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During the last few decades, great effort has been made towards understanding hydrodynamical processes which determine the structure and evolution of stars. Up to now, the most stringent constraints have been provided by helioseismology and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz

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

Asteroseismology involves probing the interiors of stars and quantifying their global properties, such as radius and age, through observationsof normal modes of oscillation. The technical requirements for conducting asteroseismology include…

Stars do not simply pop up on the main sequence. Before the stars arrive on the zero-age main sequence, they form in the collapses of molecular clouds, gain matter through accretion processes, and compress their cores until hydrogen can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Konstanze Zwintz , Thomas Steindl

We develop a novel method based on machine learning principles to achieve optimal initiation of CPU-intensive computations for forward asteroseismic modeling in a multi-D parameter space. A deep neural network is trained on a precomputed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Luc Hendriks , Conny Aerts

The power of asteroseismology relies on the ability to infer the stellar structure from the unambiguous frequency identification of the corresponding pulsation mode. Hence, the use of a Fourier transform is in the basis of asteroseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Pascual-Granado , R. Garrido , J. C. Suárez

In the context of the space-based mission CoRoT, devoted to asteroseismology and search for planet transits, we analyse the accuracy of fundamental stellar parameters (mass, radius, luminosity) that can be obtained from asteroseismological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Mulet-Marquis , I. Baraffe , S. Aigrain , F. Pont

Scientific research is a continuous process, and the speed of future progress can be estimated by the pace of finding explanations for previous research questions. In this observers based view of stellar pulsation and asteroseismology, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Margit Paparó

Star clusters have long been central to the study of stellar evolution due to their chemically and chronologically homogeneous populations. Asteroseismology, the analysis of stellar oscillations and pulsations, provides precise information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Carli Mankowski , Jamie Tayar , Cassidy Martin

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

The disciplines of asteroseismology and extrasolar planet science overlap methodically in the branch of high-precision photometric time series observations. Light curves are, amongst others, useful to measure intrinsic stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Sonja Schuh

High precision asteroseismic data provide a unique opportunity to test input microphysics such as stellar opacities, chemical composition or equation of state. These tests are possible because pulsational frequencies as well as amplitudes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Przemysław Walczak , Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

The characterisation of stellar cores may be accomplished through the modelling of asteroseismic data from stars exhibiting either gravity-mode or mixed-mode pulsations, potentially shedding light on the physical processes responsible for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , D. Stello , M. Vrard , C. Jiang , B. Mosser

Asteroseismology has grown from its beginnings three decades ago to a mature field teeming with discoveries and applications. This phenomenal growth has been enabled by space photometry with precision $10-100$ times better than ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Donald Kurtz

Asteroseismology, as a tool to use the indirect information contained in stellar oscillations to probe the stellar interiors, is an active field of research presently. Stellar age, as a fundamental property of star apart from its mass, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. K. Tang , S. L. Bi , N. Gai

A key aspect in the determination of stellar properties is the comparison of observational constraints with predictions from stellar models. Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale (AIMS) is an open source code that uses Bayesian…

Stellar models provide a vital basis for many aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. Recent advances in observational astronomy -- through asteroseismology, precision photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy, and large-scale surveys -- are…

The efficiency of the transport of angular momentum and chemical elements inside intermediate-mass stars lacks proper calibration, thereby introducing uncertainties on a star's evolutionary pathway. Improvements require better estimation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Joey S. G. Mombarg , Timothy Van Reeth , Conny Aerts

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool that can precisely characterize the mass, radius, and other properties of field stars. However, our inability to properly model the near-surface layers of stars creates a frequency-dependent frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Joseph R. Schmitt , Sarbani Basu

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