Review of "Mode lifetimes of stellar oscillations", Chaplin et al. (2009, A&A, 500, 21)
| Date/Time: | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 from 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
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| Location: | 3 Physics Hall |
| Phone: | 515-294-2298 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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I will review this recent journal article which seeks to find a simple scaling relation between the mean lifetime of the most prominent solar-like p modes in stars and fundamental stellar parameters. The results of this study are important both for understanding near-surface convection in stars and for target selection in large asteroseismological studies.