Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-09-19
Astron.J.135:83-91,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
30 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/83
Previous studies have indicated that many of the RR Lyrae variables in the LMC have properties similar to the ones in the Galactic globular cluster M3. Assuming that the M3 RR Lyrae variables follow the same relationships among period, temperature, amplitude and Fourier phase parameter phi31 as their LMC counterparts, we have used the M3 phi31-logP relation to identify the M3-like unevolved first overtone RR Lyrae variables in 16 fields near the LMC bar. The temperatures of these variables were calculated from the M3 logP-logTe relation so that the extinction could be derived for each star separately. Since blended stars have lower amplitudes for a given period, the period amplitude relation should be a useful tool for identifying which stars are affected by crowding. We find that the low amplitude stars are brighter. We remove them from the sample and derive an LMC distance modulus 18.49+/-0.11.
Clement Christine M.
Muzzin A. V.
Xu Xiaoping
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