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Asteroseismology allows us to probe the internal structure of stars through their global modes of oscillation. Thanks to missions such as the NASA Kepler space observatory, we now have high-quality asteroseismic data for nearly 100…

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

Red giants are tracers of stellar evolution & Galactic structure & their asteroseismic properties, particularly large frequency separation, frequency of maximum oscillation power & dipole-mode period spacing, provide direct insight into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Rajarshi Barman , Shatanik Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge , Siddharth Dhanpal

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

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…

Context. The Kepler space mission led to a large amount of high-precision time series of solar-like oscillators. Using a Bayesian analysis that combines asteroseismic techniques and additional ground-based observations, the mass, radius,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 J. De Ridder , G. Molenberghs , L. Eyer , C. Aerts

Asteroseismic studies of red giants have primarily relied on two global parameters: the large frequency separation (Dnu) and the frequency of maximum power (numax). Meanwhile, the p-mode phase shift (epsilon) and small frequency separations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Yingxiang Wang , Timothy R. Bedding , Yaguang Li , Yifan Chen , Courtney L. Crawford , Daniel Huber , K. R. Sreenivas

Magnetic fields are known to efficiently redistribute angular momentum in stars. They have been recently measured in the cores of red giant stars using asteroseismology. It was shown that core magnetic fields, if unaccounted for, can bias…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Matisse Villate , Sébastien Deheuvels , Jérôme Ballot

Context. Determining stellar characteristics such as the radius, the mass or the age is crucial when studying stellar evolution, exoplanetary systems or characterising stellar populations in the Galaxy. Asteroseismology is the golden path…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Gaël Buldgen , Daniel Roy Reese , Marc-Antoine Dupret , Réza Samadi

We propose a new model to determine the ages and masses of red giant branch (RGB) stars from the low-resolution large sky area multi-object fiber spectroscopic telescope (LAMOST) spectra. The ages of RGB stars are difficult to determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Xuejie Li , Yude Bu , Jianhang Xie , Junchao Liang , Jingyu Xu

Aims. Asteroseismic radius and Gaia distance (ARD) method has been proposed to establish the SBCRs for late-type stars. Methods. We select Kepler RGB stars with high-precision asteroseismic radii (uncertainties < 1%) and cross-match them…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Jianping Xiong , Qiyuan Cheng , Xiaodian Chen , Jiao Li , Xiaobin Zhang , Zhanwen Han , Xuefei Chen

We show that different stellar-mass estimation methods yield overall mass scales that disagree by factors up to ~2 for the z=0 galaxy population, and more importantly, relative mass scales that sometimes disagree by factors >~3 between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheila J. Kannappan , Eric Gawiser

The study of planet occurrence as a function of stellar mass is important for a better understanding of planet formation. Estimating stellar mass, especially in the red giant regime, is difficult. In particular, stellar masses of a sample…

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

Localised modelling error in the near-surface layers of evolutionary stellar models causes the frequencies of their normal modes of oscillation to differ from those of actual stars with matching interior structures. These frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 J. M. Joel Ong , Sarbani Basu , Jean M. McKeever

In low-mass stars, the connection between magnetic activity, rotation period, and age provides key insights into the functioning of dynamos. Fully understanding the activity-rotation-age relationship requires stars with precise fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 C. Pezzotti , J. Bétrisey , G. Buldgen , M. Gilfanov , I. Bikmaev , R. Sunyaev , E. Isık , E. Gosset , N. J. Wright

The NASA Kepler space telescope has detected solar-like oscillations in several hundreds of single stars, thereby providing a way to determine precise stellar parameters using asteroseismology. In this work, we aim to derive the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 F. Marcadon , T. Appourchaux , J. P. Marques

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

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

Asteroseismology is a powerful way of determining stellar parameters and properties of stars like the Sun. However, main-sequence F-type stars exhibit short mode lifetimes relative to their oscillation frequency, resulting in overlapping…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Douglas L. Compton , Timothy R. Bedding , Dennis Stello

Statistical studies of exoplanets and the properties of their host stars have been critical to informing models of planet formation. Numerous trends have arisen in particular from the rich Kepler dataset, including that exoplanets are more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-04 Jonah T. Hansen , Luca Casagrande , Michael J. Ireland , Jane Lin