{beta} Cephei pulsating variables from TESS and Gaia Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Shi X.-D.
  2. Qian S.-B.
  3. Zhu L.-Y.
  4. Li L.-J.
  5. Zhao E.-G.
  6. Lin W.-X.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

{beta} Cephei pulsating variable (BCEP) stars are the most massive pulsating variable stars in the main sequence, exhibiting both p- and g-mode pulsations. In this study, we identified 155 BCEP stars or candidates using data from TESS and Gaia, of which 83 were first confirmed as BCEP stars. They have visual magnitudes ranging from 8 to 12mag and effective temperatures between approximately 20000 and 30000K, while the parallaxes of most targets are between 0.2 and 0.6mas. The study indicates that these BCEP stars have pulsation periods ranging from 0.06 to 0.31 days, with amplitudes ranging from 0.1 to 55.8 mmag in the TESS band. Additionally, the number of BCEP stars increases as the pulsation amplitude decreases. These targets align with the distribution region of BCEP stars in the luminosity-period (L-P) and temperature-period diagrams. We have updated the L-P relation of BCEP stars. The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram indicates that these targets are in the main-sequence evolutionary phase, with masses ranging from 7 to 20M_{sun}_ and luminosities between 2800 and 71000L_{sun}_. They are almost in the theoretical instability region of BCEP stars but as previously reported, this region at the low-mass end (red) is not filled. The distribution of the pulsation constant indicates that the dominant pulsation periods of BCEP stars consist mainly of low-order p-mode pulsations with a high proportion of radial fundamental modes. These BCEP stars are excellent objects for enhancing our understanding of the structure and evolution of massive stars through asteroseismology.

Keywords
  1. visible-astronomy
  2. broad-band-photometry
  3. trigonometric-parallax
  4. extinction
  5. effective-temperature
  6. variable-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2024ApJS..271...28S
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22710028

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History

2024-07-02T11:40:24Z
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2024-07-02T11:40:24Z
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2024-09-24T20:14:55Z
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