期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 595, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629175
关键词
stars: variables: general; stars: oscillations; stars: rotation; open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 3766
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation
Context. Pulsating stars are windows to the physics of stars enabling us to see glimpses of their interior. Not all stars pulsate, however. On the main sequence, pulsating stars form an almost continuous sequence in brightness, except for a magnitude range between delta Scuti and slowly pulsating B stars. Against all expectations, 36 periodic variables were discovered in 2013 in this luminosity range in the open cluster NGC 3766, the origins of which was a mystery. Aims. We investigate the properties of those new variability class candidates in relation to their stellar rotation rates and stellar multiplicity. Methods. We took multi-epoch spectra over three consecutive nights using ESO's Very Large Telescope. Results. We find that the majority of the new variability class candidates are fast-rotating pulsators that obey a new period-luminosity relation. We argue that the new relation discovered here has a different physical origin to the period-luminosity relations observed for Cepheids. Conclusions. We anticipate that our discovery will boost the relatively new field of stellar pulsation in fast-rotating stars, will open new doors for asteroseismology, and will potentially offer a new tool to estimate stellar ages or cosmic distances.
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