Pulsation and rotation in NGC 6811: the Kepler short-cadence stars

Autor: Cristina Rodríguez-López, Susana Martín-Ruiz, S. Ocando, M. J. Lopez-Gonzalez, E. Rodríguez, L A Balona
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, National Research Foundation (South Africa), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Popis: We have analysed a selected sample of 36 Kepler short-cadence stars in the field of NGC 6811. The results reveal that all the targets are variable: two red giant starswith solar-like oscillations, 21 main-sequence pulsators (16 delta Scuti and five. Doradus stars), and 13 rotating variables. Three new gamma Doradus (gamma Dor) variables (one is a hot gamma Dor star) are detected in this work together with five new rotating variables. An in-depth frequency analysis of the delta Scuti (delta Sct) and gamma Dor stars in the sample shows that the frequency spectra are very rich, in particular for the d Sct-type variables. They present very dense frequency distributions and wide diversity in frequency patterns, even for stars being members of the cluster and with very similar location in the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram. Rotational modulation is found for a high percentage of these main-sequence pulsating stars, which is an indication of stellar activity being common on the surfaces of these hot stars. In some cases, activity dominates the luminosity variations. Significant amplitude variability is also detected in at least some of the pulsation modes of highest amplitude in almost all the delta Sct stars. One of the delta Sct pulsators is a member of a binary system with the pulsating component tidally distorted. This system also shows strong stellar activity, including several flares that probably originate in the delta Sct component.© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
The authors thank an anonymous referee for careful reading and comments on our manuscript that helped us to improve it. This research was supported by the Direccion General de Investigacion (DGI) under projects AYA2016-79425-C03-03-P, ESP2017-87676C05-02-R, and ESP2017-87143-R and the Centre of Excellence 'Severo Ochoa' Instituto de Astrof ' isica de Andalucia (SEV-20170709). LAB wishes to thank the South African Astronomical Observatory and the National Research Foundation for financial support. The data included in this paper were collected by the Kepler mission. Funding for the Kepler mission is provided by the NASA Science Mission directorate. The authors thank the Kepler team for their generosity in releasing these data and for their outstanding efforts that havemade these results possible. All the data presented in this work were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NASA-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts. This work made also use of the SIMBAD data base, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
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