Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-03-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
10 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A.
Scientific paper
(abridged) Recent work on several beta Cephei stars has succeeded in constraining both their interior rotation profile and their convective core overshoot. In particular, a recent study focusing on theta$ Oph has shown that a convective core overshoot parameter of alpha = 0.44 is required to model the observed pulsation frequencies, significantly higher than for other stars of this type. We investigate the effects of rotation and overshoot in early type main sequence pulsators, and attempt to use the low order pulsation frequencies to constrain these parameters. This will be applied to a few test models and theta Oph. We use a 2D stellar evolution code and a 2D linear adiabatic pulsation code to calculate pulsation frequencies for 9.5 Msun models. We calculate low order p-modes for models with a range of rotation rates and convective core overshoot parameters. Using these models, we find that the convective core overshoot has a larger effect on the pulsation frequencies than the rotation, except in the most rapidly rotating models considered. When the differences in radii are accounted for by scaling the frequencies, the effects of rotation diminish, but are not entirely accounted for. We find that increasing the convective core overshoot decreases the large separation, while producing a slight increase in the small separations. We created a model frequency grid which spanned several rotation rates and convective core overshoot values. Using a modified chi^2 statistic, we are able to recover the rotation velocity and core overshoot for a few test models. Finally, we discuss the case of the beta Cephei star theta Oph. Using the observed frequencies and a fixed mass and metallicity, we find a lower overshoot than previously determined, with alpha = 0.28 +/- 0.05. Our determination of the rotation rate agrees well with both previous work and observations, around 30 km/s.
Goupil Marie Jo
Lovekin Catherine
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