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Asteroseismology of Exoplanet-Host Stars in the Kepler Era

By SpaceRef Editor
March 23, 2015
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Asteroseismology of Exoplanet-Host Stars in the Kepler Era

Tiago L. Campante

(Submitted on 20 Mar 2015)

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interior physics are being made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by the observation of their natural, resonant oscillations. Asteroseismology is making significant contributions to our understanding of solar-type stars, in great part due to the exquisite data that have been made available by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Of particular interest is the synergy between asteroseismology and exoplanetary science. Herein I will review recent contributions from asteroseismology to the determination of fundamental properties of Kepler exoplanet-host stars and stress its potential in constraining the spin-orbit alignment of exoplanet systems.

Comments:Submitted to IST Press, to appear in the Proceedings of “F\’ISICA 2014 – 19a Confer\^encia Nacional de F\’isica e 24o Encontro Ib\’erico para o Ensino da F\’isica”; 4 pages, 1 figure

Subjects:Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

Cite as:arXiv:1503.06113 [astro-ph.SR]

 (or arXiv:1503.06113v1 [astro-ph.SR] for this version)

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From: Tiago Campante 

[v1] Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:33:49 GMT (17kb)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06113

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