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Fox Machado, L.
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PhD Thesis, Universidad de La Laguna, 2003
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2003
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The seismological analysis of Delta Scuti stars give us precise
information on the stellar structure in intermediate mass stars, that is
between 1.5 and 2.5 Msun. These variable stars are suitable candidates
for probing some of the hydrodynamical processes, actually poorly
understood, occurring in the deep interior of the stars. On the other
hand, the application of stellar seismology on pulsating objects
belonging to a close open cluster makes the work easier since in this
case it can be considered that all the stars approximately have the same
age, chemical composition and distance. In addition to this, stellar
parameters like metallicity or distance are better estimated for stars
belonging to a cluster than for typical field stars.
We have studied a sample of six Delta Scuti stars belonging to the
Pleiades cluster, observed by means of the STEPHI observational network
in several intensive multi-site campaigns. Two of these campaigns were
carried out during this work. The sample consists of V650 Tau, V647
Tau, V534 Tau, HD 23628, V624 Tau and HD 23194. The data analysis of
three observing campaigns presented in this research, provided us with a
precise information on the oscillation frequencies of the last five
Delta Scuti stars, one of them hitherto considered as non pulsating star
in the Pleiades cluster. The frequency oscillations of the amplitude
spectrum of the time series were obtained by using two procedures: an
iterative sine wave fit plus prewhitening and the PERIOD98 program. A
total amount of 29 oscillation modes where detected in our sample with a
significance level above 99%.
We have improved the theoretical analysis suitable taken into account
the rotation effect not only on stellar parameters and models but also
on the oscillations eigenfrequencies, in order to obtain a better and
more realistic description of the stellar structure. The theoretical
oscillations eigenfrequencies were calculated taking into account the
second order effect in the rotational rate for rotating models computed
with the most relevant observational parameters of the cluster and of
each star, namely, metallicity, distance, age and rotational velocity.
The seismic stellar models were gathered together in ensembles of six,
one per star, with a common distance, age, metallicity and overshooting.
We have applied interpolations between theoretical frequencies,
ν_{cal}, and angular rotational velocities, Ω_{rot}, in order
to cover the rotation interval estimated for each stellar model. We have
compared the observational frequencies with the theoretical ones at each
interpolated Ω_{rot} by means of χ^{2} fitting. We have found
the best mode solution by minimization of such a quantity. The
requirement that the visibility coefficients of the oscillations modes
depend to a large extend on the angle of inclination between rotational
axis and the line of sight have been applied as a constraint of the
possible mode solutions. As a result of theoretical analysis we have
found possible identifications of the oscillation modes of the target
stars that indicate a cluster metallicity of [Fe/H]=0.0668 (Z ˜
0.02, Y ˜ 0.28) for an age of 70x10^{6} - 100x10^{6} years and
distance modulus m_{V}-M_{V} = 5.60 - 5.70. All the stars were found to
oscillate on radial and non radial p modes of low radial order. In the
framework of the present theoretical analysis we have concluded that a
sub-solar metallicity with high amount of He for the Pleiades cluster is
unlikely, in contrast with some suggestions made for others researchers.