The Colloquium takes place every Wednesday at 11:15 AM - Warsaw Copernicus Astronomical Centre online by means of Zoom platform. The Colloquium is given in English and chaired by dr Stanisław Bajtlik (bajtlik@camk.edu.pl). People from outside of the Copernicus Center are very welcome to participate. For technical detailes please contact Dr. Stanislaw Bajtlik.
Amadeusz Miszuda (CAMK, Warsaw)
Eclipsing binary systems are well-proven benchmarks in testing stellar evolution theory. Precise stellar parameters that can come from their analysis aid systems' age determination along with tracing back their evolution history. Eclipsing binaries that contain pulsating components are a special subclass of binaries that combine information coming from orbital and pulsational analyses. Whereas the single-star pulsators are rather well understood, the precise effect that binarity and possible mass transfer have on the pulsational characteristics of components has yet to be determined. In my talk, I will highlight some of the most important results from my studies of pulsating components in binary systems. In particular I will discuss the effect that accumulation of He in outer layers of accretor caused by mass transfer has on excitation of the high radial-order g modes in models of delta Scuti stars and the evolution of radial mode frequencies during the main sequence evolutionary phase.
Journal Club takes place on Mondays at 11:00 AM in the Seminar Room. The seminar is given in English and is chaired by Angelos Karakonstantakis, Gergely Hajdu, and Fatemeh Kayanikhoo.