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Nonlinear RR Lyrae Models with New Livermore Opacities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. A. Guzik  and
A. N. Cox
J. A. Guzik
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
A. N. Cox
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

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A. N. Cox recently showed that a 20% opacity decrease in the 20,000–30,000 K region as indicated by the new Livermore OPAL opacities reconciles the discrepancy between pulsation and evolution masses of double-mode RR Lyrae variables. Nonlinear hydrodynamic calculations were performed for RR Lyrae models of mass 0.75M⊙, 51L⊙, and Z = 0.0001 (Osterhoff II type) including this opacity decrease. The Stellingwerf periodic relaxation method was used to converge the models to a limit cycle, and the Floquet matrix eigenvalues calculated to search for a tendency of the fundamental mode to grow from the full-amplitude overtone solution, and the overtone mode to grow from the full-amplitude fundamental solution, thereby predicting double-mode behavior. Models of Teff < 7000 K with the opacity decrease have positive fundamental-mode growth rates in the overtone solution, in contrast to earlier results by Hodson and Cox (1982), and models with Teff > 7000 have positive 1st overtone growth rates in the fundamental-mode solution, but double-mode behavior was not found.

Type
III. Models
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 134: Nonlinear Phenomena in Stellar Variability , 1993 , pp. 307 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993

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