Stellar Structure Models Revisited: Evidence and Data in Asteroseismology

Abstract This paper advances further an ongoing project to understand the history of stellar structure modelling and its inferential practice. It does so by taking a harder look at data: how it is collected, analysed statistically, represented in HR diagrams models alike. The focus ultimately on sorts strong observational constraints revealed last two decades within new expanding field asteroseismology. argued that typical practices asteroseismology, while richly loaded with assumptions their own, do not raise any circularity worries may compromise quality or value data.