Opacity, metallicity, and Cepheid period ratios in the galaxy and Magellanic Clouds

Details Opacity, metallicity, and Cepheid period ratios in the galaxy and Magellanic Clouds Opacity, metallicity, and Cepheid period ratios in the galaxy and Magellanic Clouds

Jul 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...429..772s&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 429, no. 2, pt. 1, p. 772-780

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Astronomical Models, Cepheid Variables, Galaxies, Magellanic Clouds, Metallicity, Opacity, Periodic Variations, Pulsed Radiation, Ratios, Computation, Galactic Evolution, Luminosity, Numerical Analysis, Stellar Mass

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Linear pulsation calculations are employed to reproduce the bump Cepheid resonance (P2/P0 = 0.5 at P0 approximately equal to 10 days) and to model, individually, the P1/P0 period ratios for the dozen known Galactic beat Cepheids. Convection is ignored. The results point to a range of metallicity among the Cepheids, perhaps as large as 0.01 approximately less than Z approximately less than 0.02, with no evidence for any star exceeding Z = 0.02. We find masses and luminosities which range from M approximately less than 4 solar mass, log(base 10) approximately less than 3.0 at P0 approximately equal to 3 days to M approximately less than 6 solar mass, log(base 10) L approximately greater than 3.5 at P0 approximately equal to 10 days. Similar parameters are indicated for the P0 approximately equal to 10 days Cepheids in the LMC and SMC, provided that the resonance for these stars occurs at a slightly longer period, P0 days, as has been suggested in the literature. Our calculations were performed mainly using OPAL opacities, but also with new opacities from the Opacity project (OP). Only small differences were found between the OPAL results and those from OP. Finally, some suggestions are made for possible future work, including evolution and pulsation calculations, and more precise observations of Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds.

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