The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal

Woitaszek, M. S., Metcalfe, T., Shorrock, I.. (2009). The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal.

Title The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal
Genre Conference Material
Author(s) Matthew S. Woitaszek, Travis Metcalfe, Ian Shorrock
Abstract The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal (AMP) provides a web-based interface for astronomers to derive the properties of Sun-like stars from observations of their pulsation frequencies. The primary motivation for AMP is NASA's recent launch of the Kepler satellite and its mission to identify potentially habitable Earthlike planets. Kepler detects planets by observing extrasolar transits--brief dips in observed brightness as a planet passes between its star and the satellite--that identify the size of the planet relative to the size of the star. Asteroseismology can be used to determine the precise absolute size of the star and thus the size of the planet. AMP makes an asteroseismology model available to a broad international community of researchers, facilitating automatic model execution and simplifying data sharing among research groups, consequently helping produce a uniform analysis of asteroseismic data for stars of interest.
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Publication Date Jun 25, 2009
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