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How May Seismological Measurements Constrain Parameters of Stellar Structure?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Timothy M. Brown
Affiliation:
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK
Barbara W. Mihalas
Affiliation:
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 605 E. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61820, USA

Abstract

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Pulsation frequency separations, combined with other observations, can constrain the structural parameters of Sun-like stars. As an example, we treat a hypothetical visual binary system resembling α Cen.

Type
VI. Asteroseismology: theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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