SPB stars in the open SMC cluster NGC 371

2008/02/13 by C. Karoff, T. Arentoft, L. Glowienka +6 · 11 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Blue straggler #Galaxy #K-type main-sequence star #Metallicity #Open cluster #Physics #Small Magellanic Cloud #Star cluster #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #T Tauri star #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13105.x

published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 386(2), 1085-1091 (Oxford University Press) · 8 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Abstract

β Cep and slowly pulsating B stars (SPB) pulsate due to the κ-mechanism activated by the metal opacity bump (Cox et al. 1992). This give rise to p-mode pulsation in β Cep stars and g-mode pulsation in SPB stars. However the

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