Asteroseismology of OB stars with hundreds of single snapshot spectra (and a few time-series of selected targets)
Abstract
Imagine we could do asteroseismology of large samples of OB-type stars by using just one spectrum per target. That would be great! But this is probably a crazy and stupid idea. Or maybe not. Maybe we have the possibility to open a new window to investigate stellar oscillations in massive stars that has been in front of us for many years, but has not attracted very much our attention: the characterization and understanding of the so-called macroturbulent broadening in OB-type stars.
- Publication:
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New Windows on Massive Stars
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131400670X
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1409.2416
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUS..307..194S
- Keywords:
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- stars: early-type;
- stars: oscillations (including pulsations);
- line: profiles;
- techniques: spectroscopic;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings IAUS307: New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J.H. Groh \&