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Asteroseismology of Red Giants as a Tool for Studying Stellar Populations: First Steps

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The detection of solar-like oscillations in G and K giants with the CoRoT and Keplerspace-based satellites allows robust constraints to be set on the mass and radius of such stars. The availability of these constraints for thousands of giants sampling different regions of the Galaxy promises to enrich our understanding on the Milky Way’s constituents. In this contribution we briefly recall which are the relevant constraints that red-giant seismology can currently provide to the study of stellar populations. We then present, for a few nearby stars, the comparison between radius and mass determined using seismic scaling relations and those obtained by other methods.

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    In the models used in Fig. 1, RGB mass loss is implemented adopting the Reimers (1975) prescription (see Girardi et al. 2000for more details).

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Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges FNRS for financial support, M. Barbieri, L. Girardi, J. Montalbán, T. Morel, B. Mosser, and A. Noels for enlightening discussions about seismology and stellar populations. Additional thanks are due to M. Barbieri and L. Girardi for their kind help with the code TRILEGAL, and to W. J. Chaplin for reading the manuscript.

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    Andrea Miglio

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Miglio, A. (2012). Asteroseismology of Red Giants as a Tool for Studying Stellar Populations: First Steps. In: Miglio, A., Montalbán, J., Noels, A. (eds) Red Giants as Probes of the Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18418-5_2

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