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most citedChronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way

129 citations · 809 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

Modelling the effect of stellar metallicity on the XUV evolution of low-mass stars and its impact on exoplanet atmospheres/habitability

Victor See, Charlotte Fairman, Louis Amard +1

Understanding how exoplanet atmospheres evolve is a key question in the context of habitability. One key process governing this evolution is atmospheric evaporation by stellar X-ra…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Stellar Cruise Control: Weakened Magnetic Braking Leads to Sustained Rapid Rotation of Old Stars

Nicholas Saunders, Jennifer L. van Saders, Alexander J. Lyttle +8

Despite a growing sample of precisely measured stellar rotation periods and ages, the strength of magnetic braking and the degree of departure from standard (Skumanich-like) spindo…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

Inferring the Rotation Period Distribution of Stars from their Projected Rotation Velocities and Radii: Application to late-F/early-G Kepler Stars

Kento Masuda, Erik A. Petigura, Oliver J. Hall

While stellar rotation periods may be measured from broadband photometry, the photometric modulation becomes harder to detect for slower rotators, which could bias…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 24 cited

TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Light Curve Systematics Correction

Mikkel N. Lund, Rasmus Handberg, Derek L. Buzasi +7

Data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has produced of order one million light curves at cadences of 120 s and especially 1800 s for every ~27-day observing sec…

astro-ph.IM2021

TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Photometry

Rasmus Handberg, Mikkel N. Lund, Timothy R. White +12

Over the last two decades, asteroseismology has increasingly proven to be the observational tool of choice for the study of stellar physics, aided by the high quality of data avail…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 24 cited

Hierarchically modelling Kepler dwarfs and subgiants to improve inference of stellar properties with asteroseismology

Alexander J. Lyttle, Guy R. Davies, Tanda Li +9

With recent advances in modelling stars using high-precision asteroseismology, the systematic effects associated with our assumptions of stellar helium abundance () and the mixi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 94 cited

Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs

Oliver J. Hall, Guy R. Davies, Jennifer van Saders +9

Studies using asteroseismic ages and rotation rates from star-spot rotation have indicated that standard age-rotation relations may break down roughly half-way through the main seq…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the Continuous Viewing Zones and beyond

J. Ted Mackereth, Andrea Miglio, Yvonne Elsworth +30

The NASA- mission presents a treasure trove for understanding the stars it observes and the Milky Way, in which they reside. We present a first look at the prospects for…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 44 cited

PBjam: A Python package for automating asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators

M. B. Nielsen, G. R. Davies, W. H. Ball +14

Asteroseismology is an exceptional tool for studying stars by using the properties of observed modes of oscillation. So far the process of performing an asteroseismic analysis of a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 129 cited

Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way

Josefina Montalbán, John Ted Mackereth, Andrea Miglio +16

The standard cosmological model (-CDM) predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales. The Milky Way, like other disc galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star Indi

William J. Chaplin, Aldo M. Serenelli, Andrea Miglio +81

Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies. While these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematic…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 54 cited

Detection and characterisation of oscillating red giants: first results from the TESS satellite

Víctor Silva Aguirre, Dennis Stello, Amalie Stokholm +78

Since the onset of the `space revolution' of high-precision high-cadence photometry, asteroseismology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for informing Galactic archaeology in…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Astrobites as a Community-led Model for Education, Science Communication, and Accessibility in Astrophysics

Gourav Khullar, Susanna Kohler, Tarini Konchady +21

Support for early career astronomers who are just beginning to explore astronomy research is imperative to increase retention of diverse practitioners in the field. Since 2010, Ast…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 56 cited

Testing asteroseismology with Gaia DR2: Hierarchical models of the Red Clump

Oliver J. Hall, Guy R. Davies, Yvonne P. Elsworth +8

Asteroseismology provides fundamental stellar parameters independent of distance, but subject to systematics under calibration. Gaia DR2 has provided parallaxes for a billion stars…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 8 cited

FliPer: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets

L. Bugnet, R. A. García, S. Mathur +4

The NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is about to provide full-frame images of almost the entire sky. The amount of stellar data to be analysed represents hundred…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 95 cited

A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS

Daniel Huber, William J. Chaplin, Ashley Chontos +139

We present the discovery of TOI-197.01, the first transiting planet identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) for which asteroseismology of the host star is po…

astro-ph.SR2018

FliPer: Classifying TESS pulsating stars

L. Bugnet, R. A. García, G. R. Davies +3

The recently launched NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is going to collect lightcurves for a few hundred million of stars and we expect to increase the num…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 35 cited

FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of main-sequence Solar-like stars and red giants

L. Bugnet, R. A. García, G. R. Davies +4

Asteroseismology provides global stellar parameters such as masses, radii or surface gravities using the mean global seismic parameters as well as the effective temperature for tho…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 53 cited

The Red-Giant Branch Bump Revisited: Constraints on Envelope Overshooting in a Wide Range of Masses and Metallicities

Saniya Khan, Oliver J. Hall, Andrea Miglio +4

The red-giant branch bump provides valuable information for the investigation of the internal structure of low-mass stars. Because current models are unable to accurately predict t…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 35 cited

Using red clump stars to correct the Gaia DR1 parallaxes

Guy R. Davies, Mikkel N. Lund, Andrea Miglio +14

Recent results have suggested that there is tension between the Gaia DR1 TGAS distances and the distances obtained using luminosities determined by eclipsing binaries or asteroseis…