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Messier 3球状星团中RR天琴座变星的近红外普查和周期-光度关系

Near-infrared Census of RR Lyrae variables in the Messier 3 globular cluster and the Period--Luminosity Relations

Anupam Bhardwaj, Marina Rejkuba, Richard de Grijs, Gregory J. Herczeg, Harinder P. Singh, Shashi Kanbur, Chow-Choong Ngeow

摘要:

我们提出了新的近红外($JHK_s$)时间序列观测RR天琴座变量的Messier 3(NGC 5272)球状星团使用WIRCam仪器在3.6米加拿大法国夏威夷望远镜。我们的观测覆盖了星团中心周围的$\sim 21'\times 21'$天区,并提供了平均20个时期的均匀$JHK_s$波段测光。新的均匀光度学被用来估计175个基本模式(RRab),47个泛音模式(RRc)和11个混合模式(RRd)变量的鲁棒平均星等。我们的样本233 RR天琴座变量是迄今为止最大的一个单一的集群与时间分辨,多波段近红外测光。在Messier 3中,天琴座RR的近红外与光学振幅比表现出从RRc到短周期($P < 0.6$ ~天)和长周期($P \gtrsim 0.6$ ~天)RRab变量的系统性增加。我们推导出$JHK_s$ -波段周期-亮度关系RRab,RRc,和合并样本的变量。基于理论上预测的天琴座RR型星的周期-光度-金属丰度关系的绝对校准产生了到M3的距离模数,$μ= 15.041 \pm 0.017~(\textrm{statistical}) \pm 0.036~(\textrm{systematic})$ ~mag。当锚定到附近的RR天琴座恒星的三角视差从{ \it哈勃太空望远镜}和{ \it盖亚}任务,我们的距离估计是一致的,从理论校准的结果,虽然相对较大的系统不确定性。

英文摘要:

We present new near-infrared ($JHK_s$) time-series observations of RR Lyrae variables in the Messier 3 (NGC 5272) globular cluster using the WIRCam instrument at the 3.6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope. Our observations cover a sky area of $\sim 21'\times 21'$ around the cluster center and provide an average of twenty epochs of homogeneous $JHK_s$-band photometry. New homogeneous photometry is used to estimate robust mean magnitudes for 175 fundamental-mode (RRab), 47 overtone-mode (RRc), and 11 mixed-mode (RRd) variables. Our sample of 233 RR Lyrae variables is the largest thus far obtained in a single cluster with time-resolved, multi-band near-infrared photometry. Near-infrared to optical amplitude ratios for RR Lyrae in Messier 3 exhibit a systematic increase moving from RRc to short-period ($P < 0.6$~days) and long-period ($P \gtrsim 0.6$~days) RRab variables. We derive $JHK_s$-band Period--Luminosity relations for RRab, RRc, and the combined sample of variables. Absolute calibrations based on the theoretically predicted Period--Luminosity--Metallicity relations for RR Lyrae stars yield a distance modulus, $μ= 15.041 \pm 0.017~(\textrm{statistical}) \pm 0.036~(\textrm{systematic})$~mag, to Messier 3. When anchored to trigonometric parallaxes for nearby RR Lyrae stars from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} and the {\it Gaia} mission, our distance estimates are consistent with those resulting from the theoretical calibrations, albeit with relatively larger systematic uncertainties.

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