| Issue |
A&A
Volume 385, Number 3, April III 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 932 - 939 | |
| Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020182 | |
| Published online | 15 April 2002 | |
Nonlinear beat Cepheid and RR Lyrae models
1
Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary
2
Physics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA e-mail: buchler@phys.ufl.edu
Corresponding author: Z. Kolláth, kollath@konkoly.hu
Received:
3
October
2001
Accepted:
28
January
2002
The numerical hydrodynamic modelling of beat Cepheid behavior has been a long-standing quest in which purely radiative models have failed consistently. We find that beat pulsations occur quite naturally when turbulent convection is accounted for in our hydrodynamics code. The developments of a relaxation code and of a Floquet stability analysis greatly facilitate the search for and the analysis of beat Cepheid models. The conditions for the occurrence of beat behavior can be understood easily and at a fundamental level with the help of amplitude equations.
Key words: stars: oscillations / stars: variables: Cepheids / stars: variables: RR Lyr / stars: evolution / hydrodynamics / convection
© ESO, 2002
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