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First overtone pulsators among Cepheids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

L. Mantegazza  and
E. Poretti
L. Mantegazza
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Pavia, Italy
E. Poretti
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy

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The Fourier decomposition has been successfully applied to several classes of pulsating variables. Antonello and Poretti (1986) and Antonello et al. (1990a) applied it to the Cepheids with P < 8 d. The latter authors redefined the s – Cepheids a Population I Cepheids that do not follow the Hertzsprung progression, but have progression of their own. The same authors proposed a new denomination (Antonell et al., 1990b): C-a stars to indicate the Classical Cepheids and C-b stars to indicate the redefined s–Cepheids.

The new photometric data obtained at La Silla and Merate Observatories (Mantegazza and Poretti, 1992) increase the evidence of a separation of Cepheids into two well defined subclasses on the basis of the Fourier parameters of their light curves.

In the ϕ21 – P plane, the s– and Classical Cepheids are characterized by two sequences well separated for P<5.5 d.

Type
Windows on the Instability Strip
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 139: New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation and Pulsating Variable Stars , 1993 , pp. 370
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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