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Evolutionary Effects on Radial Pulsations of β–Cephei Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. O. Jensen*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Monash University, Clayton

Extract

During recent years it has become rather clear that the β-Cephei variables are in a hydrogen-buring stage of their evolution. The 8 (β-Cephei variables which have been found in the Scorpio-Centaurus association highlights this. The 6 of these variables for which Glaspey (1971) provides (β, (u – b)0) photometry all fall at the tip of the sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This indicates that (β-Cephei stars are in the final stages of core hydrogen burning. This is in good agreement with the position of the β-Cephei strip of Watson (1972) in the H-R diagram.

Type
Stellar
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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