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RR Lyrae: Shock waves and atmospheric motions.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Agnès Lebre
Agnès Lebre*
Affiliation:
DASGAL, Observatoire de Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France

Abstract

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New high resolution spectroscopic observations of the star RR Lyrae are reported (resolution between 15,000 and 20,000). The spectra were taken in July 1990 with the 1.52m telescope of the Observatoire de Haute Provence, using the AURELIE spectrograph, and were centered around Hβ and NaD. They were distributed in time through almost an entire composite cycle (P = 13.6 hours). Photospheric FeI lines were analysed and their FWHM variations over one luminosity cycle are interpreted in the framework of the propagation of shock waves running through the low atmospheric layers.

Type
Windows on the Instability Strip
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 139: New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation and Pulsating Variable Stars , 1993 , pp. 376
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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