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 …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetism, dynamo action and the solar-stellar connection

AS Brun, MK Browning - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2017 - Springer
The Sun and other stars are magnetic: magnetism pervades their interiors and affects their
evolution in a variety of ways. In the Sun, both the fields themselves and their influence on …

The second APOKASC catalog: the empirical approach

MH Pinsonneault, YP Elsworth, J Tayar… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of stellar properties for a large sample of 6676 evolved stars with
Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment spectroscopic parameters and …

The PLATO 2.0 mission

H Rauer, C Catala, C Aerts, T Appourchaux… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …

Ages and fundamental properties of Kepler exoplanet host stars from asteroseismology

V Silva Aguirre, GR Davies, S Basu… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a study of 33 Kepler planet-candidate host stars for which asteroseismic
observations have sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio to allow extraction of individual …

Standing on the shoulders of dwarfs: the Kepler asteroseismic LEGACY sample. II. Radii, masses, and ages

VS Aguirre, MN Lund, HM Antia, WH Ball… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We use asteroseismic data from the Kepler satellite to determine fundamental stellar
properties of the 66 main-sequence targets observed for at least one full year by the mission …

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 …

Confirming chemical clocks: asteroseismic age dissection of the Milky Way disc (s)

V Silva Aguirre, M Bojsen-Hansen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Investigations of the origin and evolution of the Milky Way disc have long relied on chemical
and kinematic identifications of its components to reconstruct our Galactic past. Difficulties in …

[HTML][HTML] Gaia FGK benchmark stars: Effective temperatures and surface gravities

U Heiter, P Jofré, B Gustafsson, AJ Korn… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. In the era of large Galactic stellar surveys, carefully calibrating and validating the
data sets has become an important and integral part of the data analysis. Moreover, new …

The APOKASC catalog: an asteroseismic and spectroscopic joint survey of targets in the Kepler fields

MH Pinsonneault, Y Elsworth, C Epstein… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first APOKASC catalog of spectroscopic and asteroseismic properties of
1916 red giants observed in the Kepler fields. The spectroscopic parameters provided from …