Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aj....118.3016m&link_type=abstract
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 118, Issue 6, pp. 3016-3031.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Stars: Variables: Cepheids, Stars: Individual (Su Cassiopeiae)
Scientific paper
Baade-Wesselink analyses of this important Galactic classical Cepheid provide new values for the radius, luminosity, distance, and mass and show SU Cas likely to be pulsating in the first overtone. Application of a modified Baade-Wesselink technique and the maximum likelihood method, which we have previously applied to δ Scuti-type variables, yield values of R=33.0+/-1.1 Rsolar, L=1536+/-291 Lsolar, MV=-3.28-0.19+0.23, r=486+/-52 pc, mass (from the Baade-Wesselink radius), M=6.5+/-0.6 Msolar (assuming first-overtone pulsation), and evolutionary mass, Mev=5.5+/-0.3 Msolar. The results are consistent with the Hipparcos satellite parallax, 2.31+/-0.58 mas (433+145-87 pc), providing further support for overtone pulsation of SU Cas. In the course of the analyses, a modification to the maximum likelihood method, devised by one of us (W. J. F. W.), is presented as an alternative to the modifications of Laney & Stobie and Coulson, Caldwell, & Gieren. We dedicate this paper to Adriaan J. Wesselink, a dedicated scientist and teacher, and inventor of ``the method.''
Milone Eugene F.
Volk Kathryn
Wilson J. F. W.
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