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Theoretical Study of Cepheid Light Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. G. Davis
C. G. Davis*
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Starting with the initial understanding that pulsation in variable stars is caused by the heat engine of Hydrogen and Helium ionization in their atmospheres (A.S. Eddington in Cox 1980) it was soon realized that non-linear effects were responsible for the detailed features on their light and velocity curves. With the advent of the computer we were able to solve the coupled set of hydrodynamics and radiation diffusion equations to model these non-linear features (Christy 1968, Cox et. al. 1966). Calculations including the effects of multi-frequency radiative transfer (Davis 1975) showed that grey diffusion was adequate for modeling Cepheids but not for the RR Lyrae or W Virginis type variables.

Type
Part II. Evolution and Pulsation Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 82: Cepheids: Theory and Observations , 1985 , pp. 153 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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