Chemical Abundances of Galactic Cepheid Variables that Calibrate the P-L Relation

Details Chemical Abundances of Galactic Cepheid Variables that Calibrate the P-L Relation Chemical Abundances of Galactic Cepheid Variables that Calibrate the P-L Relation

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aj....113.1073f&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal v.113, p. 1073-1087 (1997)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We have completed spectroscopic studies of 23 Galactic cepheids to determine possible metallicity effects on measuring the zero point of the P-L relation. We find a spread of 0.4 dex in [Fe/H], which is not the result of either observational scatter or of a metallicity gradient within the Galactic disk. We find a smaller, less significant spread of 0.2 dex in [alpha /Fe]. Our results are robust, determined by constancy of [Fe/H] derived at differing temperatures throughout the pulsational cycle, and abundances of two dwarfs compared to U Sgr in the cluster M 25. We discuss briefly the effect of metallicity on the P-L relation. We also argue that EV Sct and QZ Nor are overtone pulsators, and that the latter is not a member of the cluster NGC 6067.

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