The rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 99563 and its distorted dipole pulsation mode

Details The rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 99563 and its distorted dipole pulsation mode The rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 99563 and its distorted dipole pulsation mode

2005-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511360v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:257-266,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09849.x

We undertook a time-series photometric multi-site campaign for the rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 99563 and also acquired mean light observations over two seasons. The pulsations of the star, that show flatter light maxima than minima, can be described with a frequency quintuplet centred on 1557.653 microHertz and some first harmonics of these. The amplitude of the pulsation is modulated with the rotation period of the star that we determine with 2.91179 +/- 0.00007 d from the analysis of the stellar pulsation spectrum and of the mean light data. We break the distorted oscillation mode up into its pure spherical harmonic components and find it is dominated by the l=1 pulsation, and also has a notable l=3 contribution, with weak l=0 and 2 components. The geometrical configuration of the star allows one to see both pulsation poles for about the same amount of time; HD 99563 is only the fourth roAp star for which both pulsation poles are seen and only the third where the distortion of the pulsation modes was modelled. We point out that HD 99563 is very similar to the well-studied roAp star HR 3831. Finally, we note that the visual companion of HD 99563 is located in the Delta Scuti instability strip and may thus show pulsation. We show that if the companion was physical, the roAp star would be a 2.03 solar mass object, seen at a rotational inclination of 44 degrees, which then predicts a magnetic obliquity of 86.4 degrees.

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