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We stand at the threshold of an exciting era of Asteroseismology.
In a few months' time, the Canadian small-satellite
asteroseismology mission MOST will be laun ched. Danish and French
missions MONS and COROT should follow, with the ESA mission
Eddington following in 2007/8. Helioseismology has proved spec
tacularly successful in imaging the internal structure and dynamics
of the Sun and probing the physics of the solar interior.
Ground-based observations have detected solar-like oscillations on
alpha Centauri A and other Sun-like stars, and diagnostics similar
to those used in helioseismology are now being used to test and
constrain the physics and evolutionary state of these stars.
Multi-mode oscillations are being observed in an abundance of other
stars, including slowly pulsating B stars (SPB stars), delta Scuti
stars, Ap stars and the pulsating white dwarfs. New classes of
pulsators continue to be discovered across the Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram. For good reason it was decided to entitle our conference
'Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram' . Yet the challenges still
to be faced to make asteroseismology across the HR diagram a
reality are formidable. Observation, data analysis and theory all
pose hard problems to be overcome. In conceiving this meeting, the
aim of the organisers was to facilitate a cross-fertilization of
ideas and approaches between researchers working on different
pulsators and with different areas of expertise. We venture to
suggest that in this the conference was a great success."
We stand at the threshold of an exciting era of Asteroseismology.
In a few months' time, the Canadian small-satellite
asteroseismology mission MOST will be laun ched. Danish and French
missions MONS and COROT should follow, with the ESA mission
Eddington following in 2007/8. Helioseismology has proved spec
tacularly successful in imaging the internal structure and dynamics
of the Sun and probing the physics of the solar interior.
Ground-based observations have detected solar-like oscillations on
alpha Centauri A and other Sun-like stars, and diagnostics similar
to those used in helioseismology are now being used to test and
constrain the physics and evolutionary state of these stars.
Multi-mode oscillations are being observed in an abundance of other
stars, including slowly pulsating B stars (SPB stars), delta Scuti
stars, Ap stars and the pulsating white dwarfs. New classes of
pulsators continue to be discovered across the Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram. For good reason it was decided to entitle our conference
'Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram' . Yet the challenges still
to be faced to make asteroseismology across the HR diagram a
reality are formidable. Observation, data analysis and theory all
pose hard problems to be overcome. In conceiving this meeting, the
aim of the organisers was to facilitate a cross-fertilization of
ideas and approaches between researchers working on different
pulsators and with different areas of expertise. We venture to
suggest that in this the conference was a great success."
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