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astro-ph.SR2026

The Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) -- A Legacy Archive of Stellar Time-Domain Spectroscopy

M. N. Lund, F. Grundahl, M. S. Fredslund +41

The Stellar Observations Network Group (SONG) network has operated for more than a decade, providing long-baseline, high-cadence spectroscopic observations of bright stars and the…

astro-ph.SR2026

TESS Asteroseismology of Red Giants in the Old Metal-Rich Open Clusters NGC 188 & NGC 6791

Madeline Howell, Jennifer A. Johnson, Marc H. Pinsonneault +5

Open clusters are fundamental laboratories for investigating stellar and Galactic evolution, and serve as important benchmarks for asteroseismic analyses. Using a boutique method t…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Asteroseismology of red giants in the globular cluster 47 Tuc using the HST

Dennis Stello, Timothy R. Bedding, Ronald L. Gilliland

Globular clusters provide unique opportunities to study stellar evolution -- as the second brightest cluster, 47 Tuc is a prime target. Asteroseismology can be used to measure prec…

astro-ph.SR2026

Global asteroseismology of 19,000 red giants in the TESS Continuous Viewing Zones

K. R. Sreenivas, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +5

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has produced long-term photometry for millions of stars across the sky. In this work, we present an asteroseismic catalogue of 19,151 r…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

High-fidelity stellar extinction with Gaia and APOGEE -- I. The method and a new extinction curve

Jie Yu, Luca Casagrande, John A. Taylor +9

The scarcity of high-fidelity extinction measurements remains a bottleneck in deriving accurate stellar properties from Gaia parallaxes. In this work, we aim to derive precision ex…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The highest mass Kepler red giants -- II. Spectroscopic parameters, the amplitude-activity relation, and unexpected halo orbits

Courtney L. Crawford, Yaguang Li, Daniel Huber +11

The high-mass (M2 \Msolar{}) Kepler red giant stars are less well-studied than their lower-mass counterparts. In the previous article, we presented a sample of 48 high-mass Kepl…

astro-ph.SR2025

Optical spectroscopic signatures of the red giant evolutionary state

Ella Xi Wang, Melissa Ness, Thomas Nordlander +17

Modern spectroscopic surveys output large data volumes. Theoretical models provide a means to transform the information encoded in these data to measurements of physical stellar pr…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS

Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li +28

We present time-series radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and, for the first time, SONG-Australia. We also analyse a s…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

Acoustic modes in M67 cluster stars trace deepening convective envelopes

Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Joel Ong +3

Acoustic oscillations in stars are sensitive to stellar interiors. Frequency differences between overtone modes -- large separations -- probe stellar density, while differences bet…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

Pushing the boundaries of asteroseismic individual frequency modelling: unveiling two evolved very-low metallicity red giants

Jens R. Larsen, Jakob L. Rørsted, Victor Aguirre Børsen-Koch +21

Metal-poor stars are key to understanding the first stellar generation in the Galaxy. Asteroseismic characterisation of red giants has traditionally relied on global seismic parame…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 11 cited

Asteroseismic Study of Subgiants and Giants of the Open Cluster M67 using Kepler/K2: Expanded Sample and Precise Masses

Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Marc Hon +7

Sparked by the asteroseismic space revolution, ensemble studies have been used to produce empirical relations linking observed seismic properties and fundamental stellar properties…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 12 cited

Modeling Asteroseismic Yields for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey

Trevor J. Weiss, Noah J. Downing, Marc H. Pinsonneault +10

The Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS) of the Roman Space Telescope will take high cadence data of the Galactic bulge. We investigate the asteroseismic potential of this sur…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 8 cited

Testing the wavelength dependence of oscillations and granulation in red giants using Kepler and TESS

K. R. Sreenivas, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +5

Stellar oscillations and granulation in red giants are both powered by convection. Studying the wavelength dependence of their amplitudes can provide useful insights on the driving…

astro-ph.SR2025

Resolving an Asteroseismic Catastrophe: Structural Diagnostics from p-mode Phase Functions off the Main Sequence

J. M. Joel Ong, Christopher J. Lindsay, Claudia Reyes +2

On the main sequence, the asteroseismic small frequency separation between radial and quadrupole p-modes is customarily interpreted to be a direct diagnostic of internal…

astro-ph.SR2024

Asteroseismic Masses of Red Giants in the Galactic Globular Clusters M9 & M19

Madeline Howell, Simon W. Campbell, Csilla Kalup +2

Asteroseismic masses of globular cluster (GC) stars are invaluable to investigate stellar evolution. Previously, only two GCs have been seismically studied. We present new detectio…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 70 cited

APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields

Marc H. Pinsonneault, Joel C. Zinn, Jamie Tayar +38

In the third APOKASC catalog, we present data for the complete sample of 15,808 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and Kepler asteroseismology. We used ten independ…

astro-ph.SR2024

Benchmarking the spectroscopic masses of 249 evolved stars using asteroseismology with TESS

Sai Prathyusha Malla, Dennis Stello, Benjamin T. Monet +5

One way to understand planet formation is through studying the correlations between planet occurrence rates and stellar mass. However, measuring stellar mass in the red giant regim…

astro-ph.SR2024

Asteroseismology of the Nearby K-Dwarf Draconis using the Keck Planet Finder and TESS

Marc Hon, Daniel Huber, Yaguang Li +76

Asteroseismology of dwarf stars cooler than the Sun is very challenging due to the low amplitudes and rapid timescales of oscillations. Here, we present the asteroseismic detection…

astro-ph.SR2024

Stellar Models are Reliable at Low Metallicity: An Asteroseismic Age for the Ancient Very Metal-Poor Star KIC 8144907

Daniel Huber, Ditte Slumstrup, Marc Hon +15

Very metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-2) are important laboratories for testing stellar models and reconstructing the formation history of our galaxy. Asteroseismology is a powerful tool…

astro-ph.SR2024

Realistic Uncertainties for Fundamental Properties of Asteroseismic Red Giants and the Interplay Between Mixing Length, Metallicity and

Yaguang Li, Timothy R. Bedding, Daniel Huber +8

Asteroseismic modelling is a powerful way to derive stellar properties. However, the derived quantities are limited by built-in assumptions used in stellar models. This work presen…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 21 cited

Isochrone fitting to the open cluster M67 in the era of Gaia and improved model physics

Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Marc Hon +3

The Gaia mission has provided highly accurate observations that have significantly reduced the scatter in the colour-magnitude diagrams of open clusters. As a result of the improve…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 12 cited

The K2 Asteroseismic KEYSTONE sample of Dwarf and Subgiant Solar-Like Oscillators. I: Data and Asteroseismic parameters

Mikkel N. Lund, Sarbani Basu, Allyson Bieryla +19

The KEYSTONE project aims to enhance our understanding of solar-like oscillators by delivering a catalogue of global asteroseismic parameters ( and ) for 173 s…

astro-ph.SR2024

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star Indi A

Mia S. Lundkvist, Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding +17

We have detected solar-like oscillations in the mid K-dwarf Indi A, making it the coolest dwarf to have measured oscillations. The star is noteworthy for harboring a…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 23 cited

Nature vs. Nurture: Distinguishing Effects from Stellar Processing and Chemical Evolution on Carbon and Nitrogen in Red Giant Stars

John D. Roberts, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Jennifer A. Johnson +16

The surface [C/N] ratios of evolved giants are strongly affected by the first dredge-up (FDU) of nuclear-processed material from stellar cores. C and N also have distinct nucleosyn…