Radial Pulsations of δ Scuti Stars: Theory in Comparison with Observations

IRAS Observations of Scuti Stars

The effect of diffusion on pulsations of stars on the upper main sequence δ Scuti and metallic A stars

Recent dramatic improvements in the modeling of abundance evolution due to diffusion in A stars have been achieved with the help of monochromatic opacity tables from the OPAL group. An important result in the context of stellar pulsations is the substantial helium abundance shown to be left over in the driving region of δ Scuti-type pulsations in chemically peculiar Am stars. An accurate opacit...

Photometry and asteroseismology of δ Scuti stars in Praesepe

We discuss observations and seismic analyses for three multi-periodic δ Scuti stars in the Praesepe cluster: BU, BN and BV Cnc. For two stars (BU and BN Cnc) we re-analyse published photoelectric photometry and show that using statistical weights results in a dramatic reduction in the noise level. We detect seven frequencies in BU Cnc and eight in BN Cnc, with three of the latter being previous...

Period change and δ Scuti pulsations of eclipsing binary star RZ Cassiopiae

RZ Cas is an Algol-type partial eclipsing binary, the secondary component of which has filled its Roche lobe. Its visual magnitude is 6.18 and its period is 1.195 days. The most important characteristics of RZ Cas are period change (due to mass transfer) and anomalies in the primary minimum of its light curve (due to δ Scuti pulsations). In this paper, light curves of RZ Cas are obtained using ...

Mode stability in δ Scuti stars: linear analysis versus observations in open clusters

A comparison between linear stability analysis and observations of pulsation modes in five δ Scuti stars, belonging to the same cluster, is presented. The study is based on the work by Michel et al. (1999), in which such a comparison was performed for a representative set of model solutions obtained independently for each individual star considered. In this paper we revisit the work by Michel e...