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 solar-type stars

RA García, J Ballot - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2019 - Springer
Until the last few decades, investigations of stellar interiors had been restricted to theoretical
studies only constrained by observations of their global properties and external …

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 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 …

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 …

Asteroseismology and gaia: testing scaling relations using 2200 Kepler stars with TGAS parallaxes

D Huber, J Zinn, M Bojsen-Hansen… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comparison of parallaxes and radii from asteroseismology and Gaia DR1
(TGAS) for 2200 Kepler stars spanning from the main sequence to the red-giant branch. We …

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 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 …

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 …