Asteroseismology of solar-type stars

2019/06/27 by Rafael A. García, R. A. Garcia, J. Ballot +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Asteroseismology #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Educational Leadership and Practices #Field (mathematics) #Helioseismology #Stars #Stellar pulsation #Stellar structure #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s41116-019-0020-1

Invited review article for Living Reviews in Solar Physics. 91 pages and 46 figures

arxiv created 2019/06/27 · arxiv updated 2019/07/01 · openalex created_date 2019/07/12 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/09 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Abstract 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 characteristics. However, in the last 30 years the field has been revolutionized by the ability to perform seismic investigations of stellar interiors. This revolution begun with the Sun, where helioseismology has been yielding information competing with what can be inferred about the Earth’s interior from geoseismology. The last two decades have witnessed the advent of asteroseismology of solar-like stars, thanks to a dramatic development of new observing facilities providing the first reliable results on the interiors of distant stars. The coming years will see a huge development in this field. In this review we focus on solar-type stars, i.e., cool main-sequence stars where oscillations are stochastically excited by surface convection. After a short introduction and a historical overview of the discipline, we review the observational techniques generally used, and we describe the theory behind stellar oscillations in cool main-sequence stars. We continue with a complete description of the normal mode analyses through which it is possible to extract the physical information about the structure and dynamics of the stars. We then summarize the lessons that we have learned and discuss unsolved issues and questions that are still unanswered.

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