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Asteroseismic investigations based on the wealth of data now available,in particular from the CoRoT and Kepler missions, require a good understanding of the relation between the observed quantities and the properties of the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , V. Silva Aguirre , Y. Elsworth , S. Hekker

Despite major progress in our understanding of massive stars, concerning discrepancies still remain between observations and theory. Most notable are the numerous stars observed beyond the theoretical main sequence, an evolutionary phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Earl Patrick Bellinger , Selma E. de Mink , Walter E. van Rossem , Stephen Justham

Eclipsing binary systems with components that pulsate in gravity modes ($g$ modes) allow for simultaneous and independent constraints of the chemical mixing profiles of stars. We aim to assemble a sample of $g$-mode pulsators in detached…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 S. Sekaran , A. Tkachenko , M. Abdul-Masih , A. Prsa , C. Johnston , D. Huber , S. J. Murphy , G. Banyard , A. W. Howard , H. Isaacson , D. M. Bowman , C. Aerts

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

Understanding the age and metallicity dependence of the absolute magnitude and colour of red clump (RC) stars is crucial for validating the accuracy of stellar evolution models and enhancing their reliability as a standard candle. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Hiroki Onozato , Yoshifusa Ita , Yoshikazu Nakada

Convective mixing in Helium-core-burning (HeCB) stars is one of the outstanding issues in stellar modelling. The precise asteroseismic measurements of gravity-modes period spacing ($\Delta\Pi_1$) has opened the door to detailed studies of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Bossini , A. Miglio , M. Salaris , M. Vrard , S. Cassisi , B. Mosser , J. Montalbán , L. Girardi , A. Noels , A. Bressan , A. Pietrinferni , J. Tayar

We use four years of Kepler photometry to study the non-eclipsing spectroscopic binary KIC 10080943. We find both components to be $\gamma$ Doradus/$\delta$ Scuti hybrids, which pulsate in both p and g modes. We present an analysis of the g…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 M. A. Keen , T. R. Bedding , S. J. Murphy , V. S. Schmid , C. Aerts , A. Tkachenko , R. -M. Ouazzani , D. W. Kurtz

We present a sample of about 120,000 red clump candidates selected from the LAMOST DR2 catalog based on the empirical distribution model in the effective temperature vs. surface gravity plane. Although, in general, red clump stars are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Junchen Wan , Chao Liu , Licai Deng , Wenyuan Cui , Yong Zhang , Yonghui Hou , Ming Yang , Yue Wu

The frequencies of oscillation modes in stars contain valuable information about the stellar properties. In red giants the frequency spectrum also contains mixed modes, with both pressure (p) and gravity (g) as restoring force, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Nathalie Themeßl , Saskia Hekker , Yvonne Elsworth

Asteroseismology is used to infer the interior physics of stars. The \textit{Kepler} and TESS space missions have provided a vast data set of red-giant light curves, which may be used for asteroseismic analysis. These data sets are expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Siddharth Dhanpal , Othman Benomar , Shravan Hanasoge , Abhisek Kundu , Dattaraj Dhuri , Dipankar Das , Bharat Kaul

The Kepler spacecraft provides new opportunities to search for long term frequency and amplitude modulations of oscillation modes in pulsating stars. We ana- lyzed nearly two years of uninterrupted data obtained with this instrument on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 W. Zong , S. Charpinet , G. Vauclair

Despite more than 20 years since the discovery of the first gas giant planet with an anomalously large radius, the mechanism for planet inflation remains unknown. Here, we report the discovery of EPIC228754001.01, an inflated gas giant…

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

Asteroseismology is the study of resonant oscillations of stars to infer their internal structure and dynamics. It is also a powerful tool for precisely determining stellar parameters such as mass, radius, surface gravity, and age. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Nipun Ghanghas , Siddharth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Praneeth Netrapalli , Karthikeyan Shanmugam

The lack of RR Lyr stars in binary systems is an atypical fact when we compared it to other classes of variables. Therefore, it has become a challenge for observers to detect an RR Lyr variable in a binary system. The RR Lyr variable KIC…

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

Globular clusters provide unique opportunities to study stellar evolution -- as the second brightest cluster, 47 Tuc is a prime target. Asteroseismology can be used to measure precise masses of stars and has recently been applied to red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Dennis Stello , Timothy R. Bedding , Ronald L. Gilliland

Rotation is expected to have an important influence on the structure and the evolution of stars. However, the mechanisms of angular momentum transport in stars remain theoretically uncertain and very complex to take into account in stellar…

The Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS) of the Roman Space Telescope will take high cadence data of the Galactic bulge. We investigate the asteroseismic potential of this survey for red giants. We simulate the detectability of global…

The currently available Kepler light curves contain an outstanding amount of information but a detailed analysis of the individual oscillation modes in the observed power spectra, also known as peak bagging, is computationally demanding and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 E. Corsaro , J. De Ridder , R. A. García