Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-30
Acta Astronomica (2011) 61, 1
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
23 pages, color figures
Scientific paper
The eleventh part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars (OIII-CVS) contains 16836 RR Lyr stars detected in the OGLE fields toward the Galactic bulge. The total sample is composed of 11756 RR Lyr stars pulsating in the fundamental mode (RRab), 4989 overtone pulsators (RRc), and 91 double-mode (RRd) stars. About 400 RR Lyr stars are members of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. The catalog includes the time-series photometry collected in the course of the OGLE survey, basic parameters of the stars, finding charts, and cross-identifications with other catalogs of RR Lyr stars toward the Milky Way center. We notice that some RRd stars in the Galactic bulge show unusually short periods and small ratio of periods, down to P_F=0.35 days and P_1O/P_F=0.726. In the Petersen diagram double-mode RR Lyr stars form a parabola-like structure, which connects shorter- and longer-period RRd stars. We show that the unique properties of the bulge RRd stars may be explained by allowing for the wide range of the metal abundance extending up to [Fe/H]=-0.36. We report the discovery of an RR Lyr star with additional eclipsing variability with the orbital period of 15.2447 days. Some statistical features of the RR Lyr sample are presented. We discuss potential applications of our catalog in studying the structure and history of the central region of the Galaxy, mapping the interstellar extinction toward the bulge, studying globular clusters and the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy.
Dziembowski Wojciech A.
Kozlowski Stanislaw
Kubiak Mateo M. M.
Pietrukowicz Pawel
Pietrzynski Grzegorz
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