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Stellar hydrodynamics caught in the act: Asteroseismology with CoRoT and Kepler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2011

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark email: jcd@phys.au.dk
Michael J. Thompson
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA email: mjt@ucar.edu
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Abstract

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Asteroseismic investigations, particularly based on data on stellar oscillations from the CoRoT and Kepler space missions, are providing unique possibilities for investigating the properties of stellar interiors. This constitutes entirely new ways to study the effects of dynamic phenomena on stellar structure and evolution. Important examples are the extent of convection zones and the associated mixing and the direct and indirect effects of stellar rotation. In addition, the stellar oscillations themselves show very interesting dynamic behaviour. Here we discuss examples of the results obtained from such investigations, across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.