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Galactic archaeology largely relies on precise ages of distant evolved stars in the Milky Way. Nowadays, asteroseismology can deliver ages for many red giants observed with high-cadence, high-precision photometric space missions. Our aim is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 D. J. Fritzewski , C. Aerts , J. S. G. Mombarg , S. Gossage , T. Van Reeth

Galactic archeology has long been limited by a lack of precise masses and ages for metal-poor stars in the Milky Way's thick disk. However, with TESS providing a growing number of photometric observations, it is possible to calculate masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Corin Marasco , Jamie Tayar , David Nidever

[...] The aim of this paper is to study the precision and theoretical biases in the age determinations of halo stars adopting both asteroseismic and classic observational constraints. [...] We adopt the well-tested SCEPtER pipeline,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 S. Moser , G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , S. Degl'Innocenti , P. G. Prada Moroni

Context: Asteroseismology, a powerful approach for obtaining internal structure and stellar properties, requires surface temperature and chemical composition information to determine mass and age. High-resolution spectroscopy is a valuable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Nagaraj Vernekar , Sara Lucatello , Angela Bragaglia , Andrea Miglio , Nicoletta Sanna , Gloria Andreuzzi , Antonio Frasca

Red giant stars are solar-like pulsators presenting mixed-modes. Such modes consist in a coupling between pressure waves propagating in the external convective envelope and gravity waves propagating in the radiative interior. Therefore, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Charlotte Gehan , Benoît Mosser , Eric Michel

Owing to their simplicity and ease of application, seismic scaling relations are widely used to determine the properties of stars exhibiting solar-like oscillations, such as solar twins and red giants. So far, no seismic scaling relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Earl Patrick Bellinger

We present a sample of local red giant stars observed using the New Mexico State University 1 m telescope with the APOGEE spectrograph, for which we estimate stellar ages and the age distribution from the high-resolution spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Diane K Feuillet , Jo Bovy , Jon Holtzman , Leo Girardi , Nick MacDonald , Steven R Majewski , David L Nidever

In this last decade, our knowledge of evolutionary and structural properties of stars of different mass and chemical composition has significantly improved. This notwithstanding, updated stellar models are still affected by significant and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Santi Cassisi

When low- and intermediate-mass stars evolve off the main sequence, they expand and cool into the red giant stages of evolution, which include those associated with shell H burning (the red giant branch), core He burning (the red clump),…

We provide a status report on the determination of stellar ages from asteroseismology for stars of various masses and evolutionary stages. The ability to deduce the ages of stars with a relative precision of typically 10 to 20% is a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Conny Aerts

Thanks to the recent very high-precision photometry of red giants from satellites such as Kepler, precise mass and radius values as well as accurate information of evolutionary stages are already established by asteroseismic approach for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Takeda , Akito Tajitsu

We present a study of asteroseismically derived surface gravities, masses, and radii of a sample of red giant stars both with and without confirmed planetary companions using TESS photometric light curves. These red giants were drawn from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Myles Pope , Joleen K. Carlberg , Jeff Valenti , Doug Branton

Determining the ages of red-giant stars is a key problem in stellar astrophysics. One of the difficulties in this determination is to know the evolutionary state of the individual stars -- i.e. have they started to burn Helium in their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yvonne Elsworth , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Guy Davies

Of the more than 150000 targets followed by the Kepler Mission, about 10% were selected as red giants. Due to their high scientific value, in particular for Galaxy population studies and stellar structure and evolution, their Kepler light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Stello , D. Huber , T. R. Bedding , O. Benomar , L. Bildsten , Y. P. Elsworth , R. L. Gilliland , B. Mosser , B. Paxton , T. R. White

We show that the masses of red giant stars can be well predicted from their photospheric carbon and nitrogen abundances, in conjunction with their spectroscopic stellar labels log g, Teff, and [Fe/H]. This is qualitatively expected from…

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…

An increasingly popular method to determine stellar ages of red-giant stars for the purpose of Galactic archaeology is asteroseismic grid-based modelling (GBM). In asteroseismic GBM of red-giant stars with solar-like oscillations the large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

The space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler opened up a new opportunity for better understanding stellar evolution by probing stellar interiors with unrivalled high-precision photometric data. Kepler has observed stellar oscillation for four…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 G. Dréau , B. Mosser , Y. Lebreton , C. Gehan , T. Kallinger

Asteroseismology provides powerful means to probe stellar interiors. The oscillations frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles. Since these are tightly linked with the mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yveline Lebreton , Josefina Montalban

The surface [C/N] of red giants is correlated with birth mass, but not directly impacted by mass loss. Exploiting this, we compare asteroseismic masses of red giants with the same [C/N] and but different evolutionary states. We find bulk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 John D. Roberts , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Jennifer A. Johnson , Madeline Howell