https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905012
Solar-like pulsating stars as distance indicators: G-K giants in the CoRoT and Kepler fields
1 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK
2 Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Liège, Belgium
3 Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
4 LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France
5 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
a e-mail: a.miglio@bham.ac.uk
The detection of radial and non-radial solar-like oscillations in thousands of G-K giants with CoRoT and Kepler is paving the road for detailed studies of stellar populations in the Galaxy. The available average seismic constraints allow a precise and largely model-independent determination of stellar radii (hence distances) and masses. We here briefly report on the distance determination of thousands of giants in the CoRoT and Kepler fields of view.
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