Non-radial Pulsations in the Open Cluster NGC 3766

Details Non-radial Pulsations in the Open Cluster NGC 3766 Non-radial Pulsations in the Open Cluster NGC 3766

2009-10-01

arxiv.org/abs/0910.0278v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 266: Star Clusters

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Non-radial pulsations (NRPs) are a proposed mechanism for the formation of decretion disks around Be stars and are important tools to study the internal structure of stars. NGC 3766 has an unusually large fraction of transient Be stars, so it is an excellent location to study the formation mechanism of Be star disks. High resolution spectroscopy can reveal line profile variations from NRPs, allowing measurements of both the degree, l, and azimuthal order, m. However, spectroscopic studies require large amounts of time with large telescopes to achieve the necessary high S/N and time domain coverage. On the other hand, multi-color photometry can be performed more easily with small telescopes to measure l only. Here, we present representative light curves of Be stars and non-emitting B stars in NGC 3766 from the CTIO 0.9m telescope in an effort to study NRPs in this cluster.

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