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CoRoT observations of O stars: diverse origins of variability
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Six O-type stars were observed continuously by the CoRoT satellite during a 34.3-day run. The unprecedented quality of the data allows us to detect even low-amplitude stellar pulsations in some of these stars (HD 46202 and the binaries HD 46149 and Plaskett's star). These cover both opacity-driven modes and solar-like stochastic oscillations, both of importance to the asteroseismological modelling of O stars. Additional effects can be seen in the CoRoT light curves, such as binarity and rotational modulation. Some of the hottest O-type stars (HD 46223, HD 46150 and HD 46966) are dominated by the presence of red-noise: we speculate that this is related to a sub-surface convection zone.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, conference paper. To be published in "Four decades of Research on Massive Stars", Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Eds. C. Robert, N. St-Louis and L. Drissen
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1109.1999
- Document Type :
- Working Paper