Mixing processes in stars

TL;DR

This paper reviews the various mixing and transport processes in stars, emphasizing how asteroseismology enhances understanding of stellar interior dynamics and improves modeling accuracy.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of stellar mixing processes and highlights the role of asteroseismology in refining stellar models.

Findings

Asteroseismology offers detailed insights into stellar interior processes.

Understanding mixing processes improves predictions of stellar evolution.

Enhanced models aid in interpreting stellar observations more accurately.

Abstract

Stars play a key role in the evolution of the Universe, as sources of radiation, as dynamical engines, and as chemical factories. Outputs of stellar models are then central to various studies in astrophysics. Stellar physics links fundamental physical aspects to hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic processes, and the validity of stellar models depends directly on the modelling of these complex mechanisms. We describe here the different transport processes at work in stellar interiors and how the modelling of these processes can be improved thanks to the unique ability of asteroseismology, the study of stellar oscillations, to probe the internal structure and dynamics of stars.