{"id":211,"date":"2020-11-28T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/?p=211"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:27:39","slug":"seeing-interiors-of-massive-a-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/2020\/11\/28\/seeing-interiors-of-massive-a-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the interiors of massive A stars with TESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborators led by Tim Bedding at the University of Sydney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2226-8\">published in Nature<\/a> in May 2020 exciting new results from NASA&#8217;s <i>TESS<\/i> mission that are some of the first convincing identifications of the oscillations of a class of massive A stars that pulsate, named after the prototype star delta Scuti. The 2-minute cadence of TESS has finally allowed astronomers to identify the pulsations in delta Scuti stars, especially those that are young. Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/nasa-s-tess-enables-breakthrough-study-of-perplexing-stellar-pulsations\">a NASA press release<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01169-z\">Nature News &#038; Views<\/a> for more general audiences, a thread contextualizing the discovery is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danxhuber\/status\/1260630021250494470\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/danxhuber\/status\/1260630021250494470<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborators led by Tim Bedding at the University of Sydney published in Nature in May 2020 exciting new results from NASA&#8217;s TESS mission that are some of the first convincing identifications of the oscillations of a class of massive A stars that pulsate, named after the prototype star delta Scuti. The 2-minute cadence of TESS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}