Short-Period Variables in the Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Tucana and LGS3

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2007-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701729v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings for the VII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) held

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We present preliminary results concerning the search for short-period variable stars in Tucana and LGS3 based on very deep HST/ACS imaging. In the fraction of the observed field we studied in each galaxy, a total of 133 and 30 variables were found, respectively. For Tucana, we identified 76 of them as RR Lyrae (RRL) stars pulsating in the fundamental mode (RRab) and 32 in the first-overtone mode (RRc), as well as 2 anomalous Cepheids (AC). The mean period of the RRab and RRc is 0.59 and 0.35 days, respectively. In the case of LGS3, we found 24 RRab and 4 RRc, with mean periods 0.61and 0.39 days, respectively, plus two candidate ACs. These values place both galaxies in the Oosterhoff gap.

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