# The connection between stellar granulation and oscillation as seen by the Kepler mission

@article{Kallinger2014TheCB,
title={The connection between stellar granulation and oscillation as seen by the Kepler mission},
author={Thomas Kallinger and Joris De Ridder and Saskia Hekker and Savita Mathur and Beno{\^i}t Mosser and Michael Gruberbauer and R. A. Garc{\'i}a and Christoffer Karoff and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Ballot},
journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
year={2014},
volume={570}
}
• Published 4 August 2014
• Physics
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
Context. The long and almost continuous observations by Kepler show clear evidence of a granulation background signal in a large sample of stars, which is interpreted as the surface manifestation of convection. It has been shown that its characteristic timescale and rms intensity fluctuation scale with the peak frequency (νmax) of the solar-like oscillations. Various attempts have been made to quantify the observed signal, to determine scaling relations for its characteristic parameters, and to…
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