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后发座矮椭球星系中的脉动变星

Pulsating Variable Stars in the Coma Berenices dwarf spheroidal galaxy

I. Musella, V. Ripepi, G. Clementini, M. Dall'Ora, K. Kinemuchi, L. Di Fabrizio, C. Greco, M. Marconi, H. Smith, M. Radovich, T. Beers

摘要:

我们提出了B,V,I的后发座矮球状星系,一个暗淡的银河系卫星,最近发现的斯隆数字巡天测光的时间序列。我们获得了V~23.0-23.2等的V,B-V和V,V-I色星等图,显示了星系在V~21.7等处的转折,并对这颗新的银河系伴星的变星星族进行了首次研究。在该星系中发现了两颗RR型天琴座星(一颗基模RRab星和一颗第一泛音RRc星)和一颗周期为P=0.12468天的短周期变星。RRab星具有相当长的周期P_ab=0.66971天,比RRc变星和星系水平分支上的其他非变星亮约0.2等。在周期-振幅图中,RRab变星更接近Oosterhoff II型系统和银河系球状星团M3中演化的基模RR天琴座星的轨迹。星系水平分支的平均视星等<V_HB>为18.64 ± 0.04等,采用红化E(B-V)= 0.045 ± 0.015等和金属丰度[Fe/H]=-2.53 ± 0.05 dex,得出后发座dSphmu_0的距离模数为18.13 ± 0.08等,相当于距离d=42^{+2}-1} kpc。

英文摘要:

We present B, V, I time-series photometry of the Coma Berenices dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a faint Milky Way satellite, recently discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We have obtained V, B-V and V, V-I color-magnitude diagrams that reach V~23.0-23.2 mag showing the galaxy turnoff at V~21.7 mag, and have performed the first study of the variable star population of this new Milky Way companion. Two RR Lyrae stars (a fundamental-mode -RRab- and a first overtone -RRc- pulsator) and a short period variable with period P=0.12468 days were identified in the galaxy. The RRab star has a rather long period of P_ab=0.66971 days and is about 0.2 mag brighter than the RRc variable and other non-variable stars on the galaxy horizontal branch. In the period-amplitude diagram the RRab variable falls closer to the loci of Oosterhoff type-II systems and evolved fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic globular cluster M3. The average apparent magnitude of the galaxy horizontal branch, <V_HB>=18.64+-0.04 mag, leads to a distance modulus for the Coma dSph mu_0=18.13+-0.08 mag, corresponding to a distance d=42^{+2}_{-1} kpc, by adopting a reddening E(B-V) = 0.045 +- 0.015 mag and a metallicity [Fe/H]=-2.53 +- 0.05 dex.

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