Asteroseismology of Solar-Type and Red-Giant Stars

By W. Chaplin, A. Miglio. 2013

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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 stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by the observation of natural, resonant oscillations. Asteroseismology is proving to be particularly significant for the study of solar-type and red-giant stars. These stars show rich spectra of solar-like oscillations, which are excited and intrinsically damped by turbulence in the outermost layers of the convective envelopes. In this review we discuss the current state of the field, with a particular emphasis on recent advances provided by the Kepler and COROT (Convection, Rotation & Planetary Transits) space missions and the wider significance to astronomy of the results from asteroseismology, such as stellar populations studies and exoplanet studies.

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Ages and fundamental properties of Kepler exoplanet host stars from asteroseismology (2015, background): “The CoRoT and Kepler missions have revolutionised the quality and quantity of data that are available for the analysis of solar-like oscillations (see e.g., Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): BINARIES, PULSATIONS, AND EXPLOSIONS (2015, background): “…that nearly all γ Doradus and δ Scuti stars are hybrid pulsators, and the detection of solar-like oscillations in a large sample of red giants (Auvergne et al. 2009; De Ridder et al. 2009; Grigahcène et al. 2010; Bedding et al. 2010; ChristensenDalsgaard & Thompson 2011; Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs: the Kepler Asteroseismic LEGACY Sample. I. Oscillation Mode Parameters (2016, background): “The study of stars and extrasolar planets via the properties of their host stars has experienced a revolution in recent years (Chaplin & Miglio 2013; ChristensenDalsgaard 2016).”
Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs: the Kepler Asteroseismic LEGACY Sample. II. Radii, Masses, and Ages (2016, background): “Prior to these missions, solar-like oscillations for stars other than the Sun were observed in only a small number of them (see e.g., Chaplin & Miglio 2013, for a review).”
Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects (2012, methodology): “Here we summarize the basics of solar oscillations, referring readers to Chaplin & Miglio (2013) for a more detailed discussion.”
THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT (2013, background): “Non-radial oscillations are detected in virtually all red giants targeted by the Kepler mission (Borucki et al. 2010; Hekker et al. 2011), and the observed frequencies are sensitive diagnostics of basic stellar properties such as mass, radius, and age (for a review, see Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
AN ANCIENT EXTRASOLAR SYSTEM WITH FIVE SUB-EARTH-SIZE PLANETS (2015, background): “In particular, the information contained in solar-like oscillations allows fundamental stellar properties (i.e., density, surface gravity, mass, radius, and age) to be precisely determined (Cunha et al. 2007; Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
A NEW GENERATION OF PARSEC-COLIBRI STELLAR ISOCHRONES INCLUDING THE TP-AGB PHASE (2017, background): “…composition information for huge populations of stars in the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies, while the onset of space-based asteroseismology now gives access to fundamental quantities such as the masses and radii even for stars located tens of kiloparsecs away (Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
THE KEPLER CATALOG OF STELLAR FLARES (2016, methodology): “For the first time, asteroseismology with Kepler has provided information on the internal structure of stars besides our Sun, which places powerful constraints on their masses, radii, and ages (Chaplin et al. 2010; Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
Asteroseismology and Gaia: Testing Scaling Relations Using 2200 Kepler Stars with TGAS Parallaxes (2017, background): “Due to the wealth of data from space-based missions (Chaplin & Miglio 2013) and the complexity of modeling oscillation frequencies for evolved stars (e.g., di Mauro et al. 2011), most studies have relied on global asteroseismic observables and scaling relations to derive fundamental stellar…”
Stellar ages and masses in the solar neighbourhood: Bayesian analysis using spectroscopy and Gaia DR1 parallaxes (2018, methodology): “…giants are almost entirely dependent on mass, which can be accurately estimated using asteroseismic frequencies ∆ν and νmax via scaling relations (e.g., Chaplin & Miglio 2013), or spectroscopic information such as C/N or H lines (e.g., Ness et al. 2016; Masseron et al. 2016; Bergemann et al. 2016).”
White Dwarf Rotation as a Function of Mass and a Dichotomy of Mode Line Widths: Kepler Observations of 27 Pulsating DA White Dwarfs through K2 Campaign 8 (2017, background): “The broadly distributed power was reminiscent of the power spectra of stochastically driven oscillations in the Sun or other solar-like oscillators (Chaplin & Miglio 2013).”
The vertical metallicity gradients of mono-age stellar populations in the Milky Way with the RAVE and Gaia data (2017, methodology): “There are several ways to obtain the ages of stars, including isochrone fitting (e.g. Holmberg et al. 2009; Casagrande et al. 2011; Haywood et al. 2013), asteroseismology (e.g. Chaplin & Miglio 2013, for a review) and the C/N abundance ratio (Masseron & Gilmore 2015; Martig et al. 2016).”
PLATO as it is: a legacy mission for Galactic archaeology (2017, positive): “Stellar properties can be straightforwardly translated into reasonable predictions of average or global asteroseismic parameters (e.g., see Chaplin & Miglio 2013): the average large frequency separation ( ⟨ Δ 𝜈 ⟩ ) and the frequency of maximum oscillations power ( 𝜈 max ).”
GYRE: An open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting Scheme (2013, background): “See also the reviews by Christensen-Dalsgaard & Thompson (2011) and Chaplin & Miglio (2013) for further highlights.”