Asteroseismology of Stellar Populations in the Milky Way

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Miglio, Andrea (Editor), Eggenberger, Patrick (Editor), Girardi, Léo (Editor), Montalbán, Josefina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 39
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

The detection of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in thousands of G-K giants with CoRoT and Kepler is paving the road for detailed studies of stellar populations in the Galaxy. The available average seismic constraints allow largely model-independent determination of stellar radii and m...