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                            Metcalfe, T. S.; Creevey, O. L.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
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                                    STELLAR PULSATION: CHALLENGES FOR THEORY AND OBSERVATION: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1170, pp. 535-539 (2009).
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                                    Over the past two decades, helioseismology has revolutionized our
understanding of the interior structure and dynamics of the Sun.
Asteroseismology will soon place this knowledge into a broader context
by providing structural data for hundreds of Sun-like stars. Solar-like
oscillations have already been detected from the ground in several
stars, and NASA's Kepler mission is poised to unleash a flood of stellar
pulsation data. Deriving reliable asteroseismic information from these
observations demands a significant improvement in our analysis methods.
We report the initial results of our efforts to develop an objective
stellar model-fitting pipeline for asteroseismic data. The cornerstone
of our automated approach is an optimization method using a parallel
genetic algorithm. We describe the details of the pipeline and we
present the initial application to Sun-as-a-star data, yielding an
optimal model that accurately reproduces the known solar properties.