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Trans-Photospheric Wave Leakage in Be Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Rich Townsend*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Abstract

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The phenomenon of trans-photospheric wave leakage in stars undergoing non-radial pulsation is investigated, with an emphasis on its significance for Be stars. It is demonstrated that a symmetry breaking in line-profile variability may be used as a diagnostic for such wave leakage in these stars.

Type
3. Periodic Variations
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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