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Asteroseismic data analysis : foundations and techniques /
Studies of stars and stellar populations, and the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, are being revolutionized by new satellite and telescope observations of unprecedented quality and scope. Some of the most significant advances have been in the field of asteroseismology, the study of star...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Princeton series in modern observational astronomy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Different Types of Pulsators; 1.2 A Brief History of the Study of Solar-Type Oscillations; 1.3 Overview of the Data; 1.4 Scope of This Book; 1.5 Further Reading; 1.6 Exercises; 2 Theoretical Underpinnings: Modeling Stars; 2.1 The Equations of Stellar Structure and Evolution; 2.2 The Question of ∇; 2.3 Other Physical Processes; 2.4 Boundary Conditions; 2.5 Inputs to Stellar Models; 2.6 Modeling a Star; 2.7 Constructing Solar Models; 2.8 Constructing Stellar Models of a Given Mass, Radius, and Teff
- 2.9 Further Reading2.10 Exercises; 3 Theoretical Underpinnings: Stellar Oscillations; 3.1 The Equations of Stellar Oscillations; 3.2 Properties of Stellar Oscillations; 3.3 Changes in Frequencies in Response to Changes in Stellar Structure; 3.4 The Effects of Acoustic Glitches; 3.5 The Effects of Rotation; 3.6 Mode Excitation; 3.7 Further Reading; 3.8 Exercises; 4 Observational Data: Overview and Fundamentals; 4.1 Spatial Response of the Observations; 4.2 Photometric and Doppler Velocity Observations; 4.3 Other Contributions to the Observed Data; 4.4 Further Reading; 4.5 Exercises
- 5 Observational Data: Detailed Characteristics in the Frequency Domain5.1 Power Spectrum Estimation; 5.2 Statistics of the Power Spectrum; 5.3 Solar-Like Oscillations in the Frequency Domain; 5.4 Global Properties of the Oscillation Spectrum; 5.5 Frequency Spectrum of Granulation and Active-Region Signal; 5.6 Harmonic Structure from Transits, Eclipses, and Stellar Rotation; 5.7 Super-Nyquist Asteroseismology; 5.8 Further Reading; 5.9 Exercises; 6 Observational Data: Analysis of the Frequency Spectrum; 6.1 Statistical Tests: Example of Detection of Signatures of Individual Modes
- 6.2 Automated Detection of Oscillation Spectra6.3 Fundamentals of Peak-Bagging: Extraction of Individual Mode Parameters; 6.4 Peak-Bagging: Practicalities and Challenges; 6.5 Challenges for Peak-Bagging Posed by Mixed Modes; 6.6 Further Reading; 6.7 Exercises; 7 Drawing Inferences from Average Seismic Parameters; 7.1 The Direct Method; 7.2 Grid-Based Modeling; 7.3 Further Reading; 7.4 Exercises; 8 Interpreting Frequencies of Individual Modes: Comparing Frequencies; 8.1 Choosing the Physics of Models; 8.2 Effects of Different Model Parameters; 8.3 A Complicating Factor: The Surface Term
- 8.4 Common Ways of Constructing Models to Fit Frequencies8.5 Dealing with Avoided Crossings in Subgiants; 8.6 Modeling Red Giants; 8.7 Alternative Methods for Fitting Frequencies; 8.8 Analysis of Rotation; 8.9 Further Reading; 8.10 Exercises; 9 Interpreting Frequencies of Individual Modes: Other Diagnostics; 9.1 Learning from Combinations of Frequencies; 9.2 Fitting and Interpreting the Signature of Acoustic Glitches; 9.3 Analysis of Red Giants; 9.4 Further Reading; 9.5 Exercises; 10 Inverting Mode Frequencies; 10.1 The Inversion Equation; 10.2 The Regularized Least Squares Technique