Photometric Analysis of HD 213616: a Multi-modal Delta Scuti Variable Star

Volume 45 number 1 (2017)

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Vance Petriew

P.O. Box 9 Station main, White City, SK S4L 5B1, Canada; vance.petriew@sasktel.net

Horace A. Smith

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; smith@pa.msu.edu

Abstract

We analyzed new photometry of HD 213616, showing that, instead of being a W Ursae Majoris eclipsing binary, it is a multimode delta Scuti star of relatively high amplitude. Three independent pulsation modes were identified in a Fourier analysis of the photometry, in addition to several combination pulsation frequencies.