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Low Dimensional Dynamics in a Pulsating Star

G. B. Mindlin, P. T. Boyd, J. L. Caaminos, J. A. Nunez

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9510159

Abstract

We report the discovery of a low dimensional dynamical system in a 5.5 hr Hubble Space Telescope High Speed Photometer observation of a rapidly oscillating star. The topological description of the phase space orbits is given, as well as a dynamical model which describes the results. This model should motivate theorists of stellar pulsations to search for a three-dimensional system with the same topological structure to describe the mechanisms for pulsation. The equations are compatible with recently proposed nonlinear mode interaction models.

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