Bibcode
Stello, Dennis; Basu, Sarbani; Bruntt, Hans; Mosser, Benoît; Stevens, Ian R.; Brown, Timothy M.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Arentoft, Torben; Ballot, Jérôme; Barban, Caroline; Bedding, Timothy R.; Chaplin, William J.; Elsworth, Yvonne P.; García, Rafael A.; Goupil, Marie-Jo; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Mathur, Savita; Meibom, Søren; Sangaralingam, Vinothini; Baldner, Charles S.; Belkacem, Kevin; Biazzo, Katia; Brogaard, Karsten; Suárez, Juan Carlos; D'Antona, Francesca; Demarque, Pierre; Esch, Lisa; Gai, Ning; Grundahl, Frank; Lebreton, Yveline; Jiang, Biwei; Jevtic, Nada; Karoff, Christoffer; Miglio, Andrea; Molenda-Żakowicz, Joanna; Montalbán, Josefina; Noels, Arlette; Roca Cortés, T.; Roxburgh, Ian W.; Serenelli, Aldo M.; Silva Aguirre, Victor; Sterken, Christiaan; Stine, Peter; Szabó, Robert; Weiss, Achim; Borucki, William J.; Koch, David; Jenkins, Jon M.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 713, Issue 2, pp. L182-L186 (2010).
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2010
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Description
Asteroseismology of stars in clusters has been a long-sought goal
because the assumption of a common age, distance, and initial chemical
composition allows strong tests of the theory of stellar evolution. We
report results from the first 34 days of science data from the Kepler
Mission for the open cluster NGC 6819—one of the four clusters in
the field of view. We obtain the first clear detections of solar-like
oscillations in the cluster red giants and are able to measure the large
frequency separation, Δν, and the frequency of maximum
oscillation power, νmax. We find that the asteroseismic
parameters allow us to test cluster membership of the stars, and even
with the limited seismic data in hand, we can already identify four
possible non-members despite their having a better than 80% membership
probability from radial velocity measurements. We are also able to
determine the oscillation amplitudes for stars that span about 2 orders
of magnitude in luminosity and find good agreement with the prediction
that oscillation amplitudes scale as the luminosity to the power of 0.7.
These early results demonstrate the unique potential of asteroseismology
of the stellar clusters observed by Kepler.
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Helio and Astero-Seismology and Exoplanets Search
The principal objectives of this project are: 1) to study the structure and dynamics of the solar interior, 2) to extend this study to other stars, 3) to search for extrasolar planets using photometric methods (primarily by transits of their host stars) and their characterization (using radial velocity information) and 4) the study of the planetary
Savita
Mathur