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 …

A Gaussian process framework for modelling stellar activity signals in radial velocity data

V Rajpaul, S Aigrain, MA Osborne… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
To date, the radial velocity (RV) method has been one of the most productive techniques for
detecting and confirming extrasolar planetary candidates. Unfortunately, stellar activity can …

Asteroseismology of solar-type and red-giant stars

WJ Chaplin, A Miglio - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
We are entering a golden era for stellar physics driven by satellite and telescope
observations of unprecedented quality and scope. New insights on stellar evolution and …

Asteroseismology of 16,000 Kepler red giants: global oscillation parameters, masses, and radii

J Yu, D Huber, TR Bedding, D Stello… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The Kepler mission has provided exquisite data to perform an ensemble asteroseismic
analysis on evolved stars. In this work we systematically characterize solar-like oscillations …

Accuracy and precision of industrial stellar abundances

P Jofré, U Heiter, C Soubiran - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
There has been an incredibly large investment in obtaining high-resolution stellar spectra for
determining chemical abundances of stars. This information is crucial to answer …

Turbulent superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

A Pandey, JD Scheel, J Schumacher - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and
cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity …

Asteroseismic fundamental properties of solar-type stars observed by the NASA Kepler mission

WJ Chaplin, S Basu, D Huber, A Serenelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We use asteroseismic data obtained by the NASA Kepler mission to estimate the
fundamental properties of more than 500 main-sequence and sub-giant stars. Data obtained …

Testing scaling relations for solar-like oscillations from the main sequence to red giants using Kepler data

D Huber, TR Bedding, D Stello, S Hekker… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed solar-like oscillations in∼ 1700 stars observed by the Kepler Mission,
spanning from the main sequence to the red clump. Using evolutionary models, we test …

Kepler asteroseismology program: introduction and first results

RL Gilliland, TM Brown… - Publications of the …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Asteroseismology involves probing the interiors of stars and quantifying their global
properties, such as radius and age, through observations of normal modes of oscillation …