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28 March 2024
 
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Empirical Determination of Convection Parameters in White Dwarfs I : Whole Earth Telescope Observations of EC14012-1446
J. L. Provencal ; M. H. Montgomery ; A. Kanaan ; S. E. Thompson ; J. Dalessio ; H. L. Shipman ; D. Childers ; J. C. Clemens ; R. Rosen ; P. Henrique ; A. Bischoff-Kim ; W. Strickland ; D. Chandler ; B. Walter ; T. K. Watson ; B. Castanheira ; S. Wang ; G. Handler ; M. Wood ; S. Vennes ; P. Nemeth ; S. O. Kepler ; M. Reed ; A. Nitta ; S. J. Kleinman ; T. Brown ; S. -L. Kim ; D. Sullivan ; Wen-Ping Chen ; M. Yang ; Chia-You Shih ; X. J. Jiang ; A. V. Sergeev ; A. Maksim ; R. Janulis ; K. S. Baliyan ; H. O. Vats ; S. Zola ; A. Baran ; M. Winiarski ; W. Ogloza ; M. Paparo ; Z. Bognar ; P. Papics ; D. Kilkenny ; R. Sefako ; D. Buckley ; N. Loaring ; A. Kniazev ; R. Silvotti ; S. Galleti ; T. Nagel ; G. Vauclair ; N. Dolez ; J. R. Fremy ; J. Perez ; J. M. Almenara ; L. Fraga ;
Date 11 Apr 2012
AbstractWe report on analysis of 308.3 hrs of high speed photometry targeting the pulsating DA white dwarf EC14012-1446. The data were acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during the 2008 international observing run XCOV26. The Fourier transform of the light curve contains 19 independent frequencies and numerous combination frequencies. The dominant peaks are 1633.907, 1887.404, and 2504.897 microHz. Our analysis of the combination amplitudes reveals that the parent frequencies are consistent with modes of spherical degree l=1. The combination amplitudes also provide m identifications for the largest amplitude parent frequencies. Our seismology analysis, which includes 2004--2007 archival data, confirms these identifications, provides constraints on additional frequencies, and finds an average period spacing of 41 s. Building on this foundation, we present nonlinear fits to high signal-to-noise light curves from the SOAR 4.1m, McDonald 2.1m, and KPNO 2m telescopes. The fits indicate a time-averaged convective response timescale of 99.4 +/- 17 s, a temperature exponent 85 +/- 6.2 and an inclination angle of 32.9 +/- 3.2 degrees. We present our current empirical map of the convective response timescale across the DA instability strip.
Source arXiv, 1204.2558
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