Preparing the COROT space mission: incidence and characterisation of pulsation in the Lower Instability Strip

Details Preparing the COROT space mission: incidence and characterisation of pulsation in the Lower Instability Strip Preparing the COROT space mission: incidence and characterisation of pulsation in the Lower Instability Strip

2003-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304422v1

Astron.Astrophys. 406 (2003) 203-212

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 9 figures Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Main Journal

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20030711

By pursuing the goal to find new variables in the COROT field-of-view we characterised a sample of stars located in the lower part of the instability strip. Our sample is composed of stars belonging to the disk population in the solar neighbourhood. We found that 23% of the stars display multiperiodic light variability up to few mmag of amplitude. uvbyBeta photometry fixed most of the variables in the middle of the instability strip and high-resolution spectroscopy established that they have vsin i>100 km/s. The comparison with delta Sct stars in the whole Galaxy shows slightly different features, i.e., most delta Sct stars have a 0.05-mag redder (b-y)_0 index and lower vsin i values. Additional investigation in the open cluster NGC 6633 confirms the same incidence of variability, i.e., around 20%. The wide variety of pulsational behaviours of delta Sct stars (including unusual objects such as a variable beyond the blue edge or a rapidly rotating high-amplitude pulsator) makes them very powerful asteroseismic tools to be used by COROT. Being quite common among bright stars, delta Sct stars are suitable targets for optical observations from space.

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