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On Stothers’ and Simon’s Binary-Star Hypothesis for Beta Canis Majoris Star Pulsation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

John R. Percy  and
Katherine Madore

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The β CMa stars are short-period pulsating variable stars lying slightly above the upper main sequence. Although they have been known and studied for 70 years, little is known about the nature and cause of their pulsation.

STOTHERS and SIMON (1969) have recently advanced an hypothesis – hereinafter known as the hypothesis – which proposes that all β CMa stars are the former secondary components of massive binary systems. The former primary components, being more massive, have evolved first, have shed their envelopes by rapid mass loss, and have deposited helium-enriched material from their cores upon the surfaces of the secondary components. This causes the secondary components (now the primary components) to become unstable, via the so-called „μ-mechanism“, to nuclear-energized radial pulsations.

Type
IV. Duplicity and its Consequences among the Intrinsic Variable Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 15: New Directions and Frontiers in Variable Stars Research , 1971 , pp. 197 - 203
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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