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The observational basis for asteroseismology is being dramatically strengthened, through more than two years of data from the CoRoT satellite, the flood of data coming from the Kepler mission and, in the slightly longer term, from dedicated ground-based facilities. Our ability to utilize these data depends on further development of techniques for basic data analysis, as well as on an improved understanding of the relation between the observed frequencies and the underlying properties of the stars. Also, stellar modelling must be further developed, to match the increasing diagnostic potential of the data. Here we discuss some aspects of data interpretation and modelling, focusing on the important case of stars with solar-like oscillations.
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Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Houdek, G. Prospects for asteroseismology. Astrophys Space Sci 328, 51–66 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-009-0227-z
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