Non-radial pulsations in Be stars. Preparation of the COROT space mission.

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006phdt.........8g&link_type=abstract

Universidad de Valencia

Physics

Be Stars, Corot, Variability, Smc, Pulsations

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The space mission COROT scheduled to be launched in December 2006, will provide ultra high precision, relative stellar photometry for very long continuous observing runs. Up to ten stars will be observed in the seismology fields with a photometric accuracy of 1 ppm, and several thousands in the exoplanet fields with an accuracy of a few 10-4 and colour information.
The observations of Be stars with COROT will provide photometric time series with unprecedented quality. Their analysis will allow us to qualitatively improve our knowledge and understanding of the pulsational characteristics of Be stars. In consequence, we have started a research project aimed at observing Be stars both in the seismology and exoplanet fields of COROT.
In this thesis we present the first step of this project, which is the preparation and study of the sample of Be stars that will be observed by COROT. We have performed photometric analysis of all Be stars located in the seismology fields. Special emphasis has been given to two Be stars (NW Ser and V1446 Aql) in which we have detected multiperiodic variability and which we have modelled in terms of stellar pulsations. We have also performed an in-depth spectroscopic study of NW Ser and modelled the non-radial pulsations taking into account the rotational effects. A technique to search for faint Be stars based on CCD photometry has also been developed. We present here a list of faint Be stars located in the exoplanet fields of COROT detected with this technique and which we propose as targets for COROT. In addition, we have proven that our period-analysis techniques are suitable to detect multiperiodicity in large temporal baseline data. In particular, we have detected non-radial pulsations in some Be stars in the low-metallicity galaxy SMC.

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