Van Eylen, Vincent; Lund, Mikkel N.; Silva Aguirre, Victor; Arentoft, Torben; Kjeldsen, Hans; Albrecht, Simon; Chaplin, William J.; Isaacson, Howard; Pedersen, May G.; Jessen-Hansen, Jens; Tingley, Brandon; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; Aerts, Conny; Campante, Tiago L.; Bryson, Steve T.
What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets,
The Space Photometry Revolution – CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting
Abstract
We describe three useful applications of asteroseismology in the context of exoplanet science: (1) the detailed characterisation of exoplanet host stars; (2) the measurement of stellar inclinations; and (3) the determination of orbital eccentricity from transit duration making use of asteroseismic stellar densities. We do so using the example system Kepler-410 [1]. This is one of the brightest (V = 9.4) Kepler exoplanet host stars, containing a small (2.8 R⊕) transiting planet in a long orbit (17.8 days), and one or more additional non-transiting planets as indicated by transit timing variations. The validation of Kepler-410 (KOI-42) was complicated due to the presence of a companion star, and the planetary nature of the system was confirmed after analyzing a Spitzer transit observation as well as ground-based follow-up observations.
