Bibcode
Baran, A.; Oreiro, R.; Pigulski, A.; Pérez Hernández, F.; Ulla, A.
Bibliographical reference
Baltic Astronomy, Vol. 15, p. 227-230
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2006
Citations
15
Refereed citations
12
Description
We present results of photometric observations of the high-amplitude EC
14026-type star, Balloon 090100001. The data were obtained in broad-band
B filter and span over five weeks, consisting of about 150 hours of
observations. Fourier analysis of these data led us to the detection of
at least 50 modes of pulsation, out of which 37 are independent. The
frequencies of 22 detected modes are in the region of pulsations of
EC14026-type stars, theoretically attributed to p-modes, and cluster
into four narrow ranges, around 2.8, 3.8, 4.7 and 5.5 mHz, where the
radial fundamental mode, the first, second and third overtones are
likely to occur. Surprisingly, we also detect 15 independent modes in
the low-frequency domain, between 0.1 and 0.8 mHz. These modes are
typically found in PG 1716+426-type stars, recently discovered among
cool B-type subdwarfs, and theoretically attributed to high-order
g-modes. As both kinds of oscillations are observed in Balloon
090100001, it represents a link between the two classes of pulsating hot
subdwarfs. At present, it is probably the most suitable target for
testing evolutionary scenarios and internal constitution models of these
objects by means of asteroseismology. Three of the modes we detect form
an equidistant frequency triplet which can be explained by invoking
rotational splitting of an ℓ=1 mode.