JHT at Wrocław
Constraints on angular numbers of pulsation modes
from spectroscopy

John Telting,   Wrocław,   June 2008
page 04
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Introduction:   Pulsational line-profile variability

For rotating stars (Veqsin(i) > intrinsic line broadening) the Doppler-imaging principle applies: the stellar disk is resolved in the velocity space of the line profile.

Pulsation modes up to L∼20 can be observed with high-resolution spectroscopy.
 
l=0 m=0
radial mode
l=4 m=0
zonal mode
l=5 m=-3
prograde mode
l=9 m=3
retrograde mode
l=7 m=-7
sectoral prograde