Variable turbulent convection as the cause of the Blazhko effect - testing the Stothers model
Variable turbulent convection as the cause of the Blazhko effect - testing the Stothers model
The amplitude and phase modulation observed in a significant fraction of the RR Lyrae variables - the Blazhko effect - represents a long-standing enigma in stellar pulsation theory. No satisfactory explanation for the Blazhko effect has been proposed so far. In this paper we focus on the Stothers (2006) idea, …