A- and B-type star pulsations in the Kepler and CoRoT era: observational results

Uytterhoeven, K.
Bibliographical reference

Putting A Stars into Context: Evolution, Environment, and Related Stars, Proceedings of the international conference held on June 3-7, 2013 at Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia. Eds.: G. Mathys, E. Griffin, O. Kochukhov, R. Monier, G. Wahlgren, Moscow: Publishing house "Pero", 2014, p. 286-294

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2014
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The CoRoT and Kepler space missions have commenced a golden era in the field of asteroseismology. The precise and long-term uninterrupted photometric time series from space, now available for thousands of stars, enable the detection of low-amplitude frequencies, revealing new and surprising pulsational results. From the following overview of the most remarkable observational results for A- and B-type pulsators it becomes clear that space photometry is providing more questions than answers, as the observational results often pose challenges for the current pulsational models. Moreover, for these more massive pulsators on the main sequence it has become clear that complementary ground-based observations play a very important role in the interpretation of the space data.