Bouncing against the Yellow Void—Exploring the Outbursts of nρ Cassiopeiae from Visual Observations

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://app.aavso.org/jaavso/article/3791/" target="_blank" >https://app.aavso.org/jaavso/article/3791/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bouncing against the Yellow Void—Exploring the Outbursts of nρ Cassiopeiae from Visual Observations

Original language description

Massive stars are rare but of paramount importance for their immediate environment and their host galaxies. They lose mass from their birth through strong stellar winds up to the spectacular end of their lives as supernovae. The mass loss changes as they evolve and in some phases it becomes episodic or displays outburst activity. One such phase is the Yellow Hypergiant, in which they experience outbursts due to their pulsations and atmosphere instabilities. This is depicted in photometry as a decrease in their apparent magnitude. The object ρ Cassiopeiae (ρ Cas) is a bright and well known variable star that has experienced four major outbursts over the last century, with the most recent one detected in 2013. We derived the light curves from both visual and digital observations and we show that with some processing and a small correction (~0.2 mag) for the visual the two curves match. This highlights the importance of visual observations both because of the accuracy we can obtain and because they fully cover the historic activity (only the last two of the four outbursts are well covered by digital observations) with a homogeneous approach. By fitting the outburst profiles from visual observations we derive the duration of each outburst. We notice a decreasing trend in the duration, as well as shorter intervals between the outbursts. This activity indicates that ρ Cas may be preparing to pass to the next evolutionary phase

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-00150S" target="_blank" >GA20-00150S: Structure and evolution of stellar ejecta</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers

ISSN

0271-9053

e-ISSN

2380-3606

Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

49-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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