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Excitation Mechanisms of Oscillations in Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Yoji Osaki
Yoji Osaki*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113, Japan

Abstract

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Excitation mechanisms of oscillations in stars are discussed, in particular on the problems of the Beta Cephei pulsations and of the solar oscillations. A long-standing mystery about the excitation mechanism of the Beta Cephei pulsations seems to have finally been solved, which is due to availability of the new “OPAL” opacities. The very mechanism is the classical к-mechanism, however, due to enhanced heavy element opacities at temperature around 2 × 105K. By using the new opacities, three independent groups have found pulsational instabilities for the fundamental radial mode and a few low-degree non-radial modes in Beta Cephei models. Stochastic excitation of solar oscillations by turbulent convection is then discussed. It is shown that the noise generation by quadrupole radiation concentrated at the top of the convection zone may well explain the frequency dependence of the observed solar acoustic power pumped into individual p-modes.

Type
VI. Asteroseismology: theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 137: Inside the Stars , 1993 , pp. 512 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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