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ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW
Volume 25, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-017-0101-x
Keywords
Asteroseismology; Stars: oscillations (including pulsations); Stars: evolution; Stars: red giants
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- Max Planck Society
- European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC [338251, 267864]
- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF106]
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The internal properties of stars in the red-giant phase undergo significant changes on relatively short timescales. Long near-uninterrupted high-precision photometric timeseries observations from dedicated space missions such as CoRoT and Kepler have provided seismic inferences of the global and internal properties of a large number of evolved stars, including red giants. These inferences are confronted with predictions from theoretical models to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Our knowledge and understanding of red giants have indeed increased tremendously using these seismic inferences, and we anticipate that more information is still hidden in the data. Unraveling this will further improve our understanding of stellar evolution. This will also have significant impact on our knowledge of the Milky Way Galaxy as well as on exo-planet host stars. The latter is important for our understanding of the formation and structure of planetary systems.
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