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The solitary g-mode frequencies in early B-type stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2017-01-05 v1

Abstract

We present possible explanations of pulsations in early B-type main sequence stars which arise purely from the excitation of gravity modes. There are three stars with this type of oscillations detected from the BRITE light curves: κ\kappa Cen, a Car, κ\kappa Vel. We show that by changing metallicity or the opacity profile it is possible in some models to dump pressure modes keeping gravity modes unstable. Other possible scenario involves pulsations of a lower mass companion.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00961,
  title  = {The solitary g-mode frequencies in early B-type stars},
  author = {J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz and P. Walczak and A. A. Pamyatnykh and M. Jerzykiewicz and A. Pigulski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00961},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

talk at the second BRITE-Constellation Science Conference, Innsbruck, 2016, to be published in the Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, eds: G. Stachowski, E. Poretti, and J. Matthews