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New advances in asteroseismology of pulsating hot subdwarf stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

S. Charpinet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 14 av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France email: scharpin@ast.obs-mip.fr
V. Van Grootel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 14 av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France email: scharpin@ast.obs-mip.fr
S.K. Randall
Affiliation:
ESO, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
E.M. Green
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721
G. Fontaine
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
P. Brassard
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
P. Chayer
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Abstract

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Hot subdwarf stars (of the sdB and sdO type) host three known classes of nonradial pulsators. Two of them feature short period (P ~ 60 - 600 s) accoustic mode oscillations, while the third group is characterized by slow g-mode deformations with periods of ~ 1 - 2h. These pulsations offer favorable grounds to infer some of the internal properties of these objects through asteroseismology. This has been exploited for the rapid p-mode sdB pulsators and the present contribution reviews some of the recent advances in this field. The long period g-mode pulsators, whose vibrations probe much deeper inside the star, are also of high interest. With the advent of space observations using CoRoT and KEPLER, the asteroseismology of these slower oscillators will also become a possibility, and likely contribute to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of these hot and compact stars.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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