Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 24, 2017).

Includes index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Different Types of Pulsators; 1.2 A Brief History of the Study of Solar-Type Oscillations; 1.3 Overview of the Data; 1.4 Scope of This Book; 1.5 Further Reading; 1.6 Exercises; 2 Theoretical Underpinnings: Modeling Stars; 2.1 The Equations of Stellar Structure and Evolution; 2.2 The Question of ∇; 2.3 Other Physical Processes; 2.4 Boundary Conditions; 2.5 Inputs to Stellar Models; 2.6 Modeling a Star; 2.7 Constructing Solar Models; 2.8 Constructing Stellar Models of a Given Mass, Radius, and Teff

2.9 Further Reading2.10 Exercises; 3 Theoretical Underpinnings: Stellar Oscillations; 3.1 The Equations of Stellar Oscillations; 3.2 Properties of Stellar Oscillations; 3.3 Changes in Frequencies in Response to Changes in Stellar Structure; 3.4 The Effects of Acoustic Glitches; 3.5 The Effects of Rotation; 3.6 Mode Excitation; 3.7 Further Reading; 3.8 Exercises; 4 Observational Data: Overview and Fundamentals; 4.1 Spatial Response of the Observations; 4.2 Photometric and Doppler Velocity Observations; 4.3 Other Contributions to the Observed Data; 4.4 Further Reading; 4.5 Exercises

5 Observational Data: Detailed Characteristics in the Frequency Domain5.1 Power Spectrum Estimation; 5.2 Statistics of the Power Spectrum; 5.3 Solar-Like Oscillations in the Frequency Domain; 5.4 Global Properties of the Oscillation Spectrum; 5.5 Frequency Spectrum of Granulation and Active-Region Signal; 5.6 Harmonic Structure from Transits, Eclipses, and Stellar Rotation; 5.7 Super-Nyquist Asteroseismology; 5.8 Further Reading; 5.9 Exercises; 6 Observational Data: Analysis of the Frequency Spectrum; 6.1 Statistical Tests: Example of Detection of Signatures of Individual Modes

6.2 Automated Detection of Oscillation Spectra6.3 Fundamentals of Peak-Bagging: Extraction of Individual Mode Parameters; 6.4 Peak-Bagging: Practicalities and Challenges; 6.5 Challenges for Peak-Bagging Posed by Mixed Modes; 6.6 Further Reading; 6.7 Exercises; 7 Drawing Inferences from Average Seismic Parameters; 7.1 The Direct Method; 7.2 Grid-Based Modeling; 7.3 Further Reading; 7.4 Exercises; 8 Interpreting Frequencies of Individual Modes: Comparing Frequencies; 8.1 Choosing the Physics of Models; 8.2 Effects of Different Model Parameters; 8.3 A Complicating Factor: The Surface Term

8.4 Common Ways of Constructing Models to Fit Frequencies8.5 Dealing with Avoided Crossings in Subgiants; 8.6 Modeling Red Giants; 8.7 Alternative Methods for Fitting Frequencies; 8.8 Analysis of Rotation; 8.9 Further Reading; 8.10 Exercises; 9 Interpreting Frequencies of Individual Modes: Other Diagnostics; 9.1 Learning from Combinations of Frequencies; 9.2 Fitting and Interpreting the Signature of Acoustic Glitches; 9.3 Analysis of Red Giants; 9.4 Further Reading; 9.5 Exercises; 10 Inverting Mode Frequencies; 10.1 The Inversion Equation; 10.2 The Regularized Least Squares Technique

Studies of stars and stellar populations, and the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, are being revolutionized by new satellite and telescope observations of unprecedented quality and scope. Some of the most significant advances have been in the field of asteroseismology, the study of stars by observation of their oscillations. Asteroseismic Data Analysis gives a comprehensive technical introduction to this discipline. This book not only helps students and researchers learn about asteroseismology; it also serves as an essential instruction manual for those entering the field. The book presents readers with the foundational techniques used in the analysis and interpretation of asteroseismic data on cool stars that show solar-like oscillations. The techniques have been refined, and in some cases developed, to analyze asteroseismic data collected by the NASA Kepler mission. Topics range from the analysis of time-series observations to extract seismic data for stars to the use of those data to determine global and internal properties of the stars. Reading lists and problem sets are provided, and data necessary for the problem sets are available online. The first book to describe in detail the different techniques used to analyze the data on stellar oscillations, Asteroseismic Data Analysis offers an invaluable window into the hearts of stars. Introduces the asteroseismic study of stars and the theory of stellar oscillationsDescribes the analysis of observational (time-domain) dataExamines how seismic parameters are extracted from observationsExplores how stellar properties are determined from seismic dataLooks at the "inverse problem," where frequencies are used to infer internal structures of stars

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