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Asteroseismology: From Dream to Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

D. W. Kurtz
D. W. Kurtz*
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR12HE, UK

Abstract

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With the resounding success of Helioseismology in determining the interior structure and rotation of the Sun, and in providing unprecedented studies of the interaction of pulsation and magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere, astronomers have been delighted, after decades of disappointing attempts, with the recent discovery of solar-like oscillations in ξHya, β Hyi, αCen, η Boo and νInd. There is now true seismology of a variety of solar-like stars. Asteroseismology also studies stars with a wide variety of interior and surface conditions. For two decades asteroseismic techniques have been applied to many pulsating stars across the HR Diagram. This review describes for non-specialists pulsation modes in stars and discusses a selection of some of the successes already accomplished in asteroseismology.

Type
I. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 391 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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