Asteroseismology and the Solar-Stellar Connection

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2008-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/0808.3136v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 7 figures, proc. SOHO XXI/GONG 2008, minor updates to v1

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In March 2009, NASA will launch the Kepler satellite -- a mission designed to discover habitable Earth-like planets around distant Sun-like stars. The method that Kepler will use to detect distant worlds will only reveal the size of the planet relative to the size of the host star, so part of the mission is devoted to characterizing other suns using asteroseismology. In this proceedings, I give a broad overview of the Kepler mission and the data that it will produce, with a special emphasis on how it could improve our understanding of solar and stellar dynamos. I conclude with an update on the development of a stellar modeling pipeline for interpreting asteroseismic observations.

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