C. Barban et al. - COROT/SWG/Milestone 2000, eds. E. Michel and A. Hui-Bon-Hoa

Seismology of Delta Scuti stars with COROT: prospects for mode identification

Caroline Barban, MarieJo Goupil, and Claude Van't Veer
Observatoire de Paris, DASGAL, UMR 8633, 92195 Meudon, France
 
Rafael Garrido
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, C.S.I.C., Apdo. 3004, 18080, Granada , Spain

 

Abstract

Delta Scuti stars are high amplitude, nonradial multiperiodic oscillators. The major problem is the identification of the observed frequencies as specific oscillation modes, however this step is important to provide constraints upon the internal structure of the star.

We show here that despite the complicated frequency distributions which can be expected from COROT space mission for a typical delta Scuti star, it will be possible to identify at least some modes or at least the degree for low-l modes from space data.