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Wider pulsation instability regions for<i>β</i>Cephei and SPB stars calculated using new Los Alamos opacities

Przemysław Walczak, Christopher J. Fontes, J. Colgan, D. P. Kilcrease, Joyce Ann Guzik

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015 · 46 citations · 28 references

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Aims. Our goal is to test the newly developed OPLIB opacity tables from Los Alamos National Laboratory and check their influence on the pulsation properties of B-type stars.

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