Stellar structure and evolution

Chris Clemens

Chris Clemens primarily studies the self-excited resonant oscillations of stars or "starquakes". Through high precision monitoring of a star's brightness and surface velocities, he studies the interior properties using methods analogous to terrestrial seismology. His work in this area has focused on the compact stellar remnants known as white dwarf stars. He also studies low mass binary stars, both interacting and non-interacting, to measure basic stellar properties with high precision.