{"paper":{"title":"Opacity Effects on Pulsations of A-Type Stars","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","authors_text":"Chris Fryer, Christopher J. Fontes, Joyce A Guzik","submitted_at":"2018-06-02T18:56:33Z","abstract_excerpt":"The effects of opacities in driving pulsations and extending the pulsation instability region for B-type stars (SPB and $\\beta$ Cep variables) have recently been explored by, e.g., Walczak et al. 2015, 2017, Daszynska-Daszkiewicz et al. 2017; Moravveji 2016, and Cugier 2014. For these stars, the pulsations are driven by the opacity bump of Fe-group elements at around 200,000 K in the stellar envelope. For $\\delta$ Scuti pulsations in A-type stars, pulsations are driven instead by the $\\kappa$ effect in the second helium ionization region at around 50,000 K. Opacity modifications investigated f"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1806.00688","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}