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Star Sounds

This page has links to sound files that are "sonification of light curves" of Kepler stars. The light curves contain certain frequencies of brightness variation that are akin to sound waves, but the frequencies are not audible to the human ear. In the sonification process, those inaudible frequencies are analyzed by a mathematical technique called fourier analysis and then scaled to frequencies that the human ear can hear.

Stellar Sonifications by Jon Jenkins
light curve KIC 10273384 thumbnail
Sonification
V344 Lyr Cataclysmic Variable
Superhumps Sonification

V344 Lyr Cataclysmic Variable Superhumps Sonification
Sonification
Orchestra of Solar Type Stars
Link to Orchestra of Solar Type Stars
Red Giant Concert
Red giant concert