On mode trapping in pulsating DA white dwarf stars
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The present work is designed to explore the effects of the time-dependent element diffusion on the mode trapping properties of DA white dwarf models with various thickness of the hydrogen envelope. Our predictions are compared with the standard assumption of diffusive equilibrium in the trace element approximation. We find that element diffusion markedly weakens the presence of mode trapping originated in the outer layers of the models, even for the case of thin hydrogen envelopes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205053,
title = {On mode trapping in pulsating DA white dwarf stars},
author = {O. G. Benvenuto and A. H. Corsico and L. G. Althaus and A. M. Serenelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205053},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures, to be published in MNRAS