EVIDENCE FOR TEMPERATURE CHANGE AND OBLIQUE PULSATION FROM LIGHT CURVE FITS OF THE PULSATING WHITE DWARF GD 358
EVIDENCE FOR TEMPERATURE CHANGE AND OBLIQUE PULSATION FROM LIGHT CURVE FITS OF THE PULSATING WHITE DWARF GD 358
Convective driving, the mechanism originally proposed by Brickhill (1991, 1983) for pulsating white dwarf stars, has gained general acceptance as the generic linear instability mechanism in DAV and DBV white dwarfs. This physical mechanism naturally leads to a nonlinear formulation, reproducing the observed light curves of many pulsating white dwarfs. …