Pulsations in the atmosphere of the roAp star HD 24712 II. Theoretical models

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2009-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/0912.4401v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

11 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We discuss pulsations of the rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star HD 24712 (HR 1217) based on nonadiabatic analyses taking into account the effect of dipole magnetic fields. We have found that all the pulsation modes appropriate for HD 24712 are damped; i.e., the kappa-mechanism excitation in the hydrogen ionization layers is not strong enough to excite high-order p-modes with periods consistent with observed ones, all of which are found to be above the acoustic cut-off frequencies of our models. The main (2.721 mHz) and the highest (2.806 mHz) frequencies are matched with modified $l=2$ and $l=3$ modes, respectively. The large frequency separation ($\approx 68 \mu$Hz) is reproduced by models which lay within the error box of HD 24712 on the HR diagram. The nearly equally spaced frequencies of HD 24712 indicate the small frequency separation to be as small as $\approx 0.5\mu$Hz. However, the small separation derived from theoretical $l=1$ and 2 modes are found to be larger than $\sim 3\mu$Hz. The problem of equal spacings could be resolved by assuming that the spacings correspond to pairs of $l=2$ and $l=0$ modes. The amplitude distribution on the stellar surface is strongly affected by the magnetic field resulting in the predominant concentration at the polar regions. Amplitudes and phases of radial-velocity variations for various spectral lines are converted to relations of amplitude/phase versus optical depth in the atmosphere. Oscillation phase delays gradually outward in the outermost layers indicating the presence of waves propagating outward. The phase changes steeply around $\log\tau\sim-3.5$, which supports a $T-\tau$ relation having a small temperature inversion there.

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