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High-speed ultraviolet photometry of HD 60435We present the first high-speed ultraviolet photometry of an oscillating Ap star, HD 60435. After removing known orbital effects related to the Hubble Space Telescope, we confirm the presence of a strong pulsation period at a frequency of 123.70 cycles per day. In addition, we find significant amplitude modulation of this frequency that we suggest could be the result of beating of multiple periodicities. In this context, we suggest evidence for the presence of four additional frequencies at nu = 120.56, 126.55, 149.49, and 221.03 cycles per day. Three of these frequencies correspond well to frequencies detected in optical observations of HD 60435. The fourth, at 149.49 cycles per day, if real, is a potentially new pulsation mode that has not been detected in ground-based observations of this star. The amplitude of the 123 cycles per day pulsation is significantly larger in the ultraviolet than it is in the blue.
Document ID
19930071107
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Taylor, M.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Nelson, M. J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bless, R. C.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, United States)
Dolan, J. F.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Elliot, J. L.
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Percival, J. W.
(Wisconsin Univ. Madison, United States)
Robinson, E. L.
(Texas Univ. Austin, United States)
Van Citters, G. W.
(NSF, Div. of Astronomical Sciences, Washington; U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
August 20, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters
Volume: 413
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0004-637X
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
93A55104
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-1613
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-26555
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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