Overview

Ground-based observations have detected solar-like oscillations on Sun-like stars, and diagnostics similar to those used in helioseismology are now being used to test and constrain the physics and evolutionary state of these stars. Multi-mode oscillations are being observed in an abundance of other stars, including slowly pulsating B stars (SPB stars), delta-Scuti stars, Ap stars and the pulsating white dwarfs. New classes of pulsators continue to be discovered across the Herzsprung-Russell diagram. Yet the challenges still to be faced to make asteroseismology across the HR diagram a reality are formidable. Observation, data analysis and theory all pose hard problems to be overcome. This book aims to facilitate a cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches between fields covering different pulsators and with different areas of expertise. It covers most known types of pulsators, reflecting a productive and far-reaching interchange of ideas, which should make it a useful reference for researchers and postgraduate students working on stellar structure and evolution.

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Author:   Michael J. Thompson ,  Margarida S. Cunha ,  Mário J.P.F.G. Monteiro
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.370kg
ISBN:  

9781402011733

ISBN 10:   1402011733
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   31 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Space and Ground Based Data for Asteroseismology.- STARE Results on a Single Field: Tens of New Pulsating Stars.- The Eddington Mission.- Present Observational Status of Solar-Type Stars.- Present Observational Status of the Intermediate Mass Stars.- Present Observational Status of High Mass Pulsating Stars.- Old Pulsators: White Dwarfs and their Immediate Precursors.- ? Scuti Pulsations in Pre-Main Sequence Stars.- Solar-like Oscillations in Semiregular Variables.- Discovery of a New Class of Pulsating Stars: Gravity Mode Pulsators among Subdwarf B Stars.- Recent Observations of PMS ? Scuti Stars.- Multicolour Photometry for Mode Identification.- High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Mode Identification.- Theoretical Clues for Mode Identification — Instability Ranges and Rotational Splitting Patterns.- Peakbagging for Solar-Like Stars.- Mode Identification from Line Profiles Using the Direct Fitting Technique.- Statistical Revision of the Moment Method.- An Improved Method of Photometric Mode Identification: Applications to Slowly Pulsating B, ? Cephei, ? Scuti and ? Doradus Stars.- Photometric Nonadiabatic Observables in Rotating ß Cephei Models.- Gravity Modes in Delta Scuti Stars.- Seismic Inference Using Genetic Algorithms.- Stellar Inversions.- On the Principal Asteroseismic Diagnostic Signatures.- Diagnostics of the Internal Structure of Stars Using the Differential Response Technique.- Stellar Convection.- Mixing and Diffusion in Stars.- Are Pulsation and Magnetic Axes Aligned in roAp Stars?.- Seismic Diagnostics of Stellar Convection Treatment from Oscillation Amplitudes of p-Modes.- Of Variability, or its Absence, in HgMn Stars.- A Study of the Solar-Like Properties of ? Hydri.- Giant Vibrations in Dip.- Stochastic Excitation of Gravity Waves by Overshooting Convection in Solar-Type Stars.- p-Mode Oscillations of ? Cen A.- Outstanding Issues for the Pulsation of Young Stars.- Outstanding Issues for Post-Main Sequence Evolution: Instability Strips and Excitation of Modes in Compact Pulsators.- Hot Subdwarfs: Magnetic, Oscillatory and other Physical Properties.- Nonlinearity of Nonradial Modes in Evolved Stars.- Summary: Problems, Connections and Expectations.

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