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8.6: References and Supplemental Reading

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    1. Eddington, A.S.: On the Pulsations of a Gaseous Star and the Problem of the Cepheid Variables. Part I, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 79, 1918, pp. 2 - 22.
    2. Eddington, A.S.: The Internal Constitution of the Stars, Dover, New York, 1959, chap. 8.
    3. Ledoux, P.: On the Radial Pulsation of Stars", Ap.J. 102, 1945, pp.143 - 153
    4. Ledoux, P., and Walraven, Th.: "Variable Stars", Handb. d. Phys., Vol. 51, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 1958, pp.353 - 601.
    5. Chandrasekhar, S.: Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability, Oxford University Press, London, 1961.
    6. Collins, G.W.,II: The Virial Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics, Pachart Press, Tucson, Ariz., 1978.
    7. Cox, J.P.: Theory of Stellar Pulsation, Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., 1980.
    8. Baker,N., and Kippenhahn, R.: The Pulsations of Models of δ Cephei Stars", z. f. Astrophys. 54, 1962, pp.114 - 151.
    9. Cox, J.P.: On Second Helium Ionization as a Cause of Pulsational Instability in Stars, Ap.J. 138, 1963, pp.487 - 536.
    10. Castor, J.I.: On the Calculation of Linear, Nonadiabatic Pulsations of Stellar Models, Ap.J. 166, 1971, pp.109 - 129.
    11. Iben, I., Jr.: On the Specification of the Blue Edge Of The RR Lyrae Instability Strip, Ap.J. 166, 1971, pp.131 - 151.
    12. Arfken, G.: Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 2nd. ed. Academic, New York, 1970, pp.569 - 572.
    13. Deubner, F.-L., and Gough, D. "Helioseismology: Oscillations as a Diagnostic of the Solar Interior", Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 22, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, Calif., 1984, pp.593 - 619.
    14. Lamb, H.: Hydrodynamics 5th.ed., Cambridge University Press, New York, 1924, pp.467 - 484.
    15. Cowling, T.G.: The Non-radial Oscillations of Polytropic Stars, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 101, 1941, pp.367 - 373.
    16. Papaloizou,J.C.B., and Pringle,J.E.: Non-radial Oscillations of Rotating Star and Their Relevance to the Short-Period Oscillations of Cataclysmic Variables, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 182, 1978, pp.423 - 442.
    17. Ulrich, R.K., and Rhodes, E.J., Jr.: Testing Solar Models with Global Solar Oscillations in the 5-Minute Band, Ap.J. 265, 1983, pp.551 - 563.
    18. Penrod, G.D. "Nonradial Pulsations and the Be Phenomenon", Physics of Be Stars, Ed: A.Slettebak and T.P.Snow, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987, p. 463.
    19. Smith, M.A., Gies, D.R. and Penrod, G.D.: "Spectral Transients in the Line Profiles of l Eridani", Physics of Be Stars, Ed: A.Slettebak and T.P.Snow, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987, pp. 464-467.

    For a background of the observational material that initiated much of the interest in pulsating stars, read

    Shapley, H.: On the Nature and Cause of Cepheid Variables Ap. J. 40, 1940, pp.448-465.

    One of the most readable books on stellar pulsation remains

    Rosseland, S.: The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars, Dover, New York, 1964.

    An excellent review of the nonadiabatic effects in stellar pulsation theory can be found in

    Christy, R.F.: Pulsation Theory, Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 4, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, Calif., 1966, pp.353 - 392.


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