RR Lyrae pulsational temperature scales: On the consistency between different empirical relations

Details RR Lyrae pulsational temperature scales: On the consistency between different empirical relations RR Lyrae pulsational temperature scales: On the consistency between different empirical relations

2001-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104295v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 397

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 5 postscript figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04618.x

In this paper, by assuming as correct equilibrium temperatures of RRab Lyrae variables those defined from Carney, Storm & Jones (1992, CSJ), we show that temperatures derived from (B-V) colour (mean colour over the pulsational cycle calculated on the magnitude scale) by Bessel, Castelli & Plez 1998 (BCP) transformations, are consistent with CSJ equilibrium temperatures within a probable error of $\delta \log T_e = \pm 0.003$. As a consequence it is shown that the pulsational temperature scale, temperature-period-blue amplitude ($T_{eff}=f(P,A_B)$), provided by De Santis (1996, DS96) by (B-V) colour of about 70 stars of Lub's sample, is a suitable relation, reddening and metallicity free, to calculate equilibrium temperatures for RRab variables. This relation is independent from variable mass and luminosity within a large range of period-shift from the mean period-amplitude relation valid for the Lub's sample of variables. On the contrary, it is also shown that a temperature-amplitude-metallicity relation is strictly dependent from the period-amplitude relation of the sample used for calibrating it: we prove this means that it is dependent from both mass and luminosity variations of variables.

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