Tracing early stellar evolution with asteroseismology: pre-main sequence   stars in NGC 2264
  Asteroseismology has been proven to be a successful tool to unravel details of the internal structure for different types of stars in various stages of their main sequence and post-main sequence evolution. Recently, we found a relation between the detected pulsation properties in a sample of 34 pre-main sequence (pre-MS) delta Scuti stars and the relative phase in their pre-MS evolution. With this we are able to demonstrate that asteroseismology is similarly powerful if applied to stars in the earliest stages of evolution before the onset of hydrogen core burning. 
Konstanze Zwintz, Luca Fossati, Tatiana Ryabchikova, David Guenther,   Conny Aerts
astro-ph.SR