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Amplitudes and Frequencies of δ Scuti Stars: Systematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Michel Breger
Michel Breger*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin and McDonald Observatory

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Delta Scuti stars are short-period pulsating A/F stars situated on or above the main sequence. They often pulsate with two more excited modes. The knowledge of the period lengths and period ratios is very important to deduce the nature of the pulsation modes, e.g. is the pulsation radial or nonradial? Furthermore, these values provide valuable information on the interior structure of these stars.

The determination of the period ratios from the light curves is difficult, since only a few cycles can be covered during a night. The small amplitudes of about 0.01 mag in some variables also makes the multiperiod analysis difficult. While every star should be considered on its own merit, a rough estimate of about 5 nights per deduced period appears to be a minimum requirement. Even then different analyses can give different results. A recent example is the star 38 Cnc (=BT Cnc). An excellent set of observations by Guerrero, Mantegazza and Scardia (1979) gave three periods with nonradial period ratios and a good fit. Our subsequent analysis of the same data gave three radial periods with an even better fit!

Type
Joint Discussion
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 5: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1979 , 1980 , pp. 463 - 466
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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