The Delta Scuti star FG Vir. II. A search for high pulsation frequencies

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Sep 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995dssn....9....3b&link_type=abstract

Delta Scuti Star Newsletter, Issue 9, p. 3-4.

Computer Science

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Although the Delta Scuti and roAp variables occupy similar positions on and near the main sequence, delta Scuti variables pulsate with lower radial and nonradial overtones and lower frequencies. To test whether high frequencies (as found in the roAp stars) are also present in Delta Scuti stars, a multisite campaign with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) was carried out for the star FG Vir. The 96.7 hours of WET photometry were supplemented by measurements made with the Delta Scuti Network (DSN), because the DSN technique includes regular measurements of comparison stars and is better suited to monitoring the low frequencies (<= 500 microHz). This made possible the correction for low-frequency variability (10 pulsation frequencies from 106 to 395 microHz and amplitudes from 0.001 to 0.02) in order to prevent spectral leakage into the high-frequency domain. It is shown that such a correction is essential. In the 1 - 10 mHz region of interest (corresponding to periods between 17 and 1.7 minutes) no significant stellar variability could be detected. The highest peaks in the amplitude spectra ranged from 0.00023 (near 1 mHz) to 0.00012 near 10 mHz, where the amplitudes are expressed in units of fractional intensity. Statistical tests show that these peaks are caused by noise. These results indicate that for FG Vir the multimode pulsations in the low-frequency region (with individual amplitudes up to 0.02) are not accompanied by photometrically detectable high overtone pulsation at high frequencies. This result is consistent with the theory that high-order p-mode pulsation in the millimag range requires a large magnetic field, as detected in the roAp stars.

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