Ensemble Asteroseismology of Solar-Type Stars with the NASA Kepler Mission

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2011-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/1109.4723v1

Science, 2011, volume 332, page 213

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

20 pages, including on-line supporting material

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1201827

In addition to its search for extra-solar planets, the NASA Kepler Mission provides exquisite data on stellar oscillations. We report the detections of oscillations in 500 solartype stars in the Kepler field of view, an ensemble that is large enough to allow statistical studies of intrinsic stellar properties (such as mass, radius and age) and to test theories of stellar evolution. We find that the distribution of observed masses of these stars shows intriguing differences to predictions from models of synthetic stellar populations in the Galaxy.

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