Computer Animations and the Shapes of Cepheid Velocity Curves

Volume 20 number 2 (1991)

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Charles A. Whitney

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138

Abstract

Computer programs are being developed for the simulation of stellar pulsation and stationary stellar atmospheres. This paper describes a developmental version of the pulsation program, with which the velocity curves may be synthesized from linear modes.