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Estimating ages for stars is difficult at best, but Galactic problems have their own requirements that go beyond those for other areas of astrophysics. As in other areas, asteroseismology is helping, and in this review I discuss some of the general problems encountered and some specific to large-scale studies of the Milky Way.
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Soderblom, D.R. (2015). Ages of Stars: Methods and Uncertainties. In: Miglio, A., Eggenberger, P., Girardi, L., Montalbán, J. (eds) Asteroseismology of Stellar Populations in the Milky Way. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10993-0_1
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