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Diago Nebot, Pascual David
Fabregat Llueca, Juan (dir.); Gutiérrez Soto, Juan (dir.) Universitat de València. Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica |
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The interiors of the stars are among the most difficult parts of the Universe to
observe. Essentially, asteroseismology tries to make use of the oscillations to
prove the stellar interiors, which are not directly observable. The basic
principles of asteroseismology are, to a certain extent, similar to those
developed and employed by Earth seismologists. Asteroseismology relies on
advanced mathematical descriptions of oscillations in a three-dimensional body
and numerical modeling. It is therefore a prominent example of interdisciplinary
science.
The general aim of this work is the study of Be stars with the CoRoT space
mission. Classical Be stars are B-type stars that exhibit line emission over the
pho- tospheric spectrum. The excess is attributed to a circumstellar gaseous
component that is commonly accepted to be in the form of an equatorial disk.
The mechanisms responsible for the pr...
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The interiors of the stars are among the most difficult parts of the Universe to
observe. Essentially, asteroseismology tries to make use of the oscillations to
prove the stellar interiors, which are not directly observable. The basic
principles of asteroseismology are, to a certain extent, similar to those
developed and employed by Earth seismologists. Asteroseismology relies on
advanced mathematical descriptions of oscillations in a three-dimensional body
and numerical modeling. It is therefore a prominent example of interdisciplinary
science.
The general aim of this work is the study of Be stars with the CoRoT space
mission. Classical Be stars are B-type stars that exhibit line emission over the
pho- tospheric spectrum. The excess is attributed to a circumstellar gaseous
component that is commonly accepted to be in the form of an equatorial disk.
The mechanisms responsible for the production and dynamics of the
circumstellar gas are still not constrained. Observations of non-radial pulsation
beating phenomena connected to outbursts point toward a relevance of
pulsation, but this mechanism cannot be gene- ralized. In this regard, the
observation of classical Be stars with the high-precision CoRoT satellite is
providing important keys to understand the physics of these objects and the
nature of the Be phenomenon.
In order to study the light variations of the selected stars we use photometric
and spectroscopic observations. These observations allow us to extract
frequencies, amplitudes and phases of these variations. As we will show, these
light variations can be connected with pulsations on the stellar surface. For
carrying out the frequency analysis we have developed a new code based on
standard Fourier analysis. The point is that this code, called pasper, allows the
frequency analysis of large sets of light curves in an automatic mode.
This Ph.D. thesis is arranged as follows: In the first three Chapters we describe
the scientific framework of this project, giving a brief description on Asteroseismology,
presenting the current status of Be stars, and describing the basics of
the Fourier analysis and the rudiments of the time series analysis.
At the early begin of this Ph.D. thesis, the CoRoT satellite was still on ground
getting ready for the launch. In this context, we perform a search for shortperiod
B and Be star variables in the low metallicity environment of the
Magellanic Clouds. This study constitutes the Part I of this Ph.D. thesis. This
Part has a double goal: i) to test the frequency analysis codes; and ii) to detect
observationally β Cephei and SPB-like B-type pulsators in low metallicity
environments, actually not predicted by the pulsational theory and models. This
constitutes the Part I.
Part II is devoted to the study of Be stars with the CoRoT space mission. Here
we depict a complete review on the CoRoT mission. We also describe the
results on the analysis of three Be stars from the CoRoT exoplanet field. Finally,
we present the results on the frequency analysis of the late Be star HD 50 209,
observed in the seismology field of the CoRoT satellite. The analysis of this Be
star has revealed up to sixty frequencies, grouped in six different and separated
sets, attributed to g-mode pulsations.
Finally, we resume the main conclusions of the whole project, including prospects
and future work to be done. An addendum with all the published results
derived from this project has been added at the end of this Part II. Part III encloses
the Appendixes, providing a brief summary of this work in Spanish, a
complete description on basic equations of non-radial oscillation, the user guide
of the PASPER code and the user guide of the KURTZ_BOS code.El objetivo de la asterosismología es describir el interior de las estrellas a partir
de las oscilaciones. El interior de las estrellas es, posiblemente, el lugar más
difícil de estudiar de todo el Universo, ya que las condiciones especiales que
allí se dan no pueden reproducirse en ningún laboratorio terrestre. Así, la
importancia de esta ciencia en el estudio global de la física estelar es crucial.
Los principios básicos de la asterosismología son, en esencia, similares a los
que los geólogos usan en el estudio de terremotos terrestres. La
asterosismología hace uso de descripciones matemáticas de las oscilaciones
en cuerpos tridimensionales, creando para ello sofisticadas simulaciones
numéricas. Es, por tanto, un claro ejemplo de ciencia multidisciplinar.
El objetivo general de esta Tesis Doctoral es el estudio de las estrellas Be con
las misión espacial CoRoT. Las estrellas Be son objetos de secuencia principal,
con alta velocidad de rotación, que presentan un exceso infrarrojo y emisión en
las líneas de Balmer, debido a la presencia de una envoltura circumestelar
concentrada en el ecuador y generada por eyecciones discretas de materia
originado por mecanismos que todavía no son bien conocidos. Los
mecanismos propuestos para explicar la eyección de materia son hasta ahora,
las pulsaciones no radiales combinadas con la alta velocidad de rotación
característica de este tipo de estrellas. La observación de estrellas Be con el
satélite de alta precisión CoRoT está aportando claves importantísimas para
comprender la física de estos objetos y la naturaleza del fenómeno Be.
Para la detección de señales periódicas en las estrellas seleccionadas
utilizamos tanto observaciones fotométricas como espectroscópicas. A partir de
las observaciones obtenemos las frecuencias, amplitudes y fases de las
variaciones. Como se muestra en la tesis, las variaciones en las curvas de luz
estudiadas podrían estar estrechamente relacionadas con los mecanismos de
pulsación estelar. Para realizar el análisis de frecuencias hemos desarrollado
un código basado en técnicas estándar de análisis de Fourier. Este código,
llamado Pasper, nos permite analizar grandes conjuntos de datos de forma casi
automática.
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