Pulsational constraints to the metallicity gradient in the Galactic disk

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Jun 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001a%26a...372..544c&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.372, p.544-550 (2001)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stars: Variables: Cepheids, Stars: Oscillations, Stars: Distances

Scientific paper

BVI data of Galactic Cepheids observed in the solar neighborhood and in the outer disk are analyzed on the basis of nonlinear, non-local and time-dependent convective pulsating models computed for different assumptions on the chemical composition. We show that the theoretical color-color, period-luminosity, and period-luminosity-color relations, as predicted by the models with varying metal content, provide the way to simultaneously estimate the true distance modulus mu_0 and the metal content Z of each individual variable. On this basis, we estimate that the metallicity distribution of Cepheids with Galactocentric distances d from ~ 6 to ~ 19 kpc can be represented by a linear gradient of -0.05 +/- 0.01 dex kpc-1, which is close to previous empirical determinations based on Cepheids, Planetary Nebulae and HII regions. However, our results are not excluding a different scenario, such as a two-zone model with a discontinuity in metallicity near d=10 kpc (see Twarog et al. 1997).

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