Classical Cepheid Pulsation Models: IX. New Input Physics

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2003-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308459v2

Astrophys.J.599:522-536,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

35 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/379279

We constructed several sequences of classical Cepheid envelope models at solar chemical composition ($Y=0.28, Z=0.02$) to investigate the dependence of the pulsation properties predicted by linear and nonlinear hydrodynamical models on input physics. To study the dependence on the equation of state (EOS) we performed several numerical experiments by using the simplified analytical EOS originally developed by Stellingwerf and the recent analytical EOS developed by Irwin. Current findings suggest that the pulsation amplitudes as well as the topology of the instability strip marginally depend on the adopted EOS. We also investigated the dependence of observables predicted by theoretical models on the mass-luminosity (ML) relation and on the spatial resolution across the Hydrogen and the Helium partial ionization regions. We found that nonlinear models are marginally affected by these physical and numerical assumptions. In particular, the difference between new and old models in the location as well as in the temperature width of the instability strip is on average smaller than 200 K. However, the spatial resolution somehow affects the pulsation properties. The new fine models predict a period at the center of the Hertzsprung Progression ($P_{HP}=9.65$$-$9.84 days) that reasonably agree with empirical data based on light curves ($P_{HP}=10.0\pm 0.5$ days; \citealt{mbm92}) and on radial velocity curves ($P_{HP}=9.95\pm 0.05$ days; \citealt{mall00}), and improve previous predictions by Bono, Castellani, and Marconi (2000, hereinafter BCM00).

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