Asteroseismology with robotic telescopes
- Author(s)
- Gerald Handler
- Abstract
Asteroseismology explores the interior of pulsating stars by analysing their normal mode spectrum. The detection of a sufficient number of pulsation modes for seismic modelling of main sequence variables requires large quantities of high-precision time resolved photometry. Robotic telescopes have become an asset for asteroseismology because of their stable instrumentation, cost- and time-efficient operation and the potentially large amounts of observing time available. We illustrate these points by presenting selected results on several types of pulsating variables, such as d Scuti stars (main sequence and pre-main sequence), ? Doradus stars, rapidly oscillating Ap stars and ß Cephei stars, thereby briefly reviewing recent success stories of asteroseismic studies of main sequence stars.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- Journal
- Astronomische Nachrichten
- Volume
- 325
- Pages
- 507-512
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
- Publication date
- 2004
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/1bd8abdb-f546-4f43-a09c-d614dd0f21a1