Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

Probing the interior physics of stars through asteroseismology

C Aerts - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Yearslong time series of high-precision brightness measurements have been assembled for
thousands of stars with telescopes operating in space. Such data have allowed astronomers …

Mesa isochrones and stellar tracks (MIST). I. Solar-scaled models

J Choi, A Dotter, C Conroy, M Cantiello… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This is the first of a series of papers presenting the Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project, a new comprehensive …

Fast and scalable Gaussian process modeling with applications to astronomical time series

D Foreman-Mackey, E Agol… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing field of large-scale time domain astronomy requires methods for probabilistic
data analysis that are computationally tractable, even with large data sets. Gaussian …

A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

G Tinetti, P Drossart, P Eccleston, P Hartogh… - Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

The updated BaSTI stellar evolution models and isochrones. I. Solar-scaled calculations

SL Hidalgo, A Pietrinferni, S Cassisi… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an updated release of the BaSTI (a Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones) stellar
model and isochrone library for a solar-scaled heavy element distribution. The main input …

The apache point observatory galactic evolution experiment (APOGEE)

SR Majewski, RP Schiavon… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the
programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic …

Planetary candidates observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the first 16 months of data

NM Batalha, JF Rowe, ST Bryson… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
New transiting planet candidates are identified in 16 months (2009 May–2010 September)
of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals are vetted …

gyre: an open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting scheme

RHD Townsend, SA Teitler - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present a new oscillation code, gyre, which solves the stellar pulsation equations (both
adiabatic and non-adiabatic) using a novel Magnus Multiple Shooting numerical scheme …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA)

B Paxton, L Bildsten, A Dotter, F Herwig… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar physics and evolution calculations enable a broad range of research in astrophysics.
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) is a suite of open source, robust …