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Nonlinear Beat Cepheid and RR Lyrae Models

Z. Kollath, J. R. Buchler, R. Szabo, Z. Csubry

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0110076

Abstract

The numerical hydrodynamic modelling of beat Cepheid behavior has been a long standing quest in which purely radiative models had failed consistently. We find that beat pulsations occur naturally when turbulent convection is accounted for in our hydrodynamics code. The development of a relaxation code and of a Floquet stability analysis greatly facilitates the search for and the analysis of beat Cepheid models. The conditions for the occurrence of beat behavior can be understood easily and at a fundamental level with the help of amplitude equations.

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