We report BRITE-Constellation photometry of the beta Cep pulsator xi 1 CMa. Analysis of these data reveals a single pulsation period of 0.2095781(3) d, along with its first and second harmonics. We find no evidence for any other frequencies, limiting the value of this star as a target for magneto-asteroseismology. We em- ploy the 17-year database of RV measurements of xi 1 CMa to evaluate evidence for the reported change in pulsation period, and interpret this period change in terms of stellar evolution. We measure a rate-of-change of the period equal to 0.009(1) s/yr, consistent with that reported in the literature.
@article{arxiv.1712.02624,
title = {Evolving pulsation of the slowly rotating magnetic beta Cep star xi 1 CMa},
author = {Sean B. Begy and Gregg A. Wade and Gerald Handler and Andrzej Pigulski and James Sikora and Matt Shultz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02624},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, proceedings of the 3rd BRITE-Constellation Science Conference, Lac Taureau, 2017