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Paper: Ensemble Asteroseismology of Red-giant Stars
Volume: 462, Progress in Solar/Stellar Physics with Helio- and Asteroseismology
Page: 139
Authors: Hekker, S.; Gilliland, R. L.; Basu, S.; Ridder, J. t.; Chaplin, W. J.; Elsworth, Y.
Abstract: The successful launches of the CoRoT and Kepler space missions have led to the detections of solar-like oscillations in large samples of red-giant stars. The large numbers of red giants with observed oscillations make it possible to investigate the properties of the sample as a whole: ensemble asteroseismology. In this article we summarise ensemble asteroseismology results obtained from data released by the Kepler Science Team (∼150 000 field stars) as presented by Hekker et al. (2011b) and for the clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6811 and NGC 6819 (Hekker et al. 2011a); we discuss the importance of such studies.
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