Detection of beat Cepheids in M33 and their use as a probe of the M33 metallicity distribution

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作者
Beaulieu, J. -P. [1 ]
Buchler, J. Robert
Marquette, J. -B.
Hartman, J. D.
Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A.
机构
[1] Inst Astrophys, F-75014 Paris, France
[2] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[3] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, Warsaw, Poland
关键词
Cepheids; galaxies : abundances; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : individual (M33); stars : oscillations (including pulsations);
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10.1086/510453
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Our analysis of the deep CFHT M33 variability survey database has uncovered five beat Cepheids that are pulsating in the fundamental and first-overtone modes. With only the help of stellar pulsation theory and of massluminosity relations, derived from evolutionary tracks, we can accurately determine the metallicities Z of these stars. The [O/H] metallicity gradient of -0.16 dex kpc(-1) that is inferred from the M33 galactocentric distances of these Cepheids and from their "pulsation" metallicities is in excellent agreement with the standard spectroscopic metallicity gradients that are determined from H ii regions, early-B supergiant stars, and planetary nebulae. Beat Cepheids can thus provide an additional, independent probe of galactic metallicity distributions.
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页码:L101 / L104
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