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造父变星的金属性二分法

On the Cepheid Metallicity Dichotomy

Geza Kovacs

摘要:

借助于恒星大气模型,我们用OGLE B,V,I测光法计算了麦哲伦云造父变星的铁丰度[Fe/H]。我们发现,在这两个云的平均金属丰度的第一泛变量低于基本的(由~0.2和~0.3德克斯在LMC和SMC,分别)。因此,整体[Fe/H]和光度之间存在相关性;低光度的恒星往往也具有较低的金属量。这些金属丰度的依赖关系是一致的,来自两种类型的双模造父变星脉动理论。这种二分法的另一个支持来自演化理论,它要求蓝环低光度恒星的金属丰度低于高光度恒星。我们还评论使用周期光度颜色关系,以获得更准确的金属丰度的可能性。

英文摘要:

With the aid of stellar atmosphere models, we derive iron abundances [Fe/H] from the OGLE B, V, I photometry on the Magellanic Cloud Cepheids. We show that in both clouds the average metallicities of the first overtone variables are lower than those of the fundamental ones (by ~0.2 and ~0.3 dex in the LMC and SMC, respectively). Consequently, there is a correlation between the overall [Fe/H] and luminosity; the lower luminosity stars tend to be also of lower metallicity. These metallicity dependencies are concordant with the ones derived for the two types of double-mode Cepheids from pulsation theory. Yet another support of this dichotomy comes from the evolution theories that require lower metallicities for blue-looping low-luminosity stars than for high-luminosity ones. We also comment on the possibility of using period-luminosity-color relations to derive more accurate metallicities.

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