What have we learnt from pulsations of B-type stars?
Abstract
We review the main results obtained from our seismic studies of B-type main sequence pulsators, based on the ground-based, MOST, Kepler and BRITE observations. Important constraints on stellar opacities, convective overshooting and rotation are derived. In each studied case, a significant modification of the opacity profile at the depths corresponding to the temperature range is indispensable to explain all pulsational properties. In particular, a huge amount of opacity (at least 200\%) at the depth of the temperature (the "nickel" opacity) has to be added in early B-type stellar models to account for low frequencies which correspond to high-order g modes. The values of the overshooting parameter, , from our seismic studies is below 0.3. In the case of a few stars, the deeper interiors have to rotate faster to get the g-mode instability in the whole observed range.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.00075,
title = {What have we learnt from pulsations of B-type stars?},
author = {Jadwiga Daszynska-Daszkiewicz and Przemysław Walczak and Wojciech Szewczuk and Alosha Pamyatnykh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00075},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 12 figures