Abstract We present a study of the β Cephei instability strip based on a sample of 49 stars of this type. After deriving their effective temperatures and luminosities from their observed (B–V), (U–B) colors and parallaxes we find their positions in the HR diagram to be mostly confined to the main sequence, and their masses to lie between 7M_⊙ and 30M_⊙. Their distribution on the HR diagram matches well with our previous theoretical instability strip which has an upper bound in the luminosity and rather tight boundaries in the effective temperature.
Keywords stars --- β Cephei star --- instabilities
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