stars. The large numbers of red giants with observed oscillations make it possible to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-02 S. Hekker , R. L. Gilliland , Sarbani Basu , J. De Ridder , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth

Red giant stars play a key role in advancing our understanding of stellar mass loss. However, its initial mass and the amount of mass lost during this phase remain uncertain. In this study, we investigate the asteroseismic signatures of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Sibel Örtel , Mutlu Yıldız

The TESS mission has provided a wealth of asteroseismic data for solar-like oscillators. However, these data are subject to varying cadences, large gaps, and unequal sampling, which complicates analysis in the frequency domain. One solution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniel Hey , Daniel Huber , Joel Ong , Dennis Stello , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

The detection with CoRoT of solar-like oscillations in nearly 800 red giants in the first 150-days long observational run paves the way for detailed studies of populations of galactic-disk red giants. We investigate which information on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Miglio , J. Montalban , F. Baudin , P. Eggenberger , A. Noels , S. Hekker , J. De Ridder , W. Weiss , A. Baglin

Asteroseismic observations are crucial to constrain stellar models with precision. Bayesian Estimation of STellar Parameters (BESTP) is a tool that utilizes Bayesian statistics and nested sampling Monte Carlo algorithm to search for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Chen Jiang , Laurent Gizon

Sun-like oscillations, that is p-modes excited stochastically by convective noise, have now been observed in a number of Red Giant stars. Compared to those seen in the Sun, these modes are of large amplitude and long period, making the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-22 N. J. Tarrant , W. J. Chaplin , Y. P. Elsworth , S. A. Spreckley , I. R. Stevens

Asteroseismic modelling is a powerful way to derive stellar properties. However, the derived quantities are limited by built-in assumptions used in stellar models. This work presents a detailed characterisation of stellar model…

We apply machine learning techniques in an attempt to predict and classify stellar properties from noisy and sparse time series data. We preprocessed over 94 GB of Kepler light curves from MAST to classify according to ten distinct physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Trisha Hinners , Kevin Tat , Rachel Thorp

On the main sequence, the asteroseismic small frequency separation $\delta\nu_{02}$ between radial and quadrupole p-modes is customarily interpreted to be a direct diagnostic of internal structure. Such an interpretation is based on a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 J. M. Joel Ong , Christopher J. Lindsay , Claudia Reyes , Dennis Stello , Ian W. Roxburgh

Open clusters are fundamental laboratories for investigating stellar and Galactic evolution, and serve as important benchmarks for asteroseismic analyses. Using a boutique method to analyze TESS photometry, we study red giants in two old…

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

Asteroseismic scaling relations are often used to derive stellar masses and radii, particulaly for stellar, exoplanet, and Galactic studies. It is therefore important that their precisions are known. Here we measure the intrinsic scatter of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Yaguang Li , Timothy R. Bedding , Dennis Stello , Sanjib Sharma , Daniel Huber , Simon J. Murphy

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. The advent of space-borne missions such as CoRoT or Kepler providing photometric data has brought new possibilities for asteroseismology across the H-R diagram. Solar-like oscillations are now observed in many stars, including red…

Asteroseismology, i.e. the study of the internal structures of stars via their global oscillations, is a valuable tool to obtain stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity and mean density. These parameters can be obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Hekker , Y. Elsworth , S. Basu , A. Mazumdar , V. Silva Aguirre , W. J. Chaplin

NASA's TESS mission has identified at least 158,000 oscillating red giants, increasing the known sample by roughly an order of magnitude. After validating that these measurements are reliable to 5% for up to 90% of red giants (Theodoridis &…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Artemis Theano Theodoridis , Leslie Morales , Jamie Tayar

We present an asteroseismic approach to study the dynamics of the stellar interior in red-giant stars by asteroseismic inversion of the splittings induced by the stellar rotation on the oscillation frequencies. We show preliminary results…