SDSS J160043.6+074802.9: a very rapid sdO pulsator

Details SDSS J160043.6+074802.9: a very rapid sdO pulsator SDSS J160043.6+074802.9: a very rapid sdO pulsator

2006-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607171v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:1497-1502,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 6 figures (figure 4 at reduced resolution, original available on request). Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10788.x

We report the serendipitous discovery of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey star, SDSS J160043.6+074802.9 to be a very rapid pulsator. The variation is dominated by a frequency near 8380 microHz (period = 119.33 s) with a large amplitude (0.04 mag) and its first harmonic at 16760 microHz (59.66 s; 0.005 mag). In between these frequencies, we find at least another 8 variations with periods between 62 and 118 seconds and amplitudes between about 0.007 and 0.003 mag; weaker oscillations might also be present. Preliminary spectrograms from the performance verification phase of the Southern African Large Telescope indicate that SDSS J160043.6+074802.9 is a spectroscopic binary consisting of an sdO star and a late-type main-sequence companion. This makes it the first unambiguous detection of such an sdO star to pulsate, and certainly the first found to exhibit multi-frequency variations.

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