Metal Rich RR Lyrae Variables: II. The Pulsational Scenario

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1997-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702083v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 19 ps figures, 5 ps tables, uses aaspp4.sty and tighten.sty, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/304284

We present a theoretical investigation on the pulsational behavior of metal-rich RR Lyrae variables over the range of evolutionary parameters suitable for stars with metallicities Z= 0.006, 0.01 and 0.02. With the addition of similar results for metal-poor pulsators we discuss the theoretical pulsational scenario covering the metallicity range from Z=0.0001 to 0.02. We find that the distribution of field ab-type RR Lyrae stars in the period-metallicity plane can be easily understood within the framework of the present theoretical scenario, suggesting that the Oosterhoff dichotomy also affects field variables. Theoretical predictions concerning the amplitude-period diagram are discussed and compared with observational data. We find a general agreement for metal-poor ([Fe/H]<-1.4) RR Lyrae stars, whereas more metal-rich variables show amplitudes smaller than those predicted for pulsators originated from old, low-mass evolving stars. Alternatively, the agreement between theory and observations would require that a substantial fraction of metal-rich RR Lyrae variables in the Galactic field were younger than approximately 2 Gyr. The comparison between the pulsational behavior of RR Lyrae either in the Galactic field or in the Galactic bulge discloses the evidence that, at least as far as RR Lyrae variables are concerned, the metal-rich components of the bulge and of the field population appear quite similar.

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