Classical Cepheid Pulsation Models. X. The Period-Age Relation

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2004-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411756v1

Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 966-977

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 10 postscript figures, accepted for publication on ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/427744

We present new Period-Age (PA) and Period-Age-Color (PAC) relations for fundamental and first overtone classical Cepheids. Current predictions rely on homogeneous sets of evolutionary and pulsation models covering a broad range of stellar masses and chemical compositions. We found that PA and PAC relations present a mild dependence upon metal content. Moreover, the use of different PA and PAC relation for fundamental and first overtone Cepheids improves the accuracy of age estimates in the short-period (log P < 1) range (old Cepheids), because they present smaller intrinsic dispersions. At the same time, the use of the PAC relations improves the accuracy in the long-period (log P >= 1) range (young Cepheids), since they account for the position of individual objects inside the instability strip. We performed a detailed comparison between evolutionary and pulsation ages for a sizable sample of LMC (15) and SMC (12) clusters which host at least two Cepheids. In order to avoid deceptive uncertainties in the photometric absolute zero-point, we adopted the homogeneous set of B,V,I data for clusters and Cepheids collected by OGLE. We also adopted the same reddening scale. The different age estimates agree at the level of 20 % for LMC clusters and of 10 % for SMC clusters. We also performed the same comparison for two Galactic clusters (NGC6067, NGC7790) and the difference in age is smaller than 20 %. These findings support the use of PA and PAC relations to supply accurate estimates of individual stellar ages in the Galaxy and in external Galaxies. The main advantage of this approach is its independence from the distance.

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