Evidence for Low-Dimensional Chaos in Semiregular Variable Stars

Details Evidence for Low-Dimensional Chaos in Semiregular Variable Stars Evidence for Low-Dimensional Chaos in Semiregular Variable Stars

2004-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406109v1

Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 532-547

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 14 figures, accepted in ApJ - paper with clearer figures is available at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~buchler/publicatio

Scientific paper

10.1086/422903

An analysis of the photometric observations of the light curves of the five large amplitude, irregularly pulsating stars R UMi, RS Cyg, V CVn, UX Dra and SX Her is presented. First, multi-periodicity is eliminated for these pulsations, i.e. they are not caused by the excitation of a small number of pulsation modes with constant amplitudes. Next, on the basis of energetics we also eliminate stochasticity as a cause, leaving low dimensional chaos as the only alternative. We then use a global flow reconstruction technique in an attempt to extract quantitative information from the light curves, and to uncover common physical features in this class of irregular variable stars that straddle the RV Tau to the Mira variables. Evidence is presented that the pulsational behavior of R UMi, RS Cyg, V CVn and UX Dra takes place in a 4-dimensional dynamical phase space, suggesting that two vibrational modes are involved in the pulsation. A linear stability analysis of the fixed points of the maps further indicates the existence of a two-mode resonance, similar to the one we had uncovered earlier in R Sct: The irregular pulsations are the result of a continual energy exchange between two strongly nonadiabatic modes, a lower frequency pulsation mode and an overtone that are in a close 2:1 resonance. The evidence is particularly convincing for R UMi, RS Cyg and V CVn, but much weaker for UX Dra. In contrast, the pulsations of SX Her appear to be more complex and may require a 6D space.

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