Authors
William J Chaplin, Hans Kjeldsen, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Sarbani Basu, Andrea Miglio, Thierry Appourchaux, Timothy R Bedding, Yvonne Elsworth, RA García, RL Gilliland, L Girardi, G Houdek, C Karoff, SD Kawaler, TS Metcalfe, J Molenda-Żakowicz, MJPFG Monteiro, MJ Thompson, GA Verner, J Ballot, A Bonanno, IM Brandão, A-M Broomhall, H Bruntt, TL Campante, E Corsaro, OL Creevey, G Doğan, Louis Esch, N Gai, P Gaulme, SJ Hale, R Handberg, S Hekker, D Huber, A Jiménez, S Mathur, A Mazumdar, B Mosser, R New, MH Pinsonneault, D Pricopi, P-O Quirion, C Régulo, D Salabert, AM Serenelli, V Silva Aguirre, SG Sousa, D Stello, IR Stevens, MD Suran, K Uytterhoeven, TR White, WJ Borucki, TM Brown, JM Jenkins, K Kinemuchi, J Van Cleve, TC Klaus
Publication date
2011/4/8
Journal
Science
Volume
332
Issue
6026
Pages
213-216
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
In addition to its search for extrasolar planets, the NASA Kepler mission provides exquisite data on stellar oscillations. We report the detections of oscillations in 500 solar-type stars in the Kepler field of view, an ensemble that is large enough to allow statistical studies of intrinsic stellar properties (such as mass, radius, and age) and to test theories of stellar evolution. We find that the distribution of observed masses of these stars shows intriguing differences to predictions from models of synthetic stellar populations in the Galaxy.
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