Abstract
Asteroseismology is the determination of the interior structures of stars by using their oscillations as seismic waves. Simple explanations of the astrophysical background and some basic theoretical considerations needed in this rapidly evolving field are followed by introductions to the most important concepts and methods on the basis of example. Previous and potential applications of asteroseismology are reviewed and future trends are attempted to be foreseen.
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I am grateful to Victoria Antoci, Tim Bedding, Günter Houdek, and Mike Montgomery for their comments on this manuscript, as well as to Joris De Ridder and Thomas Lebzelter for helpful input. Tim Bedding and Patrick Lenz provided some results reproduced here. I apologize to all colleagues whose work was not properly cited here due to a rigorous restriction on the total number of literature sources to be quoted in this chapter.
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Handler, G. (2013). Asteroseismology. In: Oswalt, T.D., Barstow, M.A. (eds) Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5615-1_4
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