The golden gift of red giants /

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"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-1-11-4).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 questions3. 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 questions4. Post main sequence -- 4.1. Formation of an isothermal helium core -- 4.2. Sch?onberg-Chandrasekhar mass limit -- 4.3. Crossing the Hertzsprung gap -- 4.4. List of questions5. 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 questions6. Core helium burning -- 6.1. Onset of core helium burning -- 6.2. Quiescent core helium burning -- 6.3. List of questions7. Asymptotic giant branch -- 7.1. Early AGB phase (EAGB phase) -- 7.2. Thermally pulsating AGB phase (TP-AGB phase) -- 7.3. List of questions8. On the way to white dwarf cooling -- 8.1. List of questions9. 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.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.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.Postgraduates, students and researchers interested in using asteroseismology of red giant stars.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Arlette Noels-Grotsch was Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Li?ege, 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.Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2025).

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

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English

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9780750321594

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SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy.
Red giants.
Astroseismology.
Galaxies and stars.

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Arlette Noels-Grotsch, Andrea Miglio.

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