Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992ap%26ss.189..181m&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 189, no. 2, March 1992, p. 181-211.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Cepheid Variables, Light Curve, Stellar Models, Stellar Oscillations, Hydrogen, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass
Scientific paper
Evolution, linear pulsation, and nonlinear pulsation codes were combined to produce nonlinear models of Delta-Scuti stars in an instability region extending over values of log T between 3.8 and 3.95 and of log L/solar luminosity between 0.6 and 2.0. The linear analysis upheld the consensus that they are normal Population-I stars of about 2 solar mass, in stages of evolution corresponding to central hydrogen burning and shell hydrogen burning. The growth rates were very slow; driving was due to an opacity mechanism in the second helium ionization region; periods and period ratios of the lowest modes of the models were in the same range as those observed. When eigenfunctions from the linear analysis were used as initial velocity profiles, the dominant peak in the periodogram of the light curve corresponded to the mode initiated. For a small subset of models, limiting amplitudes were identified and found to be in close agreement with observed light amplitudes.
Carson Richard T.
Milligan H.
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