The radial-velocity variations of Polaris - A Cepheid leaving the instability strip?

1989 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 2249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Dinshaw ◽  
Jaymie M. Matthews ◽  
Gordon A. H. Walker ◽  
Grant M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Velocity Variations

scholarly journals The Long-term Variation in the RV Tauri Star U Mon

1995 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 409-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Pollard ◽  
P. L. Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Light Curve ◽  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Tauri Star ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Term Variation ◽  
Velocity Variations

The RV Tauri stars are semiregular pulsating variables located in the brightest part of the Cepheid II instability strip. They have a characteristic light curve of alternating deep and shallow minima. A subset of the RV Tauri stars (the RVb subclass) exhibit long-term (500 to 2600 day) light and radial velocity variations. Although it is well established that the short-term variations are due to pulsations, the long-term behaviour is not well understood.BVRI photometry and high-resolution spectra of U Mon (the brightest member of the RVb subclass) were obtained at the Mt John University Observatory (MJUO) between 1990 Aug and 1994 May. The light and colour curves obtained clearly show the long-term variation in U Mon (Fig. 1(a) and (b)). The reddest colours occur slightly later than the long-term minimum in the light curve. The short-term light and colour variations are ‘damped’ at the long-term minimum.

scholarly journals Mode Discrimination in Nonradially Oscillating Stars From Light, Colour and Velocity Observations

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 371-376
Author(s):  
L.A. Balona ◽  
R.S. Stobie
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Phase Difference ◽  
Spherical Harmonic ◽  
Amplitude Ratio ◽  
Harmonic Mode ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Nonradial Oscillation ◽  
Mode Discrimination ◽  
Velocity Variations

AbstractExpressions for the amplitudes and phases of the light, colour and radial velocity variations are derived for a star in nonradial oscillation. For stars in the cepheid instability strip the spherical harmonic mode of the oscillation can be obtained from the phase difference between the light and colour variations. For 3 Cep stars the mode can be estimated from the amplitude ratio of the light and colour variations.

scholarly journals Extremely Low Amplitude Cepheids

1993 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 385-385
Author(s):  
R. Paul Butler
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Velocity Curve ◽  
Reference Star ◽  
Absorption Cell ◽  
Instability Strip ◽  
Iodine Absorption ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Velocity Variations ◽  
Low Amplitude

AbstractSeveral photometric studies conducted in the 1970's indicate that at least half the stars in the Cepheid instability strip are stable at the level of 0.02 mag (Fernie & Hube 1971; Percy 1975; Fernie 1976; Percy, Baskerville, & Trevorrow 1979). A precision radial velocity survey of these “stable stars” is currently being conducted by the author. Radial velocity errors have been reduced to a few tens of meters per second with the use of an iodine absorption cell (Marcy & Butler 1992).Extremely low amplitude (200 m/s) periodic radial velocity variations have been found for HR 7796, an F8Ib supergiant (Butler 1992). Two and a half complete cycles have been monitored over three observing runs. The period is found to be 11.87 days. Observations of the reference star HR 509 (G8 V) taken on the same nights, show no periodicities and a scatter of just 20 m/s. Both the period and the shape of the velocity curve appear similar to a normal F8Ib Cepheid. If HR 7796 is a Cepheid, it is the smallest amplitude Cepheid by more than an order of magnitude.

Radial Velocity Variations in Cool Supergiants

1984 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
Hugh C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Main Sequence ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Cool Stars ◽  
Synchronous Rotation ◽  
Red Supergiants ◽  
Velocity Variations ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
Low Amplitude ◽  
Good Agreement

AbstractA survey of F, G, and W supergiants has been carried out with the DAO radial velocity spectrometer, an efficient instrument for detecting low-amplitude velocity variations in cool stars. Observations of 78 stars over five seasons show generally good agreement with OORAVEL results for spectroscopie binaries. The majority of supergiants show low-amplitude variability, with amplitudes typically 1 to 2 km s−1. The width of the cross-correlation profile has been measured for 58 supergiants. It reveals 14 stars with unusually broad lines, indicative of rotation velocities of 15 to 35 km s−1. Several have short-period binary companions and may be in synchronous rotation. The other broad-lined stars are apparently single or with long orbital periods; they may be making their first transition from the main sequence to become red supergiants.

Radial Velocities for the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star PG 1605+072

2002 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 376-377
Author(s):  
V.M. Woolf ◽  
C.S. Jeffery ◽  
D.L. Pollacco
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Line Shape ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Radial Velocities ◽  
Peak Amplitude ◽  
Amplitude Ratios ◽  
Time Line ◽  
Photometric Observations ◽  
Velocity Variations ◽  
Over Time

AbstractWe have performed high-speed spectroscopy of the pulsating subdwarf B star PG 1605+072. Its radial velocity variations have frequencies similar to those reported from photometric observations. Peak amplitude ratios are different, probably as a result of power shifting between modes over time. Line-shape variations have also been detected.

scholarly journals Masers as probes of proto-planetary discs

2004 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 362-364
Author(s):  
A.M.S. Richards ◽  
R. J. Cohen ◽  
M. Crocker ◽  
E. E. Lekht ◽  
V. Samodourov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Keplerian Orbit ◽  
Proper Motions ◽  
Central Mass ◽  
Maser Emission ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Star Forming Regions ◽  
Velocity Variations ◽  
Water Maser

Water maser emission from star forming regions has been monitored for several decades using the Puschino radio telescope, showing radial velocity variations consistent with material in Keplerian orbit around protostars. MERLIN and the EVN are now being used to image the 22 GHz emission on au scales and measure proper motions. This will distinguish discs from outflows, and provide an estimate of the central mass and possibly orbiting condensations.

scholarly journals Binaries among the WN population in the Magellanic Clouds

2003 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
Cédric Foellmi ◽  
Anthony F.J. Moffat ◽  
Martín A. Guerrero Roncel
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
Photometric Data ◽  
Systematic Search ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Velocity Variations

We have undertaken a large and extensive spectroscopic survey of WNE stars both in the SMC and LMC with various 2m and 4m telescopes, reaching a total of 78 nights, spread over three years, and obtaining over 1500 long-slit spectra of medium resolution. The first goal is a systematic search for binaries via periodic radial-velocity variations. We enlarged our dataset with photometric data from the ogle and macho databases, and with archival X-ray data from the ROSAT and Chandra satellites.

scholarly journals Precise Radial Velocities

1992 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Gordon A.H. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Radial Velocity ◽  
Radial Velocities ◽  
Velocity Variations ◽  
Low Amplitude

AbstractCurrent techniques for the detection of long-term, low-amplitude (<50 m s−1), radial velocity variations are briefly reviewed together with some of their most successful programs. In the era of 8- to 10-m telescopes we must strive for a precision of < 1ms−1.

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