Asteroseismology

• Main Authors: Aerts, C. (Author), Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (Author), Kurtz, D. W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5803-5

The recent research domain of asteroseismology studies the internal structure of stars, which is not directly observable, through the interpretation of the frequency spectra of stellar oscillations. The basic principles of asteroseismology are very similar to those developed by earth seismologists....

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Introducing asteroseismology
• 2 Stellar oscillations across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
• 3 Theory of stellar oscillations
• 4 Observational techniques
• 5 Frequency analysis
• 6 Modeidentification
• 7 Applications of asteroseismology
• 8 Thefuture
• Bibliography
• A Summary of the different classes of stellar pulsators
• B Properties of Legendre functions and spherical harmonics
• C Mathematical preliminaries
• D Adiabatic oscillations in an isothermal atmosphere
• E Asymptotic theory of stellar oscillations
• Subject index
• Object index
• Acronym definition index.