Testing stellar evolutionary theory with asteroseismology and/in binary stars

Authors
Dr.
Pieter Degroote
Date and time
25 Mar 2014 - 11:30 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

The theory of stellar evolution is well developed over the past decades, and in particular the predictions of one dimensional numerical models have passed basic observational tests. With the advent of high precision astronomical observations, these tests can now be improved to fine tune the physics of the models. In particular, the combination of exploiting binary properties with the information obtained from asteroseismology, proves to provide a promising test framework. However, both binarity and seismology increase the complexity of the observational models and their relation to the stellar evolutionary model, and therefore require as many independent tests as possible.