Stellar Structure Models Revisited: Evidence and Data in Asteroseismology

  1. Suárez, Mauricio
Libro:
Philosophy of Astrophysics Stars : Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There

Editorial: Springer

ISSN: 0166-6991,  2542-8292

ISBN: 9783031266171,  9783031266188

Año de publicación: 2023

Páginas: 111-129

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26618-8_7 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Resumen

This paper advances further an ongoing project to understand the history of stellar structure modelling and its inferential practice. It does so by taking a harder look at the data: how it is collected, analysed statistically, and represented in HR diagrams and stellar structure models alike. The focus is ultimately on the sorts of strong observational constraints revealed in the last two decades within the new and expanding field of asteroseismology. It is argued that the typical inferential practices in asteroseismology, while richly loaded with modelling assumptions of their own, do not raise any circularity worries that may compromise the quality or value of the data.

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