On the first $\delta$ Sct--roAp hybrid pulsator and the stability of p and g modes in chemically peculiar A/F stars

Abstract

Strong magnetic fields in chemically peculiar A-type (Ap) stars typically suppress low-overtone pressure modes (p modes) but allow high-overtone p modes to be driven. KIC 11296437 is the first star to show both. We obtained and analysed a Subaru spectrum, from which we show that KIC 11296437 has abundances similar to other magnetic Ap stars, and we estimate a mean magnetic field modulus of $2.8\pm 0.5$ kG. The same spectrum rules out a double-lined spectroscopic binary, and we use other techniques to rule out binarity over a wide parameter space, so the two pulsation types originate in one $\delta$ Sct--roAp hybrid pulsator. We construct stellar models depleted in helium and demonstrate that helium settling is second to magnetic damping in suppressing low-overtone p modes in Ap stars. We compute the magnetic damping effect for selected p and g modes, and find that modes with frequencies similar to the fundamental mode are driven for polar field strengths $\lesssim 4$ kG, while other low-overtone p modes are driven for polar field strengths up to $\sim$1.5 kG. We find that the high-order g modes commonly observed in $\gamma$ Dor stars are heavily damped by polar fields stronger than 1--4 kG, with the damping being stronger for higher radial orders. We therefore explain the observation that no magnetic Ap stars have been observed as $\gamma$ Dor stars. We use our helium-depleted models to calculate the $\delta$ Sct instability strip for metallic-lined A (Am) stars, and find that driving from a Rosseland mean opacity bump at $\sim$$5\times 10^4$ K caused by the discontinuous H-ionization edge in bound-free opacity explains the observation of $\delta$ Sct pulsations in Am stars.

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