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Mode Identification in a Pulsating Subdwarf B Star EPIC 212707862 Observed with K2

Bachulski S., Baran A. S., Jeffery C. S., Østensen R. H., Reed M. D., Telting J. H., Kuutma T.

Acta Astronomica

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2016

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Vol. 66, No. 4

455--467

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We present an analysis of K2 observations of EPIC 212707862, a pulsating subdwarf B star. We detected 13 significant frequencies from an 81 day run during Campaign 6. Our goal was to find features that could help us to identify pulsation modes. We could not identify any multiplets, which would also have enabled us to precisely derive a rotation period. Based on amplitude modulation we estimated that period to be around 80 days. We found two period-spacing sequences, and successfully identified modal degrees for 11 out of 13 detected frequencies. We assigned six of them to l=1, and another five to l=2. These results will facilitate future theoretical modeling. This star brings to 19 the number of pulsating subdwarf B stars observed with K2. Radial velocities obtained to date and the spectral energy distribution are consistent with EPIC 212707862 being a single hot subdwarf. Analysis of the spectrum gives atmospheric parameters: Teff=28 298±162 K, log g[cm/s2]=5.479±0.025 and log (n(He)/n(H))=-2.752±0.069.

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A New Subdwarf-OB Pulsator J23341+4622

Pakštiene E., Qvam J. K. T., Østensen R. H., Telting J. H.

Acta Astronomica

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2014

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Vol. 64, No. 4

349--358

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A new sdOB variable star, J23341+4622 (SDSS J233406.10+462249.3), was discovered during photometric observations with the Nordic Optical Telescope (La Palma). We found its main pulsation frequency at 7422(±9) μHz with an amplitude of 4.5(±0.5) mma. The star is possibly a complex pulsator, as we found another significant peak at 7759(±11) μHz with an amplitude of 2.0(±0.3) mma and a possible subharmonic of the main frequency at 3508 μHz with an amplitude of 2.3 mma.

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Mt. Suhora Survey - Searching for Pulsating M Dwarfs in Kepler Public Dataset

Baran A. S., Fox-Machado L., Lykke J., Nielsen M., Telting J. H.

Acta Astronomica

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2011

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Vol. 61, No. 4

325--343

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We present our analysis of Kepler short cadence public data to search for stellar pulsations in M dwarfs. Theoretical calculations predict that these stars may suffer from a fundamental radial mode driven by the nuclear ε mechanism. First results published thus far show no significant signal around the expected frequency of 36 c/d down to 1 ppt (parts per thousand). In this paper we include new results obtained from a sample of 86 stars, although a real number of M dwarfs after spectral classification turned out to be small. Unluckily, we have not detected any significant signal typically down to 1-10 ppm (parts per million) in M dwarfs and since the sample of these stars consists of 6 objects only, we cannot make any strong conclusion if the ε mechanism drives perturbation in radius to propagate to a detectable amplitude at the surface. As a by-product of our work we provide a spectral classification of 86 Kepler objects, along with their variability and thus far unknown artifacts residing in Kepler photometry.