8 November 2021: During the Branco Weiss new fellow online symposium, I got a chance to present my project which involves combining stellar models with spectroscopic and seismic observations of stars to explore the impact of stellar interior physics on the nature and sizes of stellar cores. Detailed insights on stellar interior structures and physics are currently being made possible through the study of stellar oscillations, which are stochastically excited and intrinsically damped by turbulence in the outermost layers of stellar convective envelopes (i.e., Asteroseismology).
These oscillations are similar to those observed in the Sun, thus known as solar-like oscillations. Solar-like oscillations carry information allowing fundamental stellar parameters (e.g. radius, mass, and age) to be precisely determined, while also paving the way for the interior stellar structure to be constrained to unprecedented levels; given that individual oscillation mode frequencies are measured. In a nutshell, the schematic figure on the left shows the scientific graphical abstract of the project.
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