The case of G226-29 - Evidence for a pulsating DA white dwarf with a thick hydrogen layer?

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Hydrogen, Stellar Oscillations, White Dwarf Stars, Light Curve, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Interiors, Stellar Rotation

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New period data from a recent adiabatic pulsation survey of DA white dwarfs are combined with new spectroscopic determinations of the atmospheric parameters of the ZZ Ceti star G226-29 in order to investigate the short periods observed in that star. The triplet structure of the 109.3 peak in the Fourier spectrum of the light curve suggests that the observed pulsation correspond to an l = 1 mode split but slow rotation; thus, G226-29 must have a relatively thick hydrogen layer, which is estimated here to have a mass of log q(H) = -4/4 +/- 0.2. For an l = 2 mode, log q(H) is about -6.6 +/- 0.2, while no useful constraint on the hydrogen layer mass can be obtained from period data for an l = 3 mode. An observational test for determining the l value of the 109.3 mode is suggested.

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