Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1988
Citation
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. (1988) 235, 1059-1072.
Abstract
We have obtained accurate, well-sampled light curves for seven stars which were candidates for short period type II Cepheids. One of the stars, CM UMa, was found to have an erroneous period. The correct period is 0.589 day and the star is an RRab star. The Fourier decomposition coefficients for the light curve of KP Cyg (period=0.86 day) combined with its high metallicity are consistent with its being either a type II Cepheid or an RR Lyrae star. The result for V486Her (period=0.8 day) is inconclusive; it is probably an RRab star. The Fourier coefficients showed that CE Her (period= 1.21 day) and XX Vir (period=1.35 day) are type II Cepheids as suspected. Both stars show excess scatter and rapid variations during declining light which we suggest deserve further attention. BB Gem has Fourier coefficients which are appropriate to a short period classical Cepheid, making it the shortest period fundamental pulsator of that class known in the Galaxy.
Comments
Copyright 1988Royal Astronomical Society.