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造父变星不稳定带的温度差异要求周期-光度关系在斜率和零点上的差异

Temperature Differences in the Cepheid Instability Strip Require Differences in the Period-Luminosity Relation in Slope and Zero Point

Allan Sandage, G. A. Tammann

摘要:

本文用图解和代数方法证明了造父变星周期光度关系的斜率和零点与HR图中造父变星不稳定带的斜率和零点是刚性耦合的。图形演示使用一个任意的(玩具)脊线的不稳定带,而代数演示使用的脉动方程,观测到的P-L关系的银河系和大麦哲伦星系的预测温度零点和斜率的不稳定带。预测和测量的不稳定带斜率之间的协议认为,所观察到的银河系和LMC之间的P-L差异是真实的。通过比较银河系造父变星、NGC 3351和NGC 4321、M31、LMC、SMC、IC 1613、NGC 3109和六分仪A+B的组合数据,证明了不同星系P-L斜率不同的直接证据。银河系、NGC 3351、NGC 4321和M31的P-L斜率几乎相同,并且是样本中最陡的。P-L斜率按所列顺序随金属丰度单调下降,表明P-L关系在不同星系中并不相同,这使得它们在校准河外距离标度时的使用变得复杂。

英文摘要:

A graphical and an algebraic demonstration is made to show why the slope and zero point of the Cepheid period-luminosity (P-L) relation is rigidly coupled with the slope and zero point of the Cepheid instability strip in the HR diagram. The graphical demonstration uses an arbitrary (toy) ridge line in the instability strip, while the algebraic demonstration uses the pulsation equation into which the observed P-L relations for the Galaxy and the LMC are put to predict the temperature zero points and slopes of the instability strips. Agreement between the predicted and measured instability strip slopes argue that the observed P-L differences between the Galaxy and LMC are real. In another proof, the direct evidence for different P-L slopes in different galaxies is shown by comparing the Cepheid data in the Galaxy, the combined data in NGC 3351 and NGC 4321, in M31, LMC, SMC, IC 1613, NGC 3109, and in Sextans A+B. The P-L slopes for the Galaxy, NGC 3351, NGC 4321, and M31 are nearly identical and are the steepest in the sample. The P-L slopes decrease monotonically with metallicity in the order listed, showing that the P-L relation is not the same in different galaxies, complicating their use in calibrating the extragalactic distance scale.

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