Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of asteroseismology.
The discovery by Kurtz of phase coherent, rapid oscillations in certain Ap stars holds great promise for the new field of asterseismology.
1986, W Dziembowski, Philip R Goode, “Asterseismology for certain Ap stars”, in Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars, Springer, →DOI, pages 441–4512 more examples
The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of STars) was first Canadian space telescope dedicated to asterseismology and it got launched in 2003.
2013 May, Alexander M Jablonski, Daniel Showalter, “Recent Advances in Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) at the David Florida Laboratory and Associated Risks”, in Proceedings of the NATO AVT-210 Specialists’ Meeting on Risk and Reliability Assessment and Validation for Small Spacecrafts, pages 13–16Although the prime goal of the Kepler mission was to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting the host stars habitable zone (e.g. Borucki, et al. 2013), it has led to a revolution in the field of asterseismology across the HR diagram (e.g. Chaplin et al. 2014).
2016, Gavin Ramsay, Pasi Hakala, Matt A Wood, Steve B Howell, Alan Smale, Martin Still, Thomas Barclay, “Continuous ‘stunted’ outbursts detected from the cataclysmic variable KIC 9202990 using Kepler data”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 455, number 3, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 2772–2777
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