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由WISE初步数据导出的RR型天琴座星的中红外周期光度关系

Mid-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations of RR Lyrae Stars Derived from the WISE Preliminary Data Release

Christopher R. Klein, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Butler, Joshua S. Bloom

摘要:

星际尘埃提出了一个重大的挑战,以扩大光学观测到的脉动变量的距离,以更大的体积。距离阶梯工作在中红外波段,尘埃的影响可以忽略不计,金属丰度的相关性最小化,主要集中在几个时代的造父变星的研究。在这里,我们提出了第一次确定中红外周期光度(PL)关系的RR天琴座恒星的相位分辨成像使用的初步数据发布的宽视场红外巡天探测器(WISE)。我们提出了一种新的统计框架,预测后的距离76观察良好的RR天琴座,使用光学构建的先验距离模量,同时施加一个幂律PL关系到WISE确定的平均幅度。我们发现最蓝WISE滤波器的绝对星等为M_W1 =(-0.421+-0.014)-(1.681+-0.147)*log(P/0.50118天),没有证据表明与金属丰度相关。结合三个最蓝的WISE滤波器的结果,我们发现我们样本中的典型恒星的距离测量不确定度为0.97%(统计)加上1.17%(系统)。我们并没有从根本上改变RRc星的周期,以改善它们对关系的拟合。取希巴科斯导出的平均V带星等,我们使用距离后验来确定一个新的光学金属性-光度关系,我们在第5节中提出。这项分析的结果将很快通过HST视差测量进行测试,并最终通过盖亚天体测量任务进行测试。

英文摘要:

Interstellar dust presents a significant challenge to extending parallax-determined distances of optically observed pulsational variables to larger volumes. Distance ladder work at mid-infrared wavebands, where dust effects are negligible and metallicity correlations are minimized, have been largely focused on few-epoch Cepheid studies. Here we present the first determination of mid-infrared period-luminosity (PL) relations of RR Lyrae stars from phase-resolved imaging using the preliminary data release of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We present a novel statistical framework to predict posterior distances of 76 well-observed RR Lyrae that uses the optically constructed prior distance moduli while simultaneously imposing a power-law PL relation to WISE-determined mean magnitudes. We find that the absolute magnitude in the bluest WISE filter is M_W1 = (-0.421+-0.014) - (1.681+-0.147)*log(P/0.50118 day), with no evidence for a correlation with metallicity. Combining the results from the three bluest WISE filters, we find that a typical star in our sample has a distance measurement uncertainty of 0.97% (statistical) plus 1.17% (systematic). We do not fundamentalize the periods of RRc stars to improve their fit to the relations. Taking the Hipparcos-derived mean V-band magnitudes, we use the distance posteriors to determine a new optical metallicity-luminosity relation which we present in Section 5. The results of this analysis will soon be tested by HST parallax measurements and, eventually, with the Gaia astrometric mission.

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