Poster abstract details

The detection of solar-like oscillations in populations of red giants with CoRoT allows us to access the properties of so far poorly-constrained distant stars in the galactic disk.
The asteroseismic identification of a large number of red-clump stars in the disk, when combined with additional photometric constraints, allows us to estimate for the first time the distance of hundreds of stars in the population, provided that metallicity/age effects on the absolute red-clump magnitude are taken into account.
In this work we present the distance distribution of red-clump stars identified in the first CoRoT long run, and describe the relevance of CoRoT observations in the wider context of studies on the galactic structure and evolution.