ApLAB Workshop
11-12 July 2024, Porto, Portugal

The modelling of stars and their evolution across the HR diagram still faces outstanding challenges, related to unresolved questions pertaining to the transport of chemical elements inside stars. The exquisite seismic data that are being acquired by the TESS survey, on a large number of pulsating, chemically peculiar  stars, potentiates a major breakthrough in the understanding of these transport mechanisms that impact the modelling of all stars and the inference of accurate stellar fundamental properties. This workshop, organised around the project  ApLAB - Using Ap stars as LABoratories for probing chemical transport mechanisms, with ultra-precise space-based photometry - will focus on the exploitation of the TESS data on chemically peculiar stars, aiming at setting quantitative constraints on the efficiency of the chemical mixing inside stars and  furthering our understanding of the driving of these stars' pulsations.


Organizing Committee (LOC)
Margarida Cunha (IA/U.Porto, Chair)
Inês Rolo (IA/U.Porto)
Ângela Santos (IA/U.Porto)