Adiabatic solar-like oscillations in red giant stars

TL;DR

This paper reviews the theoretical and observational progress in understanding solar-like oscillations in red giant stars, emphasizing their potential to reveal internal stellar structures, based on data from CoRoT and Kepler.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive survey of current results on red giant oscillations, highlighting recent advances and the potential of asteroseismology for stellar structure analysis.

Findings

Detection of non-radial oscillation modes in red giants.

Correlation between oscillation properties and stellar internal structure.

Enhanced understanding from CoRoT and Kepler data.

Abstract

Since the detection of non-radial solar-like oscillation modes in red giants with the CoRoT satellite, the interest in the asteroseismic properties of red giants and the link with their global properties and internal structure is substantially increasing. Moreover, more and more precise data are being collected with the space-based telescopes CoRoT and Kepler. In this paper we present a survey of the most relevant theoretical and observational results obtained up to now concerning the potential of solar-like oscillations in red giants.