Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-02-01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Proceedings of the "20th Stellar Pulsation Conference Series: Impact of new instrumentation & new insights in stellar pulsatio
Scientific paper
The period doubling phenomenon was recently discovered in RR Lyrae stars with the Kepler space telescope and has been theoretically explained by hydrodynamic calculations. However, peculiar solutions of the Florida-Budapest turbulent convective hydrodynamic code suggest that bifurcation cascade may evolve to chaos in these dynamical systems. We show that chaotic behaviour may be recovered from the radius variations of the model using the global flow reconstruction method. The fractal (Lyapunov) dimension of the underlying dynamical attractor is calculated to be ~2.2. Compared to the radius, the luminosity variations proved to be less suitable for such investigations due to their complexity. That suggest that even the continuous Kepler data would require transformation before conducting a similar analysis.
Kolláth Zoltan
Molnar Lajos
Plachy Emese
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