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经典造父变星新的周期光度和周期颜色关系:III。SMC中的造父变星

New period-luminosity and period-color relations of classical Cepheids: III. Cepheids in SMC

A. Sandage, G. A. Tammann, B. Reindl

摘要:

我们分析了Udalski等人测量的460颗对数P > 0.4的SMC中经典基模造父变星的测光数据,分析了它们的P-C和P-L关系,以及不稳定带上振幅的变化,方法与本系列论文I和II中所做的类似。SMC造父变星在(B-V)中的蓝色在给定的周期内比银河系和LMC都要蓝。它们在(B-V)中的P-C关系用两条相交于P=10 d的直线拟合最好。它们的突变必然也存在于B和/或V的P-L关系中,但仍然隐藏在星等离散中。在P=2.5 d时,B、V和I的P-L关系出现了另外一个明显的断裂。在HR图中观察到的等周期线的斜率与脉动方程的理论预期一致。周期小于13天的最大振幅造父变星出现在不稳定带的蓝色边缘附近。在13 ~ 20天的周期间隔内,这种感觉是相反的,就像在银河系和大麦哲伦星云中一样。SMC的P-L关系明显比星系NGC 3351、4321、M31的P-L关系平坦,所有这些星系的P-L关系都具有几乎相同的陡度。SMC的P-L斜率介于这些陡斜率情况和NGC 3109和六分仪A/B的低金属量星系中造父变星的非常浅的斜率之间,这与造父变星P-L关系随星系金属量而变化的前提一致。如果不考虑P-L关系中的斜率差异作为金属丰度的函数,使用造父变星作为距离指标,则会导致造父变星距离不正确。我们的长距离量表(现在由TRGB距离独立支持)和HST关键项目短量表之间15%的差异部分是由于使用了不适当的P-L关系。

英文摘要:

The photometric data for 460 classical, fundamental-mode Cepheids in the SMC with log P > 0.4 measured by Udalski et al. have been analyzed for their P-C and P-L relations, and for the variation of amplitude across the instability strip in a similar way that was done in Papers I and II of this series. The SMC Cepheids are bluer in (B-V) at a given period than for both the Galaxy and the LMC. Their P-C relation in (B-V) is best fit by two lines intersecting at P=10 d. Their break must necessarily exist also in the P-L relations in B and/or V, but remains hidden in the magnitude scatter. An additional pronounced break of the P-L relations in B, V, and I occurs at P=2.5 d. The observed slope of the lines of constant period in the HR diagram agrees with the theoretical expectation from the pulsation equation. The largest amplitude Cepheids for periods less than 13 days occur near the blue edge of the instability strip. The sense is reversed in the period interval from 13 to 20 days, as in the Galaxy and the LMC. The SMC P-L relation is significantly flatter than that for the Galaxy, NGC 3351, 4321, M31, all of which have nearly the same steep slope. The SMC P-L slope is intermediate between that of these steep slope cases and the very shallow slope of Cepheids in the lower metallicity galaxies of NGC 3109 and Sextans A/B, consistent with the premise that the Cepheid P-L relation varies from galaxy-to-galaxy as function of metallicity. Failure to take into account the slope differences in the P-L relation as a function of metallicity using Cepheids as distance indicators results in incorrect Cepheid distances. Part of the 15% difference between our long distance scale - now independently supported by TRGB distances - and that of the HST Key Project short scale is due to the effect of using an inappropriate P-L relation.

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