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We present the first detections by the NASA K2 Mission of oscillations in solar-type stars, using short-cadence data collected during K2 Campaign\,1 (C1). We understand the asteroseismic detection thresholds for C1-like levels of…

Eclipsing binaries (EBs) are unique benchmarks for stellar evolution. On the one hand, detached EBs hosting at least one star with detectable solar-like oscillations constitute ideal test objects to calibrate asteroseismic measurements. On…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 M. Benbakoura , P. Gaulme , J. McKeever , S. Sekaran , P. G. Beck , F. Spada , J. Jackiewicz , S. Mathis , S. Mathur , A. Tkachenko , R. A. García

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool for probing stellar interiors and determining stellar fundamental parameters. In previous works, $\chi^2$-minimization method is usually used to find the best matching model to characterize observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Tao Wu , Yan Li

Asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators often relies on the comparisons between stellar models and stellar observations in order to determine the properties of stars. The values of the global seismic parameters, $\nu_\mathrm{max}$ (the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Lucas S. Viani , Sarbani Basu , Enrico Corsaro , Warrick H. Ball , William J. Chaplin

We aim to detect and characterise solar-like oscillations in bright naked-eye (V<6) main-sequence (MS) and subgiant stars observed by TESS. We seek to expand the current benchmark sample of oscillators, provide accurate global asteroseismic…

Dipole mode suppression is an observed behavior of solar-like oscillations in evolved stars. This study aims to search for depressed dipole modes in giant stars using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Shurui Lin , Tanda Li , Shude Mao , Jim Fuller

Massive stars are important metal factories in the Universe. They have short and energetic lives, and many of them inevitably explode as a supernova and become a neutron star or black hole. In turn, the formation, evolution and explosive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dominic M. Bowman

The space-borne missions CoRoT and Kepler are indiscreet. With their asteroseismic programs, they tell us what is hidden deep inside the stars. Waves excited just below the stellar surface travel throughout the stellar interior and unveil…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 B. Mosser , R. Samadi , K. Belkacem

Context. The availability of asteroseismic constraints for a large sample of red giant stars from the CoRoT and Kepler missions paves the way for various statistical studies of the seismic properties of stellar populations. Aims. We use the…

Detailed modelling of stellar oscillations is able to give precise estimates for stellar ages, but the inferred results typically depend on the adopted model parameters used for the age inference. High-quality asteroseismic data with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Tanda Li , Timothy R. Bedding , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Dennis Stello , Yaguang Li , Matthew A. Keen

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA's latest space telescope dedicated to the discovery of transiting exoplanets around nearby stars. Besides the main goal of the mission, asteroseismology is an important secondary goal…

Photometric time series gathered by space telescopes such as CoRoT and Kepler allow to detect solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars and to measure their global seismic constraints, which can be used to infer global stellar properties…

Asteroseismology has emerged as the best way to characterize the global and internal properties of nearby stars. Often, this characterization is achieved by fitting stellar evolution models to asteroseismic observations. The star under…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-25 Earl P. Bellinger , Sarbani Basu , Saskia Hekker

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars by using their natural pulsation frequencies. It relies on identifying sequences of pulsation modes that can be compared with theoretical models, which has…

The importance of numax (the frequency of maximum oscillation power) for asteroseismology has been demonstrated widely in the previous decade, especially for red giants. With the large amount of photometric data from CoRoT, Kepler and TESS,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 K. R. Sreenivas , Timothy R. Bedding , Yaguang Li , Daniel Huber , Courtney L. Crawford , Dennis Stello , Jie Yu

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

We aim to establish and improve the accuracy level of asteroseismic estimates of mass, radius, and age of giant stars. This can be achieved by measuring independent, accurate, and precise masses, radii, effective temperatures and…

Asteroseismology can make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the formation history and evolution of our Galaxy by providing precisely determined stellar properties for thousands of stars in different regions of the Milky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 V. Silva Aguirre , A. M. Serenelli

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

Rotation is an important, yet poorly-modelled phenomenon of stellar structure and evolution. Accurate estimates of internal rotation rates are therefore valuable for constraining stellar evolution models. We aim to assess the accuracy of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 F. Ahlborn , E. P. Bellinger , S. Hekker , S. Basu , D. Mokrytska