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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2018

K2 photometry and HERMES spectroscopy of the blue supergiant ρ Leo: rotational wind modulation and low-frequency waves

C. Aerts
D M Bowman
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S. Simon-Diaz
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C. Johnston
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E Moravveji
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P.G. Beck
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P. de Cat
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S Triana
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S Aigrain
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N Castro
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D Huber
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T White
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Résumé

We present an 80-d long uninterrupted high-cadence K2 light curve of the B1Iab supergiant ρ Leo (HD 91316), deduced with the method of halo photometry. This light curve reveals a dominant frequency of f rot = 0.0373 d −1 and its harmonics. This dominant frequency corresponds with a rotation period of 26.8 d and is subject to amplitude and phase modulation. The K2 photometry additionally reveals multiperiodic low-frequency variability (<1.5 d −1) and is in full agreement with low-cadence high-resolution spectroscopy assembled during 1800 d. The spectroscopy reveals rotational modulation by a dynamic aspherical wind with an amplitude of about 20 km s −1 in the H α line, as well as photospheric velocity variations of a few km s −1 at frequencies in the range 0.2–0.6 d −1 in the Si III 4567 Å line. Given the large macroturbulence needed to explain the spectral line broadening of the star, we interpret the detected photospheric velocity as due to travelling superinertial low-degree large-scale gravity waves with dominant tangential amplitudes and discuss why ρ Leo is an excellent target to study how the observed photospheric variability propagates into the wind.
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hal-01774846 , version 1 (24-04-2018)

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C. Aerts, D M Bowman, S. Simon-Diaz, B Buysschaert, C. Johnston, et al.. K2 photometry and HERMES spectroscopy of the blue supergiant ρ Leo: rotational wind modulation and low-frequency waves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 476 (1), pp.1234 - 1241. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty308⟩. ⟨hal-01774846⟩
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