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Confining the Edges of the GW Vir Instability Strip

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Klaus Werner ,
Stefan Dreizler ,
Ulrich Heber  and
Thomas Rauch
Klaus Werner
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universität, 24098 Kiel, Germany
Stefan Dreizler
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universität, 24098 Kiel, Germany
Ulrich Heber
Affiliation:
Dr. Remeis Sternwarte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 96049 Bamberg, Germany
Thomas Rauch
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universität, 24098 Kiel, Germany

Abstract

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We report on our NLTE model atmosphere analyses of PG 1159 stars. The results enable us to confine the location of the GWVir instability region in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The analysis of a spectrum of the non-pulsator PG 1520+525 taken with the EUVE satellite in comparison with HST data of the pulsating protoype PG 1159-035 (=GW Vir) locates the blue edge of the instability strip near Teff=140 000 K for stars in the respective luminosity range.

Type
IV. White Dwarf Structure/Evolution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 152: Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet , 1996 , pp. 229 - 234
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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