Asteroseismology of Eclipsing Binary Stars in the Kepler Era

TL;DR

This paper reviews how asteroseismology combined with eclipsing binary data enhances understanding of stellar properties, especially using space missions like Kepler, and tests the accuracy of asteroseismic scaling relations.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of asteroseismic detections in eclipsing binaries and evaluates the empirical validity of asteroseismic scaling relations for solar-like oscillations.

Findings

Asteroseismology in eclipsing binaries improves stellar parameter measurements.

Space missions like Kepler have significantly advanced the field.

Empirical tests support the accuracy of asteroseismic scaling relations.

Abstract

Eclipsing binary stars have long served as benchmark systems to measure fundamental stellar properties. In the past few decades, asteroseismology - the study of stellar pulsations - has emerged as a new powerful tool to study the structure and evolution of stars across the HR diagram. Pulsating stars in eclipsing binary systems are particularly valuable since fundamental properties (such as radii and masses) can determined using two independent techniques. Furthermore, independently measured properties from binary orbits can be used to improve asteroseismic modeling for pulsating stars in which mode identifications are not straightforward. This contribution provides a review of asteroseismic detections in eclipsing binary stars, with a focus on space-based missions such as CoRoT and Kepler, and empirical tests of asteroseismic scaling relations for stochastic ("solar-like") oscillations.