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Palomar瞬变工厂与RR Lyrics:开普勒场中基于ab型RR Lyrics的金属度-光变曲线关系

Palomar Transient Factory and RR Lyrae: Metallicity-Light Curve Relation Based on ab-Type RR Lyrae in Kepler Field

Chow-Choong Ngeow, Po-Chieh Yu, Eric Bellm, Ting-Chang Yang, Chan-Kao Chang, Adam Miller, Russ Laher, Jason Surace, Wing-Huen Ip

摘要:

被称为帕洛玛瞬变工厂(PTF)和中间帕洛玛瞬变工厂(iPTF)的宽场天气天空调查将积累大量已知和新的RR Lyrics。这些RR型天琴座是研究星系晕结构的良好示踪剂,如果它们的距离、金属丰度和银河系速度能够被测量的话。在请求光谱观测确认之前,可以根据它们的距离和金属丰度来识别晕RR Lyrics的候选者。这是因为这两个量都可以通过它们的光度光变曲线获得,因为RR天琴座的V波段绝对星等与金属丰度相关,而金属丰度可以使用金属丰度-光变曲线关系来估计。为了充分利用PTF和iPTF的光变曲线数据在未来的相关工作中,有必要在本地PTF/iPTF R波段光度系统中导出金属性-光变曲线关系。在这项工作中,我们利用位于开普勒场中的已知ab型RR天球导出了这样一个关系,发现它是$[Fe/H]_{PTF} = -4.089 - 7.346 P + 1.280 ϕ_{31}$(其中$P$是脉动周期,$ϕ_{31}$是描述光变曲线形状的傅立叶参数之一),色散为0.118 dex。我们测试了我们的金属度-光变曲线的关系与新的光谱观测的几个RR天琴座在开普勒领域,以及几个数据集在文献中。我们的测试表明,推导出的金属丰度-光变曲线关系可用于估计大多数RR型天琴座的金属丰度,这与公布的值一致。

英文摘要:

The wide-field synoptic sky surveys, known as the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), will accumulate a large number of known and new RR Lyrae. These RR Lyrae are good tracers to study the substructure of the Galactic halo if their distance, metallicity, and galactocentric velocity can be measured. Candidates of halo RR Lyrae can be identified from their distance and metallicity before requesting spectroscopic observations for confirmation. This is because both quantities can be obtained via their photometric light curves, because the absolute V-band magnitude for RR Lyrae is correlated with metallicity, and the metallicity can be estimated using a metallicity-light curve relation. To fully utilize the PTF and iPTF light-curve data in related future work, it is necessary to derive the metallicity-light curve relation in the native PTF/iPTF R-band photometric system. In this work, we derived such a relation using the known ab-type RR Lyrae located in the Kepler field, and it is found to be $[Fe/H]_{PTF} = -4.089 - 7.346 P + 1.280 ϕ_{31}$ (where $P$ is pulsational period and $ϕ_{31}$ is one of the Fourier parameters describing the shape of the light curve), with a dispersion of 0.118 dex. We tested our metallicity-light curve relation with new spectroscopic observations of a few RR Lyrae in the Kepler field, as well as several data sets available in the literature. Our tests demonstrated that the derived metallicity-light curve relation could be used to estimate metallicities for the majority of the RR Lyrae, which are in agreement with the published values.

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