14 papers
Assessment of PLATO Science Performance
Juan Cabrera, Heike Rauer, Reza Samadi +121
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch early 2027. In this paper we present an overview of the performance drivers for the mission at the time where all flight models of the cam…
The PLATO Science Calibration and Validation Plan: Targets for the First Long-pointing Field
Konstanze Zwintz, Conny Aerts, Andrew Tkachenko +56
In order to meet the science goals of the PLATO space mission, an extensive science calibration and validation plan has been designed. This paper describes this plan, as well as th…
Isochrone-cloud fitting and asteroseismology of the Kepler open cluster NGC6866
Haotian Wang, Gang Li, Dario J. Fritzewski +2
We investigate how isochrones computed with different input physics and initial conditions affect the age dating of the open cluster NGC 6866, and compare the results with asterose…
Exploiting tidal asteroseismology in binary populations from combined space photometry and time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy
Ema Šipková, Alex Kemp, Dario Fritzewski +4
Space-based photometry has substantially increased the number of pulsating stars found in binary systems by more than four orders of magnitude. Combined with high-resolution spectr…
Beyond prewhitening: detection of gravity modes and their period spacings in slowly pulsating B stars using the multitaper F-test
Aarya A. Patil, Conny Aerts, Nikki Y. N. Wang +2
Gravity modes in main-sequence stars have traditionally been studied using a prewhitening approach, which iteratively identifies modes in the Fourier domain and subsequently tunes…
Inferring main-sequence stage and buoyancy-glitch amplitudes from Fourier spectra of gravity-mode period spacings: Ensemble Analysis of 26 Slowly Pulsating B Stars
Zhao Guo, Conny Aerts
Gravito-inertial-mode asteroseismology of intermediate-mass main-sequence stars took off with the 5-month uninterrupted light curves of the CoRoT space mission. It was developed in…