Asteroseismology of EC14026 Stars

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May 2001

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Abstracts from SF2A-2001: Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise, meeting held in Lyon, France, May 28-June 1st, 2001, Eds.: F. Co

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EC14026 stars form a class of pulsating stars which recent discovery originates back to 1997 (Kilkenny et al. 1997, MNRAS, 285,640). These are hot, relatively compact objets belonging to the class of subdwarf B (or sdB) stars and showing rapid multiperiodic (P 80-600 seconds), low amplitude (a few millimags) luminosity variations. These stars are identified to Extended Horizontal Branch (EHB) models, and thus are evolved, low mass (M 0.5 Modot) core helium burning objects (Dorman et al. 1993, ApJ, 415, 596). The theory of EC14026 stars, which origin is anterior to their "observational discovery" (their existence was predicted on these theoretical basis; Charpinet et al. 1996, ApJ, 471, L103), is nowadays in a relatively mature state. The mode driving mechanism identified is a kappa-mechanism caused by the formation, due to microscopic chemical diffusion processes, of a strongly overabundant reservoir of iron in the envelope of these stars. This theory has been remarkably consistent with the rapidly growing amounts of observational data so far, thus opening the way to a potentially very fruitful application of the tools of asteroseismology to probe the structure of these objects. In this context, I will present a method to constrain, with asteroseismology, the stellar parameters of EC14026 stars. This method is based on the construction of large grids of pulsating subdwarf B star models, each model being analysed with a linear nonadiabatic pulsation code, aimed at deriving the most appropriate set of model parameters that can best reproduce the observed periods of a given pulsating sdB star. With this method, fundamental quantities such as the effective temperature, the surface gravity, the total mass, and the mass of the H-rich envelope can be inferred.

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