PHOTOMETRY OF TYPE II CEPHEIDS. III. THE INTERMEDIATE-PERIOD STARS

Authors

Edward G. Schmidt, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Dale Johnston, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Shawn Langan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kevin M. Lee, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

8-1-2005

Comments

Published in The Astronomical Journal 130, pp. 832-841 (August 2005). Copyright 2005 by the University of Chicago Press and the American Astronomical Society. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/
Reproduced by permission of the AAS.

Abstract

We present 741 new photometric observations for 22 Cepheids with periods between 3 and 8 days. Many of the stars are probable type II Cepheids, but we have included some type I Cepheids for comparison. The shapes and stability of the shapes of the light curves, the stability of the periods, and the scatter of individual data points are discussed. Although none of these proves to be a reliable discriminator between type I and type II Cepheids, they do permit the identification of several unusual stars.