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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
For the purpose of observing β Cephei and SPB stars with optical telescopes on board future space missions, we have developed an automatic photometric search of stars falling inside the β Cephei and SPB instability strips. A list has been compiled which is available upon request from the authors ([email protected];[email protected]).
The boundaries of the instability strips have been defined by observational β – c0 HR diagrams based on Stræmgren photometry (Sterken & Jerzykiewicz 1993 = SK93). The ZAMS has been set as the lower limit of both strips. Low and high temperature limits are set as those given by SK93 and the upper limit is fixed by the photometry β of Cep stars found in the literature. For the SPB stars we have followed the same procedure. We have found the following boundaries: β Cephei: 0.2295c0 + 2.6263 > β > 0.0394c0 + 2.5656; 0.17 > c0 > –0.1; SPB: 2.630 > β > 0.2642co + 2.6207; 0.8 > c0 > 0.17.