Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-03-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 11 ps figures To be published in the Proceedings of "Variable Stars as Important Astrophysical Tools" (Invited talk)
Scientific paper
The importance of Cepheids is well known in many fields of astronomy. Section 2 introduces the Fourier decomposition, a tool to describe quantitatively the light curves of pulsating stars. Sect. 3 shows how an observational result was progressively built on the basis of old and new data; the latter were collected on selected targets just to clarify some controversial points. Since different pulsation modes were suspected among Cepheids, an independent confirmation was searched for. To do that we applied the least-squares technique to Double Mode Cepheids. By obtaining a very satisfactory description of their pulsational content (Sect.4), we could confirm that between Cepheids with P<8d they are both fundamental and first overtone pulsators (Sect.5). The detection of small amplitude cross-coupling terms and higher harmonics in the light curves of Double Mode Cepheids allowed us to quantify the properties of the high-order terms and hence to discover other peculiarities (Sect.6), very useful to complete the scenario of the resonance effects and to test some theoretical models (Sect.7). Therefore, we can study the Cepheids from the point of view of asteroseismology since to find resonance effects is as to sound their interiors.
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