Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
September 1990
Abstract
The General Catalogue of Variable Stars gives periods of slightly less than three-quarters of a day for the stars NO Cas and CN Tau. However, new photometry demonstrates that their periods are actually 2.6 and 1.8 days, respectively, and they are thus classical Cepheids. Fourier decompositions of their light curves are performed, and they are found to be members of a class of Cepheids with periods less than three days which may be related to the s-Cepheids. These two stars represent the shortest and longest known members of this class and thus are very useful in defining its properties in the Fourier diagrams.
Comments
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 102, 978 (1990). Published by University of Chicago Press; copyright © 1990 Astronomical Society of the Pacific; reproduced by permission. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/