Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-10-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Comm. in Asteroseismology, Proceedings of the Wroclaw HELAS Workshop, 2008
Scientific paper
Hybrid stars like Nu Eridani and 12 Lacertae show two different types of pulsations: (i) low-order acoustic and gravity modes of the Beta Cephei type with periods of about 3-6 hours, and (ii) high-order gravity modes of the SPB type with periods of about 1.5-3 days. Theoretical computations using both OPAL and OP opacity data well reproduce short period low-order pulsations of the Beta Cep type and show a tendency to instability of high-order gravity modes, especially for stellar models built with the OP opacities. However, instability at observed long periods has not been achieved. We test effects of artificial opacity modifications in the deep envelope on the instability of some hybrid star models. For Nu Eri models, an opacity increase both in the Z opacity bump region at temperature of about 200 000 K and in the region of the deeper opacity bump at temperature of about 2-2.5 million degrees (this bump is also mainly due to excited ions of the iron-group elements) may result in instability of the high-order gravity modes with the observed periods. The shortest observed period of 3 hours can also be excited in modified models. However, the required opacity increase seems to be quite large (up to 2 times in some stellar layers) which may be incompatible with atomic physics.
Pamyatnykh Alexey A.
Zdravkov Thomas
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