Main-sequence oscillators as a test of stellar opacities
Abstract
The last decade has given rise to several tensions between calculated and (sometimes indirectly) measured stellar opacities. I discuss the current and future capacity for the asteroseismology of B-type oscillators (slowly-pulsating B-type stars and β Cepheids) and main-sequence solar-like oscillators to test stellar opacities. I briefly highlight two methods by which the B-type oscillators already constrain opacities, though they do not yet identify a superior set of tables. I then consider how the main-sequence solar-like oscillators might also test opacities, using the 16 Cygni system as an example. There are currently greater uncertainties than the opacities (in this example, the atmospheric structure) but many of these will be separately constrained in the near future.
- Publication:
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IAU Focus Meeting
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUFM..29B.653B
- Keywords:
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- radiative transfer;
- stars: oscillations