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PRISMA: A Mission to Study Interior and Surface of Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. Lemaire
P. Lemaire*
Affiliation:
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université de Paris XI, Batiment 121, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

Abstract

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New technics such as asteroseismology are able to sound the deep interior of stars and to provide the data that will constrain the modelisation of the core. This information will be combined with data collected from the stellar surface which give direct access to measurements of the radiative losses, angular momentum losses and distribution of active structures. From the two sets of data, the key role of the convection zone will be clarified, as the convection zone excites the waves that propagate through the whole star and generates the magnetic field that structures the stellar surface. The PRISMA mission was developed to collect the data needed for detecting the oscillations by very accurate photometry (micromagnitude) and to derive the surface activity and rotation from accurate ultraviolet spectroscopy. A short description of the model payload is given with the observational constraints related to the needed accuracy of measurements. Following the non-selection by ESA in may 1993, some following perspectives are described.

Type
Observational Projects
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 147: The Equation of State in Astrophysics , 1994 , pp. 540 - 544
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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