Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 163
This version created on 05 October 2006

SONG - a global network of small telescopes for asteroseismology and
planet searches


Torben Arentoft, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Frank Grundahl, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Hans Kjeldsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

SONG (Stellar Oscillations Network Group) is an initiative to design
and build a global network of small, automatic telescopes with very
sensitive spectrographs for high-precision radial velocity
measurements.  SONG will be used for long, uninterrupted time-series
observations of mainly solar-like stars for asteroseismology and
planet detection.  The SONG telescopes will also be equipped with an
imager for planet detection through microlensing.  We describe the
ideas behind SONG and present the first results of simulations
concerning one of the potential science cases for SONG;  an
asteroseismic survey of nearby, solar-like stars to derive stellar
ages from seismic signals.

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