We present a preliminary analysis of time series photometry on the pulsating subdwarf B star PG1336-018 acquired as part of two Whole Earth Telescope runs. PG1336-018 is a multi-mode pulsator with at least 15 periods centered around 175 seconds. It is also an HW~Vir-type eclipsing binary with a period of 2.4 hours. Though over 20 pulsating subdwarf B stars have been discovered, only a few have resolved temporal spectra and still fewer have identified pulsation modes. We analyze features unique to the eclipsing binary system of PG1336-018 as a means of identifying pulsation modes.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0111256,
title = {Identifying modes in a pulsating sdB (EC14026) star},
author = {M. D. Reed and Whole Earth Telescope Xcov 17 team and Whole Earth Telescope Xcov 21 team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0111256},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in IAU 185 proceedings: "Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics."