The luminosity scale of RR Lyrae stars with the Baade-Wesselink method. II - The absolute magnitudes of 13 field RR Lyrae stars

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Blue Stars, Giant Stars, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Magnitude, Variable Stars, Brightness Distribution, Computational Astrophysics, Interstellar Extinction, Metallicity, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Stellar Temperature

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The surface brightness version of the Baade-Wesselink method has been applied to 13 field RR Lyrae stars to derive their absolute magnitudes from the photometry and radial velocities presented in a previous paper. Using static model atmospheres to provide metallicity- and gravity-dependent color-temperature transformations, it is found that the RR Lyrae temperature scale can be relatively well defined using the infrared color index V-K except for a small phase interval where strong atmospheric acceleration and shock waves are present, while the temperatures determined from bluer color indices are systematically overestimated. The results show a clear correlation between the luminosities of the RR Lyraes and their metallicities.

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