The golden gift of red giants Arlette Noels-Grotsch, Andrea Miglio

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noels-Grotsch, Arlette, author.

Miglio, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red giants.

Astroseismology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) IOP Publishing [2025]

Biography/History:

Arlette Noels-Grotsch was Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Liège, Belgium. She served as Belgian PI of the CoRoT space mission (2006-2014). Andrea Miglio is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Bologna, where he uses asteroseismology to study stellar interiors and the Milky Way's evolution

Summary:

Once considered secondary targets, red giant stars have become central to asteroseismology thanks to missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS. These stars now offer precise insights into stellar masses, radii, ages, and evolutionary stages. Combined with spectroscopic (APOGEE) and astrometric (Gaia) data, they help answer key questions about stellar and galactic evolution. This book explores how red giants evolved into such valuable scientific tools, what we call The Golden Gift of Red Giants. It traces the life cycle of low-mass stars and showcases how space-based asteroseismic data are transforming our understanding of the cosmos

Contents:

1. Story of an evolving low mass star : foreword

2. Pre main sequence

PMS

2.1. Hayashi track

2.2. Mean stellar temperature during gravitational contraction

2.3. Duration of the PMS phase

2.4. List of questions

3. Core hydrogen burning

3.1. Minimum mass for nuclear burning

3.2. Onset of nuclear reactions

3.3. Main sequence (MS)

3.4. Terminal age main sequence

turn-off

3.5. List of questions

4. Post main sequence

4.1. Formation of an isothermal helium core

4.2. Schönberg-Chandrasekhar mass limit

4.3. Crossing the Hertzsprung gap

4.4. List of questions

5. Red giant phase

5.1. Ages of red giants

5.2. Ascending the RGB

5.3. First dredge-up and RGB bump

5.4. List of questions

6. Core helium burning

6.1. Onset of core helium burning

6.2. Quiescent core helium burning

6.3. List of questions

7. Asymptotic giant branch

7.1. Early AGB phase (EAGB phase)

7.2. Thermally pulsating AGB phase (TP-AGB phase)

7.3. List of questions

8. On the way to white dwarf cooling

8.1. List of questions

9. Epilogue

10. Asteroseismology of red giant stars

10.1. Global oscillation modes in red giant stars

10.2. Inference on global stellar properties

10.3. Direct constraints on the internal structure

10.4. A bright future for asteroseismology and stellar physics

Notes:

"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-1-11-4)

Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750321594

9780750321587

OCLC:

1530187365

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