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~~ The Internal Constitution of stars ~~

Eddington (1926 )

“We should be unwise to trust scientific inference very far when it becomes divorced from opportunity for observational test”

PUBLICATIONS

Campante, T. L., Corsaro, Enrico, ..., Nsamba, Benard et al., (2019). TESS Asteroseismology of the Known Red-giant Host Stars HD 212771 and HD 203949 . APJ, 885, 31.

Nsamba, B., Campante, T. L., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Cunha, M. S., and Sousa, S. G. (2019). On the nature of the core of α Centauri A: the impact of the metallicity mixture. Front. Astron. Space Sci. - Stellar and Solar Physics. 6, 25.

Daniel Huber, William J. Chaplin, ..., Benard Nsamba et al. (2019). A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS. AJ . 157, 6.

Ben M. Rendle, Gael Buldgen, ..., Benard Nsamba (2019). AIMS - A new tool for stellar parameter determinations using asteroseismic constraints. MNRAS. 484, 771

Nsamba, B., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Campante, T. L., Cunha M. S., and Sousa, S. G. (2018). α Centauri A as a potential stellar model calibrator: establishing the nature of its core. MNRAS, 479, L55 - L59.

Nsamba, B., Campante, T. L., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Cunha, M. S., Rendle, B. M., Reese, D. R., and Verma, K. (2018). Asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars: internal systematics from input physics and surface correction methods. MNRAS, 477, 5052 - 5063.

Nsamba, B., Edward, J., and Simon, K. A. (2014). Mass Loss and Age of the RGC Stars in the Kepler Cluster NGC 6819 . LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN-10: 3659637149.

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Conference Proceedings

Nsamba, B., Campante, T. L., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Cunha, M. S., Rendle, B. M., Reese, D. R., and Verma, K. (2018). Model physics in low-mass solar-type stars: atomic diffusion and metallicity mixture. Proceeding of PHOST (Physics of Oscillating Stars) conference. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1468510

Nsamba, B., Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G., Campante, T. L., Reese, D. R., White, T. R., Garc´Ä±a Hern´andez, A., and Jiang, C. (2017). Asteroseismic modelling of the Binary HD 176465. In European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 160, 05010.

Selected Conference Talks/Posters

University of Granada, Fısica Teorica y del Cosmos Dept.                                                                                        Dec. 15 - 21, 2019

Granada - Spain.

                Invited talk title: Asteroseismic characterization of exoplanet-host stars in preparation for NASAs TESS and ESAs PLATO                                                 space mission.

Dynamics of the Sun & Stars: Honoring the Life Work of Michael Thompson                                                      Sept. 24 - 26, 2019

Colorado - USA.

                Contributed talk title: Asteroseismic stellar modelling: In-depth exploration of the treatment of the initial helium abundance

Workshop on “How to Determine Stellar Masses?”                                                                                                   Nov. 19 - 23, 2018

Lorentz Center@Oort - Netherlands.

                Contributed talk title: Stellar mass and core properties of solar-type stars: impact of model physics

TASC4/KASC11 workshop                                                                                                                                              July 8 - 13, 2018

Stellar Astrophysics Center (SAC), Aarhus University - Denmark

                Contributed talk title: Asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars: internal systematics from input physics and surface                                                                correction methods.

National Meeting of Physics Students (ENEF18)                                                                                                      February 23, 2018  Universidade do Porto, Portugal
                Invited talk title: Convective vs. Radiative: What can asteroseismology reveal about the nature of the core of α Cen A?

Asteroseismology and Optical Interferometry workshop                                                                                               Oct. 4 - 6, 2017 

Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur Mont-Gros, Nice - France

                Contributed talk title: Impact of an interferometric radius on modelling bright stars

4th internal workshop, IA-ON4                                                                                                                                     Oct. 30 - 31, 2017

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Lisboa - Portugal

                Contributed talk title: Possibility of a convective core in α Cen A

Fourth East African Astronomy Workshop                                                                                                        June 30 - July 04, 2014

University of Rwanda - College of Education, Kigali - Rwanda
                Contributed talk title: Mass loss and age of stars in the red giant clump

PLATO STESCI Workshop III                                                                                                                                     Nov. 19 - 22, 2019

Barcelona, Spain

                Poster title: Asteroseismic stellar modelling: In-depth exploration of the treatment of theinitial helium abundance

TASC3/KASC10 Workshop “TESSting Stellar Astrophysics”                                                                             July 16 - 21, 2017  University of Birmingham Campus, Birmingham, UK
                Poster title: Exploring uncertainties in stellar physics models of solar-type stars

TASC2/KASC9 Workshop                                                                                                                                              July 11 - 15, 2016

Angra do Heroısmo, Terceira-Acores, Portugal

                Poster title: Asteroseismic modelling of the Binary HD 176465

CoRoT3/KASC7 Workshop “The Space Photometry Revolution”                                                                 July 6 - 11, 2014  Espaces Vanel, Toulouse - France
                Poster title: Mass loss and age of stars in the red giant clump

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