Sentences with word «asteroseismology»

The scientists used asteroseismology to characterize the stars and their planets to levels of accuracy not achieved before for these systems.

CoRoT and Kepler have initiated a revolution in asteroseismology by detecting oscillations in thousands of stars reaching from the main - sequence to the red - giant branch, including more than one hundred exoplanet host stars.

Previously just a backup mission, Eddington will study the composition and structure of stars by measuring seismic vibrations at their surfaces, a technique known as asteroseismology (see p. 1595; subscription to Science magazine required).

As the first mission to provide extensive time series measurements on thou... ▽ More Kepler Mission results are rapidly contributing to fundamentally new discoveries in both the exoplanet and asteroseismology fields.

A second technique called asteroseismology — the measurement of tiny oscillations in the star's brightness — revealed Kepler 444's size, mass and impressive age, which researchers say provides billions of more years for ancient extraterrestrial life to have taken hold somewhere out there.

More specifically, asteroseismology enabled the team to characterize the inner parts of the stars and observe other important features through their natural resonances.

Since 2004, Conny has also occupied the Chair in Asteroseismology at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Employing asteroseismology, using constraints from the transit light curve, adaptive optics and speckle images, and Spitzer transit observations, we demonstrate that the candidate can only be an exoplanet orbiting Kepler - 410A.

What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: Kepler - 410A b is a Small Neptune around a bright star, in an eccentric orbit consistent with low obliquity

We also briefly describe how we can identify cluster stars that have evolved through non-standard evolution by making use of ensemble asteroseismology.

The International Astronomical Union will assemble at the Honolulu Convention Center for six symposia and 22 focus meetings that will cover everything from the «Search for Water and Life's Building Blocks in the Universe» to «Advances in Stellar Physics from Asteroseismology» and everything in between.

Abstract: Kepler Mission results are rapidly contributing to fundamentally new discoveries in both the exoplanet and asteroseismology fields.

Asteroseismology uses the natural resonances of stars to reveal their properties and inner structures.

«Asteroseismology should give us confidence in the history and the future evolutionary path of our sun.»

Title: Asteroseismology of Cool Stars Abstract: The measurement of oscillations excited by surface convection is a powerful method to study the structure and evolution of cool stars.

I will furthermore discuss the impact of asteroseismology on the characterization of exoplanets, including measurements of stellar spin - orbit inclinations and their implications for hot - Jupiter formation theories.

With the idea of developing strong science cases for a future visible interferometer, we organized a science group around the following topics: pre-main sequence and main sequence stars, fundamental parameters, asteroseismology and classical pulsating stars, evolved stars, massive stars, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and imaging techniques.

He uses a variety of computational and observational tools, including 1D stellar evolution, 3D magneto - hydrodynamics calculations of stellar interiors, the study and observation of wave propagation inside stars (asteroseismology), the observations of stellar populations, stellar explosions and the gravitational wave emission from the mergers of compact stellar remnants.

Astrophysics observations with K2 will include studies of young open clusters, bright stars, galaxies, supernovae, and asteroseismology.

To learn more about these cooked planets, the team turned to asteroseismology, which is a branch of science that deals with the study of pulsating stars through analysis of their frequency spectra.

MOST is a small telescope dedicated entirely to asteroseismology, which is the study of star vibrations (pulsations).

Conny's research expertise concerns stellar astrophysics with focus on stellar structure, stellar evolution, variable stars, and asteroseismology.

Thanks to the recent research domain of asteroseismology we can now start to answer these questions for various types of stars through interpretation of their oscillation frequencies.

We will end with future prospects by highlighting the potential of asteroseismology as a tool in the study of galactic archeology and of exoplanetary systems.

The delta Scuti star HD 51844 was observed in the CoRoT LRa02 as a target for asteroseismology.