Reconstructing Cepheid Light Curve with Fourier Techniques I: The Fourier Expansion and Interrelations

Details Reconstructing Cepheid Light Curve with Fourier Techniques I: The Fourier Expansion and Interrelations Reconstructing Cepheid Light Curve with Fourier Techniques I: The Fourier Expansion and Interrelations

2002-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212106v1

Astrophys.J. 586 (2003) 959-982

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTex, 52 pages, 8 tables, 24 figures, some figures are in .jpg, ApJ preprint style, ApJ accepted (April 2003)

Scientific paper

10.1086/367698

Fourier decomposition is a well established technique used in stellar pulsation. However the quality of reconstructed light curves using this method is reduced when the observed data have uneven phase coverage. We use simulated annealing techniques together with Fourier decomposition to improve the quality of the Fourier decomposition for many OGLE LMC fundamental mode Cepheids. This method restricts the range that Fourier amplitudes can take. The ranges are specified by well sampled Cepheids in the Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds. We also apply this method to reconstructing Cepheid light curves observed by the HST. These typically consist of 12 V band and 4 I band points. We employ a direct Fourier fit to the 12 V band points using the simulated annealing method mentioned above and explicitly derive and use Fourier interrelations to reconstruct the I band light curve. We discuss advantages and drawbacks of this method when applied to HST Cepheid data over existing template methods. Application of this method to reconstruct the light curves of Cepheids observed in NGC 4258 shows that the derived Cepheid distance ($\mu_0=29.38\pm0.06$, random error) is consistent with its geometrical distance ($\mu_0=29.28\pm0.09$) derived from observations of water maser.

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