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Title:
Surface trapping and leakage of low-frequency g modes in rotating early-type stars - I. Qualitative analysis
Authors:
Townsend, R. H. D.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 318, Issue 1, pp. 1-8. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2000
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
STARS: EARLY-TYPE, STARS: OSCILLATIONS, STARS: ROTATION
DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03536.x
Bibliographic Code:
2000MNRAS.318....1T

Abstract

A qualitative study of the surface trapping of low-frequency non-radial g modes in rotating early-type stars is undertaken within the Cowling, adiabatic and traditional approximations. A dispersion relation describing the local character of waves in a rotating star is derived; this dispersion relation is then used to construct propagation diagrams for a 7-Msolar stellar model, which show the location and extent of wave trapping zones inside the star. It is demonstrated that, at frequencies below a cut-off, waves cannot be fully trapped within the star, and will leak through the surface. Expressions for the cut-off frequency are derived in both the non-rotating and rotating cases; it is found from these expressions that the cut-off frequency increases with the rotation rate for all but prograde sectoral modes. While waves below the cut-off cannot be reflected at the stellar surface, the presence of a sub-surface convective region in the stellar model, owing to Heii ionization, means that they can become partially trapped within the star. The energy leakage associated with such waves, which are assigned the moniker virtual modes owing to their discrete eigenfrequencies, means that stability analyses which disregard their existence (by assuming perfect reflection at the stellar surface) may be in error. The results are of possible relevance to the 53 Per and SPB classes of variable star, which exhibit pulsation frequencies of the same order of magnitude as the cut-off frequencies found for the stellar model. It is suggested that observations either of an upper limit on variability periods (corresponding to the cut-off), or of line-profile variations owing to virtual modes, may permit asteroseismological studies of the outer layers of these systems.

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