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Asteroseismology of Gamma Doradus, Beta Cephei, Delta Scuti and other ‘heat-engine’stars. J ørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Institut for Fysik og Astronomi, Aarhus Universitet Dansk AsteroSeismologisk Center. Mode excitation or damping. Growth rate: amplitude / exp( h t), with.
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Asteroseismology of Gamma Doradus, Beta Cephei, Delta Scuti and other ‘heat-engine’stars Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Institut for Fysik og Astronomi, Aarhus Universitet Dansk AsteroSeismologisk Center
Mode excitation or damping Growth rate: amplitude / exp(h t), with In nonadiabatic region, d L ' constant
Simplified excitation (J. P. Cox 1964) Too hot
Simplified excitation Too cold
Simplified excitation Just right!!
Note:Decreasing Teff! increasing mb! increasing P for a given opacity bump Location of instability region
Opacity bumps Pamyatnykh (1999; Acta Astron. 49, 119)
Petersen diagram (J.O. Petersen 1973; Astron. Astrophys 27, 89) Double-mode Cepheids P0! tdyn / (R3/M)1/2 P0 , P1! R, M???
Old opacity New (OPAL) opacity Track along instability strip P0! tdyn / (R3/M)1/2
Excitation calculation Pamyatnykh (1999; Acta Astron. 49, 119)
Work integrals b Cephei SPB d Scuti
l = 0 l = 1 l = 1 Asteroseismologi of b Ceph stars n Eridani De Ridder et al. (2004; MNRAS 351, 324)
Avoided crossings Models of n Eridani Pamyatnykh et al. (2004; 350, 1022)
Excitation d Scuti b Cephei Pamyatnykh (2000; ASP. Conf. Ser. 210, 215)
Excited modes d Scuti b Cephei
Instability regions Pamyatnykh (2000; ASP. Conf. Ser. 210, 215)
Breger (1995; ASP Conf. Ser. 76, 596) Analysis techniques
FG Virginis Breger et al. (2005; Astron. Astrophys. 435, 955)
FG Virginis frequencies Breger et al. (2005)
FG Virginis frequencies Breger et al. (2005)
FG Virginis amplitude distribution Breger et al. (2005)
FG Virginis frequency interpretation No rotation With rotation, nnlm = nnl0 + m W/2 p Templeton et al. (2001; ApJ 563, 999)
Altair: the brightest d Scuti star Observations with the WIRE satellite Buzasi et al. (2005; ApJ 619, 1072)
Very slow pulsations Poretti et al. (2002; Astron. Astrophys. 384, 513)
Very extended observations Aerts et al. (2004; Astron. Astrophys. 415, 1079)
Instability region Warner et al. (2003; ApJ 593, 1049)
Convective blocking Guzik et al. (2002; ASP Conf. Ser. 259, 502)