Pulsation Models for Ultra-Low (Z=0.0004) Metallicity Classical Cepheids

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2010-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/1002.4752v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

accepted for publication on ApJ. Table3 is in a separate file because it will appear only in electronic form. Figures 11 and 1

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Classical Cepheids are primary distance indicators playing a fundamental role in the calibration of the extragalactic distance scale. The possible dependence of their characteristic Period-Luminosity (PL) relation on chemical composition is still debated in the literature, and the behaviour of these pulsators at very low metallicity regimes is almost unexplored. In order to derive constraints on the application of the Period-Luminosity relation at low metal abundances, we investigate the properties of the few ultra-low metallicity (Z ~ 0.0004) Cepheids recently discovered in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy IZw18. To this purpose we have computed an updated and extended set of nonlinear convective models for Z=0.0004 and Y=0.24, spanning a wide range of stellar masses, and taking into account the evolutionary constraints for selected luminosity levels. As a result we are able to predict the topology of the instability strip, the variations of all the relevant quantities along the pulsation cycle, including the morphology of the light curves, the theoretical Period-Luminosity-Color, Period-Wesenheit and Period-Luminosity relations at such a low metallicity. For each of these relations we provide the appropriate coefficients for fundamental mode pulsators with Z=0.0004. By comparing these results with the properties of more metal rich Cepheids we find that the synthetic PL relations for Z=0.0004 are steeper than at higher Z, but similar to the Z=0.004 ones, thus suggesting a leveling off of the metallicity effect towards the lowest Zs.

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