Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-14
Astron.Lett. 29 (2003) 599-611
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1607498
We obtained a series of more than two hundred R-band CCD images for the crowded central (115"x77") region of the metal-poor globular cluster M15 with an angular resolution of 0.5"-0.9" in most images. Optimal image subtraction was used to identify variable stars. Brightness variations were found in 83 stars, 55 of which were identified with known cluster variables and the remaining 28 are candidates for new variables. Two of them are most likely SX Phe variables. The variability type of two more stars is incertain. The remaining stars were tentatively classified as RR Lyrae variables. A preliminary analysis of published data and our results shows that the characteristics of RR Lyrae variables in the densest part (r<35") of the cluster probably change. More specifically, the maximum of the period distribution of first- and second-overtone (RR1, RR2) pulsating stars shifts toward shorter periods; i.e., there is an increase in the fraction of stars pulsating with periods < 0.3d and a deficiency of stars with 0.35d-0.40d. The ratio of the number of these short-period RR Lyrae variables to the number of fundamental-tone (RR0) pulsating variables changes appreciably. We found and corrected the error of transforming the coordinates of variables V128-155 in M15 to the coordinate system used in the catalog of variable stars in globular clusters.
Kravtsov Valery V.
Zheleznyak Alexander P.
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