Current Issues in Asteroseismology

TL;DR

This paper reviews current challenges and future prospects in asteroseismology, emphasizing how recent and upcoming data can address longstanding issues in stellar interior modeling.

Contribution

It highlights key open questions, upcoming seismic data, and new techniques to improve the understanding of stellar interiors through asteroseismology.

Findings

Addressing longstanding stellar interior modeling issues

Potential of new seismic data to resolve open questions

Development of techniques linking data and models

Abstract

In this contribution we briefly review some of the current issues and promises for the future by asteroseismology. We are entering a new phase in this field driven by the wealth of data that has been collected and data that will soon be available for asteroseismology across the HR Diagram. Major difficulties in the descriptions of stellar interiors that arose in the second half of the 20th century may now be in part addressed and solved (this is the expectation!) by asteroseismology with unprecedented precision. In this contribution we list some of the key open questions in stellar physics, the seismic data we expect to collect in the near future, and some techniques that will provide the tools to connect data and models.