Asteroseismology: Golden Opportunities for Astrophysics

Asteroseismology has been bringing breakthrough science for more than a decade. In this webinar, 2022 Kavli laureate Conny Aerts will introduce the basic principles of asteroseismology and explain its capacity to probe stellar interiors. It will be shown how applications to sun-like stars and red giants feed exoplanetary and galactic science.

The talk will then focus on more recent applications to stars rotating much faster than the Sun. We discuss how gravito-inertial asteroseismology offers to estimate the internal rotation and chemical mixing deep inside stars, with major implications for stellar evolution. We end with exciting future opportunities for this booming research field of astrophysics from the future ESA PLATO space mission under construction.