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Bedding TR Mosser B Huber D Montalbán J Beck P Christensen-Dalsgaard J Elsworth YP García RA Miglio A Stello D White TR De Ridder J Hekker S Aerts C Barban C Belkacem K Broomhall AM Brown TM Buzasi DL Carrier F Chaplin WJ Di Mauro MP Dupret MA Frandsen S Gilliland RL Goupil MJ Jenkins JM Kallinger T Kawaler S Kjeldsen H Mathur S Noels A Aguirre VS Ventura P 《Nature》2011,471(7340):608-611
Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Once a red giant is sufficiently evolved, the helium in the core also undergoes fusion. Outstanding issues in our understanding of red giants include uncertainties in the amount of mass lost at the surface before helium ignition and the amount of internal mixing from rotation and other processes. Progress is hampered by our inability to distinguish between red giants burning helium in the core and those still only burning hydrogen in a shell. Asteroseismology offers a way forward, being a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars using their natural oscillation frequencies. Here we report observations of gravity-mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made. We use high-precision photometry obtained by the Kepler spacecraft over more than a year to measure oscillations in several hundred red giants. We find many stars whose dipole modes show sequences with approximately regular period spacings. These stars fall into two clear groups, allowing us to distinguish unambiguously between hydrogen-shell-burning stars (period spacing mostly ~ 50 seconds) and those that are also burning helium (period spacing ~ 100 to 300 seconds). 相似文献
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Lobov IB Rao S Carroll TJ Vallance JE Ito M Ondr JK Kurup S Glass DA Patel MS Shu W Morrisey EE McMahon AP Karsenty G Lang RA 《Nature》2005,437(7057):417-421
Macrophages have a critical role in inflammatory and immune responses through their ability to recognize and engulf apoptotic cells. Here we show that macrophages initiate a cell-death programme in target cells by activating the canonical WNT pathway. We show in mice that macrophage WNT7b is a short-range paracrine signal required for WNT-pathway responses and programmed cell death in the vascular endothelial cells of the temporary hyaloid vessels of the developing eye. These findings indicate that macrophages can use WNT ligands to influence cell-fate decisions--including cell death--in adjacent cells, and raise the possibility that they do so in many different cellular contexts. 相似文献
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