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Interpreting the oscillations of massive and intermediate mass stars remains a challenging task. In fast rotators, the oscillation spectrum of p-modes is a superposition of sub-spectra which correspond to different types of modes, among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Benjamin Evano , François Lignières , Bertrand Georgeot

Context : We still do not know which mechanisms are responsible for the transport of angular momentum inside stars. The recent detection of mixed modes that contain the signature of rotation in the spectra of Kepler subgiants and red giants…

Metal-poor stars are key to understanding the first stellar generation in the Galaxy. Asteroseismic characterisation of red giants has traditionally relied on global seismic parameters, not the full spectrum of individual oscillation modes.…

In the convective envelopes of relatively cool stars, oscillations are excited by turbulent convection. In these so-called solar-like oscillators, radial oscillation modes appear at nearly equally spaced frequencies. This spacing is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 S. Hekker , Y. Elsworth , S. Basu , F. Ahlborn , W. H. Ball , E. P. Bellinger , L. Buchele , F. Espinoza-Rojas

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

From its surface properties it can be difficult to determine whether a red-giant star is in its helium-core-burning phase or only burning hydrogen in a shell around an inert helium core. Stars in either of these stages can have similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Saskia Hekker , Yvonne Elsworth , Sarbani Basu , Earl Bellinger

Red Giant stars host solar-like oscillations which have mixed character, being sensitive to conditions both in the outer convection zone and deep within the interior. The properties of these modes are sensitive to both core rotation and…

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

The oscillation spectra of solar-type stars may in the not-too- distant future be used to constrain certain properties of the stars. The CD diagram of large versus small frequency separations is one of the powerful tools available to infer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , M. J. Thompson

Data-driven analysis methods can help to infer physical properties of red giant stars where "gold-standard" asteroseismic data are not available. The study of optical and infrared spectra of red giant stars with data-driven analyses has…

Low-mass stars from the first epoch of star formation may still persist in the Milky Way and its satellite dwarf galaxies today; however, their detection is confounded by surface pollution from interstellar accretion and internal mixing,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Thiago Ferreira , Earl P. Bellinger , Ebraheem Farag , Christopher J. Lindsay

Asteroseismic measurements enable inferences of the underlying stellar structure, such as the density and the speed of sound at various points within the interior of the star. This provides an opportunity to test stellar evolution theory by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Earl P. Bellinger , Sarbani Basu , Saskia Hekker , Jørgen Chrisensen-Dalsgaard , Warrick H. Ball

Context. Observations and analysis of solar-type oscillations in red-giant stars is an emerging aspect of asteroseismic analysis with a number of open questions yet to be explored. Although stochastic oscillations have previously been…

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

Nearly all cool, evolved stars are solar-like oscillators, and fundamental stellar properties can be inferred from these oscillations with asteroseismology. Scaling relations are commonly used to relate global asteroseismic properties, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Amanda L. Ash , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Mathieu Vrard , Joel Zinn

Variations of frequency separations of low-degree p-modes are studied over the solar activity cycle. The separations studied are obtained from the frequencies of low-degree p-modes of the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG). 10.7 cm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Wuming Yang , Xiangcun Meng

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

Given the potential of ensemble asteroseismology for understanding fundamental properties of large numbers of stars, it is critical to determine the accuracy of the scaling relations on which these measurements are based. From several…

We perform a detailed asteroseismic analysis of four red giants observed by Kepler: KIC 9145955, KIC 9970396, KIC 9882316, and KIC 11968334. Our study is based on individual oscillation frequencies, with particular emphasis on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Xinyi Zhang , Tanda Li , Jianxing Chen , Xinghao Chen , Gang Li , Chunqian Li , Shaolan Bi