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Nonlinear Analysis of the Lightcurve of the Variable Star R Scuti | | J. R. Buchler
; Z. Kollath
; T. Serre
; J. Mattei
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9 Jul 1997 | | Journal: | Astrophysical Journal, 462, 489 (1996) | | Subject: | Astrophysics; Chaotic Dynamics | astro-ph chao-dyn nlin.CD | | Affiliation: | University of Florida), Z. Kollath (Konkoly Observatory), T. Serre, and J. Mattei (AAVSO | | Abstract: | It is first shown that the observational light curve data of R Scuti, a star of the RV Tau type, is not multi-periodic, and that it cannot have been generated by a linear stochastic (AR) process. By default, the signal must be a manifestation of deterministic chaos. We use a novel nonlinear time-series analysis, the global flow reconstruction technique, to probe the properties of the irregular pulsation cycles. We show in particular that the chaotic dynamics of this star’s complicated lightcurve is captured by a simple 4D polynomial map or flow (4 first order ODEs). Importantly also, the method allows us to quantify an irregular signal which has the potential benefit for extracting novel stellar constraints from an irregular light-curve. Finally, from the low dimensionality 4 of the flow we can infer a simple physical picture of the pulsations, and arguments are presented that the pulsations of R Sct are the result of the nonlinear interaction of two vibrational normal modes of the star. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9707116 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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