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AGB恒星长次级周期的周期调制

Period modulations of the long secondary periods on the AGB stars

Masaki Takayama

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本文通过加权小波Z变换分析OGLE-III数据库中大小麦哲伦云的LSP候选星光变曲线,发现少数恒星的LSP存在周期调制,表明彗星状伴星假说无法解释该现象。

摘要:

30%至50%的明亮脉动红巨星表现出比脉动周期更长的光变周期。这些周期被称为长次级周期(LSP)。多年来一直存在争议,但LSP的起源仍然未知。为了解释LSP光变,在观测和理论研究方面都提出了许多方法。然而,对LSP长度不变性的研究很少。因此,我们通过执行加权小波Z变换分析研究了周期的时间变化。使用OGLE-III数据库,分别分析了大麦哲伦云和小麦哲伦云中6904和1945个LSP候选星的I波段光变曲线。我们的大多数样本星表明,在观测期间对应于LSP的周期是恒定的。然而,LMC和SMC中分别有101和44颗LSP恒星显示出LSP时间变化的特征。周期调制具有多样性,即单调增加或减少,或者保持恒定直到中期然后增加等。彗星状伴星是LSP光变可能的解释之一,但该假设无法解释周期调制,因为LSP由轨道周期决定。

英文摘要:

30$\%$--50$\%$ of the luminous pulsating red-giant stars show light variations of a longer period than the pulsation periods. Those periods are called long secondary periods (LSP). There has been debated for many years but the origin of the LSP is still unknown. To explain the LSP variations, there have been many approaches in not only observations but also theoretical studies. However, the invariance of the length of the LSPs has been investigated little. Thus, we studied the temporal variations of the period by performing the weighted wavelet-Z-transform analysis. Using the OGLE-III database, the $I$-band light curves of 6904 and 1945 LSP candidates in the Large/Small Magellanic Clouds, respectively, were analyzed. Most of our sample stars indicated that the period corresponding to the LSP was constant during the observation term. However, 101 and 44 LSP stars in the LMC and SMC, respectively, showed the signature of the temporal variations of the LSPs. There were diversities of the period modulations i.e. monotonic increase or decrease, or constant until the middle and then increase, etc. The comet-like companion is one of the possible explanations for the LSP variations, but this hypothesis cannot explain the period modulations because the LSP is determined by the orbital period.

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