PREDICTING THE DETECTABILITY OF OSCILLATIONS IN SOLAR-TYPE STARS OBSERVED BY KEPLER

Journal Article · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/54· OSTI ID:21574628

Chaplin, W J; Elsworth, Y; Verner, G A ^[1]; Kjeldsen, H; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J; Karoff, C ^[2]; Bedding, T R ^[3]; Gilliland, R L ^[4]; Kawaler, S D ^[5]; Appourchaux, T ^[6]; Garcia, R A ^[7]; Houdek, G ^[8]; Metcalfe, T S; Thompson, M J ^[9]; Molenda-Zakowicz, J ^[10]; Batalha, N; Borucki, W J; Bryson, S T ^[11]; Brown, T M ^[12]

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1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C (Denmark)
3. Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia)
4. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (United States)
6. Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Universite Paris XI, CNRS (UMR8617), Batiment 121, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
7. Laboratoire AIM, CEA/DSM, CNRS, Universite Paris Diderot, IRFU/SAp, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
8. Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, A-1180 Vienna (Austria)
9. High Altitude Observatory and, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307 (United States)
10. Astronomical Institute, University of Wroclaw, ul. Kopernika, 11, 51-622 Wroclaw (Poland)
11. NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-30, Moffett Field, CA 94035 (United States)
12. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Goleta, CA 93117 (United States)

Asteroseismology of solar-type stars has an important part to play in the exoplanet program of the NASA Kepler Mission. Precise and accurate inferences on the stellar properties that are made possible by the seismic data allow very tight constraints to be placed on the exoplanetary systems. Here, we outline how to make an estimate of the detectability of solar-like oscillations in any given Kepler target, using rough estimates of the temperature and radius, and the Kepler apparent magnitude.

• OSTI ID: 21574628
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 732, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/54; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
DETECTION
OSCILLATIONS
STARS