HD 134214 (BD
4081) is the rapidly oscillating Ap stars with
the highest principal oscillation frequency at about 2949
Hz. It
shows a peak-to-peak variation in its pulsational frequency on a time scale of
approximately 248 days with a semi-amplitude in B about 3.5 mmag (Kreidl et al.
1994). Their data shows no evidence of amplitude modulation. During the
1997-98, 1998-99, and 1999-2000 observing seasons 29, 33, and 32 sets of uvby photometry, respectively, were obtained with the FCAPT. There is no
evidence of periodicity when the data is examined by the Scargle (1982)
periodogram. Usually only one observation per night was obtained,
but for a few nights two observations per night were made. But only with
closely spaced continuous observations will one find the principal oscillation
frequency. The standard deviations for the difference of the check-comparison
stars (Table 5) are slightly larger than that for other pairs in this series of
papers, but these stars are observed through a greater airmass than most other
stars.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by NSF grant AST-9528506. I appreciate the continuing efforts of Louis J. Boyd, Robert J. Dukes Jr., and George P. McCook to keep the FCAPT operating properly. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at the CDS, Strasbourg, France.
Copyright The European Southern Observatory (ESO)