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银河造父变星的韦森海特函数:投影因子的应用

Wesenheit Function for Galactic Cepheids: Application to the Projection Factors

Chow-Choong Ngeow, Hilding Neilson, Nicolas Nardetto, Massimo Marengo

摘要:

造父变星是校准周期光度关系的必要工具,但是到单个造父变星的距离很难精确测量,并且仅限于少数技术,例如直接视差,主序拟合到造父变星所在的疏散星团和Baade-Wesselink(BW)方法。在这项工作中,我们重新审视应用Wesenwestern函数在确定距离超过300银河造父变星,利用Wesenwestern函数是灭绝免费的定义。韦森距离被用来校准银河系造父变星的投影因子(p因子),这些造父变星也具有BW距离。基于~70颗造父变星,我们发现周期-p因子关系可能表现出非线性趋势,具有相当大的离散性。在我们的调查中,在文献中发现了仙王座三角洲的不一致p因子。这可能是由于使用不同的经验技术的角直径的不一致的测量。我们讨论了角直径测量不一致的原因,并提供了一个可能的补救办法。

英文摘要:

Galactic Cepheids are necessary tools for calibrating the period-luminosity relation, but distances to individual Galactic Cepheids are difficult to precisely measure and are limited to a small number of techniques such as direct parallax, main-sequence fitting to open clusters that host Cepheids and Baade-Wesselink (BW) methods. In this work, we re-examine the application of Wesenheit function in determining distances to more than 300 Galactic Cepheids, by taking advantage of the fact that the Wesenheit function is extinction free by definition. The Wesenheit distances were used to calibrate the projection factor (p-factor) for Galactic Cepheids that also possess BW distances. Based on ~70 Cepheids, we found that a period-p factor relation may exhibit a non-linear trend with a considerable scatter. During our investigation, discrepant p factors for delta Cephei were found in the literature. This may be due to inconsistent measurements of the angular diameters using different empirical techniques. We discuss the reason for the inconsistency of angular diameter measurements and offer a possible remedy for this problem.

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