Nonradial Pulsations in Classical Cepheids of the Magellanic Clouds

Abstract

We have performed systematic frequency analysis of the LMC Cepheids observed by OGLE project. Several new types of pulsation behaviour are identified, including triple-mode and amplitude-modulated double-mode pulsations. In ~10% of the first overtone Cepheids we find low amplitude secondary periodicities corresponding to nonradial modes. This is the first evidence for excitation of nonradial oscillations in Classical Cepheid variables.

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in "Variable Stars in the Local Group", ASP Conference Series, eds. D. W. Kurtz & K. Pollard