A study of convection with delta Scuti stars in open clusters: Pleiades

Abstract

In this work we propose a preliminary seismic investigation of $\delta$ Scuti stars in the Pleiades cluster, focusing on potential diagnostics of convection and core-overshooting. Taking into account the effect of fast rotation in the modelling, we compare observed frequencies for 4 $\delta$ Scuti stars with radial linear instability predictions. A satisfying agreement is reached between the predicted ranges of unstable modes and those derived from observations for ``low-mass'' stars ($\sim 1.55M_{\odot }$). However, a strong disagreement is found for ``high-mass'' stars ($\sim 1.77M_{\odot }$), whatever the mixing length $(\alpha )$ value. These results are compared with previous ones obtained for Praesepe.

4 pages, 1 figure, ASP Conference Series (IAU-185)