New pulsational properties of eight "anomalous" RR Lyrae variables

Details New pulsational properties of eight "anomalous" RR Lyrae variables New pulsational properties of eight "anomalous" RR Lyrae variables

1995-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9504034v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages including text and tables, plain tex. Figures available through anonymous ftp at ftp://astbo3.bo.astro.it/pub/bap/fil

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CCD photometry in the V band is presented for 7 field RR Lyrae stars selected from a sample of eight variables which, according to data collected in the literature, are expected to be {\it ab}-type pulsators, to have short periods and hence high metallicity, and to be located at high {\it z} from the galactic plane. New periods and epochs are derived for them. The new periods are only slightly shorter than the values published on the last edition of the General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS4). Instead, in six cases our amplitude of the light variation is significantly smaller than that published on the GCVS4, and in at least three cases the actual pulsation appears to be in the first harmonic rather than in the fundamental mode. All the suggested {\it c}-type pulsators show variations in the amplitude and/or quite scattered light curves. Possible explanations are given. From a spectro-photometric analysis of the sample, only DL Com is confirmed to pulsate in the fundamental mode, to have short period, and to be located at relatively high {\it z}. A single object cannot be taken as evidence for a significant metal rich population at large distance from the galactic plane.

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