Time dependent diffusion in pulsating white dwarf stars: Asteroseismology of G117-B15A

Details Time dependent diffusion in pulsating white dwarf stars: Asteroseismology of G117-B15A Time dependent diffusion in pulsating white dwarf stars: Asteroseismology of G117-B15A

2002-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201226v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 332 (2002) 399

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures, to be published in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05312.x

We study the structural characteristic of the variable DA white dwarf G117B-15A by applying the methods of asteroseismology. For such a purpose, we construct white dwarf evolutionary models considering a detailed and up-to-date physical description as well as several processes responsible for the occurrence of element diffusion. We have considered several thickness for the outermost hydrogen layer, whereas for the inner helium-, carbon- and oxygen-rich layers we considered realistic profiles predicted by calculations of the white dwarf progenitor evolution. The evolution of each of the considered model sequences were followed down to very low effective temperature; in particular, from 12500K on we computed the dipolar, linear, adiabatic oscillations with low radial order. We find that asteroseismological results are not univocal regarding mode identification for the case of G117B-15A. However, our asteroseismological results are compatible with spectroscopical data only if the observed periods of 215.2, 271.0 and 304.4 s are due to dipolar modes with $k=2, 3, 4$ respectively. Our calculations indicate that the best fit to the observed period pattern of G117B-15A corresponds to a DA white dwarf structure with a stellar mass of 0.525 \msun, with a hydrogen mass fraction \lmh$\gtrsim$-3.83 at an effective temperature \teff$\approx$11800K.

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