Bibcode
Aerts, C.; De Cat, P.; De Ridder, J.; van Winckel, H.; Raskin, G.; Davignon, G.; Uytterhoeven, K.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 449, Issue 1, April I 2006, pp.305-311
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Description
Aims.We made a seismic study of the young massive β Cephei star HD
203664 with the goal of constraining its interior structure.Methods.Our
study is based on a time series of 328 new Geneva 7-colour photometric
data of the star spread over 496.8 days.Results.The data confirm the
frequency of the dominant mode of the star, which we refined to
f_1=6.02885 c d-1. The mode has a large amplitude of 37 mmag
in V and is unambiguously identified as a dipole mode (?=2) from its
amplitude ratios and non-adiabatic computations. Besides f_1, we
discovered two additional new frequencies in the star with amplitudes
above 4σ: f_2=6.82902 c d-1 and f_3=4.81543 c
d-1, or one of their daily aliases. The amplitudes of these
two modes are only between 3 and 4 mmag, which explains why they were
not detected before. Their amplitude ratios are too uncertain for mode
identification. Conclusions.We show that the observed oscillation
spectrum of HD 203664 is compatible with standard stellar models but
that we have insufficient information for asteroseismic inferences.
Among the large-amplitude β Cephei stars, HD 203664 stands out as
the only one rotating at a significant fraction of its critical rotation
velocity (~ 40%).