Detection of Beat Cepheids in M33 and Their Use as a Probe of the M33 Metallicity Distribution

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2006-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610749v1

Astrophys.J.653:L101-L104,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figs

Scientific paper

10.1086/510453

Our analysis of the Deep CFHT M33 variability survey database has uncovered 5 Beat Cepheids (BCs) that are pulsating in the fundamental and first overtone modes. With {\it only} the help of stellar pulsation theory and of mass--luminosity (M-L) relations, derived from evolutionary tracks, we can accurately determine the metallicities Z of these stars. The [O/H] metallicity gradient of -0.16 dex/kpc that is inferred from the M33 galacto-centric distances of these Cepheids and from their 'pulsation' metallicities is in excellent agreement with the standard spectroscopic metallicity gradients that are determined from H II regions, early B supergiant stars and planetary nebulae. Beat Cepheids can thus provide an additional, independent probe of galactic metallicity distributions.

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