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Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds

IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences

  • Compiles the contributions from 18 invited lecturers who are widely recognized as leaders in their respective fields of research
  • A number of hands-on tutorials give the reader practical insight into some of the topics lectured at the School
  • The interdisciplinary nature of the book, combining stellar physics and exoplanetary science, will appeal to a wide readership
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSSP, volume 49)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Asteroseismology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Stellar Evolution and Modelling Stars

      • Víctor Silva Aguirre
      Pages 3-25
    3. Theory of Stellar Oscillations

      • Margarida S. Cunha
      Pages 27-54
    4. Stellar Inversion Techniques

      • Daniel R. Reese
      Pages 75-94
    5. Tutorial: Asteroseismic Stellar Modelling with AIMS

      • Mikkel N. Lund, Daniel R. Reese
      Pages 149-161
  3. Exoplanetary Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Exoplanetary Science: An Overview

      • Nuno C. Santos, João P. Faria
      Pages 165-180
    3. Deriving High-Precision Radial Velocities

      • Pedro Figueira
      Pages 181-197
    4. Characterization of Exoplanet-Host Stars

      • Vardan Adibekyan, Sérgio G. Sousa, Nuno C. Santos
      Pages 225-238
    5. Noise Sources in Photometry and Radial Velocities

      • Mahmoudreza Oshagh
      Pages 239-249
    6. Atmospheres of Exoplanets

      • David Ehrenreich
      Pages 251-266
    7. Tutorial: Detecting Planetary Transits and Radial-Velocity Signals

      • Susana Barros, João P. Faria
      Pages 267-274
    8. Tutorial: Measuring Stellar Atmospheric Parameters with ARES+MOOG

      • Sérgio G. Sousa, Daniel T. Andreasen
      Pages 275-282

About this book

This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled "Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds". The school addressed the topics at the forefront of scientific research being conducted in the fields of asteroseismology and exoplanetary science, two fields of modern astrophysics that share many synergies and resources. These proceedings comprise the contributions from 18 invited lecturers, including both monographic presentations and a number of hands-on tutorials.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Tiago L. Campante

  • Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Nuno C. Santos, Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro

About the editors

Tiago L. Campante is a Research Scientist at the University of Göttingen (Germany). His main research interests are focused on asteroseismology and exoplanetary science. He devotes most of his time to the asteroseismic investigation of solar-type stars and red giants, having developed a special interest in the characterization of exoplanet-host stars. Dr. Campante has been an active contributor to the asteroseismic program of the NASA Kepler mission, having also previously contributed to the analysis of seismic targets observed by the CoRoT space mission and during ground-based, radial-velocity campaigns. He is currently engaged in the stellar science preparation work for the upcoming NASA’s TESS and ESA’s PLATO missions.

Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro current research interests focus on the study of the internal structure of solar-type stars using asteroseismology. These efforts cover convection and convective overshooting in other stars as well as in the Sun, and theseismic determination of stellar parameters for the study of stellar evolution from the pre-main sequence up to the more advanced stages of evolution. He is an Associate Professor at the Universidade do Porto, Coordinator of the FCT Doctoral Network for Space Sciences (PhD::SPACE) and the Portuguese Delegate do the Science Programme Committee at ESA.

Nuno C. Santos is researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço and professor at the Departamento de Física e Astronomia of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. His main research interests include the search for Extrasolar planets using radial-velocity and transit techniques, the study of the statistical properties of extrasolar planets and their host stars, and the use of high resolution stellar spectroscopy for the determination of stellar atmospheric parameters and abundances in solar-type stars. He the national Co-PI of the ESPRESSO project for a new high resolution ultra-stable spectrograph for theVLT, and board member of the CHEOPS and PLATO (ESA) missions.


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Buying options

eBook USD 89.00
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
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