Nonlinear Properties of the Semiregular Variable Stars
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چکیده
We demonstrate how, with a purely empirical analysis of the irregular lightcurve data, one can extract a great deal of information about the stellar pulsation mechanism. An application to R Sct thus shows that the irregular lightcurve is the result of the nonlinear interaction of two highly nonadiabatic pulsation modes, namely a linearly unstable, low frequency mode, and the second mode that, although linearly stable, gets entrained through a 2:1 resonance. In the parlance of nonlinear dynamics the pulsation is the result of a 4 dimensional chaotic dynamics.
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