An Introduction to Data Analysis in Asteroseismology
Abstract
A practical guide is presented to some of the main data analysis concepts and techniques employed contemporarily in the asteroseismic study of stars exhibiting solar-like oscillations. The subjects of digital signal processing and spectral analysis are introduced first. These concern the acquisition of continuous physical signals to be subsequently digitally analyzed. A number of specific concepts and techniques relevant to asteroseismology are then presented as we follow the typical workflow of the data analysis process, namely, the extraction of global asteroseismic parameters and individual mode parameters (also known as peak-bagging) from the oscillation spectrum.
- Publication:
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Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds
- Pub Date:
- 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-3-319-59315-9_3
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1711.01959
- Bibcode:
- 2018ASSP...49...55C
- Keywords:
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- Physics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Lecture presented at the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences on "Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds" (arXiv:1709.00645), which took place in Horta, Azores Islands, Portugal in July 2016