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 …

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 …

Weakened magnetic braking as the origin of anomalously rapid rotation in old field stars

JL Van Saders, T Ceillier, TS Metcalfe, VS Aguirre… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
A knowledge of stellar ages is crucial for our understanding of many astrophysical
phenomena, and yet ages can be difficult to determine. As they become older, stars lose …

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 …

Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field

A Miglio, C Chiappini, JT Mackereth, GR Davies… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Ensemble studies of red-giant stars with exquisite asteroseismic (Kepler), spectroscopic
(APOGEE), and astrometric (Gaia) constraints offer a novel opportunity to recast and …

Standing on the shoulders of dwarfs: the Kepler asteroseismic LEGACY sample. I. Oscillation mode parameters

MN Lund, VS Aguirre, GR Davies… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The advent of space-based missions like Kepler has revolutionized the study of solar-type
stars, particularly through the measurement and modeling of their resonant modes of …

The first APOKASC catalog of Kepler dwarf and subgiant stars

A Serenelli, J Johnson, D Huber… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first APOKASC catalog of spectroscopic and asteroseismic data for dwarfs
and subgiants. Asteroseismic data for our sample of 415 objects have been obtained by the …

Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs

OJ Hall, GR Davies, J van Saders, MB Nielsen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Studies using asteroseismic ages and rotation rates from star-spot rotation have indicated
that standard age–rotation relations may break down roughly half way through the main …

A variational encoder–decoder approach to precise spectroscopic age estimation for large Galactic surveys

HW Leung, J Bovy, JT Mackereth… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Constraints on the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy require multidimensional
measurements of kinematics, abundances, and ages for a large population of stars. Ages for …

The BAyesian STellar algorithm (BASTA): a fitting tool for stellar studies, asteroseismology, exoplanets, and Galactic archaeology

V Aguirre Børsen-Koch, JL Rørsted… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the public version of the BAyesian STellar Algorithm (BASTA), an open-source
code written in Python to determine stellar properties based on a set of astrophysical …