HADS in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Initial Findings from the SuperMACHO Project

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Pulsations, Oscillations, And Stellar Seismology, Magellanic Stream, Low-Amplitude Blue Variables

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The SuperMACHO Project is a five-year survey toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) aimed at understanding the nature of the populations of lenses responsible for the excess microlensing rates observed by the MACHO project [1]. Survey observations were completed in 2006. A rich side-product of this survey is a catalog of variable sources down to a depth of VR 23, including many classes of pulsating variables such as δ-Scuti and RR Lyrae. Through their position in the Period-Luminosity diagram and their light curve characteristics we have identified 2323 high amplitude δ-Scuti (HADS) having high quality light curves. Using Fourier decomposition of the HADS light curves, we find that the period-luminosity (PL) relation defined by the first-overtone (FO) pulsators does not show a clear separation from the PL-relation defined by the fundamental (F) pulsators. This differs from other instability strip pulsators such as type c RR Lyrae. We also present evidence for a larger amplitude, subluminous population of HADS similar to that observed in Fornax [2].

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