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SUMMARY:A Golden Age of Asteroseismology with Kepler - Tim Bedding (U Sydn
 ey)
DTSTART:20181011T150000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Stellar astrophysics has entered a new golden age\, thanks to 
 wonderfully\nprecise measurements being returned by NASA's Kepler mission.
  Kepler is a\n0.9-metre space telescope that has been monitoring the brigh
 tness of more\nthan 100\,000 stars with extraordinary accuracy for more th
 an four years.\nIts main goal is to discover extra-solar planets by detect
 ing the small\ndips in light as they transit their parent stars.  The miss
 ion has been\nspectacularly successful\, with thousands of candidates repo
 rted.\nMeanwhile\, Kepler's observations of oscillations in thousands of s
 tars have\nled to a revolution in asteroseismology.  I will review key res
 ults include\ndetecting gravity modes in red giant stars and characterizin
 g stars found\nto host exoplanets. Results from ESA's Gaia mission will ad
 d to the\nexcitement\, as will the launch of TESS\, which is an all-sky fo
 llow-up\nmission to Kepler.\n
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)
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