Search for low instability strip variables in the young open cluster NGC 2516

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1998-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805270v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 ps figures. Accepted for P.A.S.P

Scientific paper

10.1086/316198

In this paper we revise and complete the photometric survey of the instability strip of the southern open cluster NGC 2516 published by Antonello and Mantegazza (1986). No variable stars with amplitudes larger than $0^m.02$ were found. However by means of an accurate analysis based on a new statistical method two groups of small amplitude variables have been disentangled: one with periods $< 0^d.25$ (probably $\delta$ Scuti stars) and one with periods $>0^d.025$. The position in the HR diagram and the apparent time-scale may suggest that the stars of the second group belong to a recently discovered new class of variables, named $\gamma$ Dor variables. They certainly deserve further study. We also present a comparison between the results of the photometric survey and the available pointed ROSAT observations of this cluster.

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