Amplitude modulation in δ Sct stars: statistics from an ensemble of Kepler targets

Bowman, Dominic, Kurtz, Donald Wayne orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1015-3268, Breger, Michel, Murphy, Simon J., Holdsworth, Daniel Luke orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2002-896X, Cunha, M.S. and Ferreira, J.M.T.S. (2017) Amplitude modulation in δ Sct stars: statistics from an ensemble of Kepler targets. EPJ Web of Conferences, 160 .

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716003008

Abstract

The results of a search for amplitude modulation of pulsation modes in 983 δ Sct stars, which have effective temperatures between 6400 ≤ Teff ≤ 10 000 K in the Kepler Input Catalogue and were continuously observed by the Kepler Space Telescope for 4 yr, are presented. A total of 603 δ Sct stars (61.3 per cent) are found to exhibit at least one pulsation mode that varies significantly in amplitude over 4 yr. Furthermore, it is found that amplitude modulation is not restricted to a specific region within the classical instability strip in the HR diagram, therefore its cause is not necessarily dependent on stellar parameters such as Teff or log g. On the other hand, many δ Sct stars show constant pulsation amplitudes demonstrating that the cause of pulsational non-linearity in these stars is not well understood.


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