Combining seismology and spectropolarimetry of hot stars

TL;DR

This paper discusses the integration of seismology and spectropolarimetry techniques to enhance understanding of hot stars, highlighting recent progress and future opportunities with new space missions.

Contribution

It introduces the combined approach of seismology and spectropolarimetry for hot star analysis and emphasizes upcoming opportunities with missions like Kepler2 and BRITE.

Findings

Progress in understanding hot star physics through combined techniques

Limited current data on magnetic pulsating hot stars

Emerging opportunities with new space missions

Abstract

Asteroseismology and spectropolarimetry have allowed us to progress significantly in our understanding of the physics of hot stars over the last decade. It is now possible to combine these two techniques to learn even more information about hot stars and constrain their models. While only a few magnetic pulsating hot stars are known as of today and have been studied with both seismology and spectropolarimetry, new opportunities - in particular Kepler2 and BRITE - are emerging and will allow us to rapidly obtain new combined results.