scholarly journals MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. XVII. SEVEN NOTES ON THE CEPHEID VARIABLES

1955 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 829-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Shapley ◽  
V. M. Nail
1984 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
M. Imbert ◽  
J. Andersen ◽  
A. Ardeberg ◽  
C. Bardin ◽  
W. Benz ◽  
...  

Radii and luminosities for Cepheid variables provide fundamental information on stellar evolution. Such data, obtained by the Baade-Wesselink method, are available and have been used for a number of galactic Cepheids. It is of particular interest to obtain corresponding data for Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds. Firstly, this allows a comparative study of stellar evolution between the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. Secondly, it provides data for an independent determination of the distance to the Magellanic Clouds.Radial-velocity observations have been made for a total of around 20 Cepheid variables in both the LMC and the SMC. All measurements were made with the photoelectric scanner CORAVEL attached to the Cassegrain focus of the Danish 1.54-m telescope at European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile. Observations were made from January 1981 through October 1983. The accuracy of individual radial-velocity observations is of the order of 1 km s−1. The B magnitudes of the six Cepheids presented range from 13.0 to 15.5.


1991 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 249-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A.R. Caldwell ◽  
C. David Laney

Cepheid variables provide a key to understanding the structure and distance of the Magellanic Clouds, as well as providing accurate reddenings there. Recent major observing programs have continually expanded the data base of photometry and velocities. It is important to try to reconcile the plethora of Cepheid data into a consonant picture of the three-dimensional spatial structure of the Clouds and to compare in a consistent manner the bulk Cloud distance moduli found by several photometric methods.


2004 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 498-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Moskalik ◽  
Zbigniew Kołaczkowski ◽  
Tomasz Mizerski

AbstractWe have performed systematic frequency analysis of the LMC Cepheids observed by OGLE project. Several new types of pulsation behaviour are identified, including triple-mode and amplitude-modulated double-mode pulsations. In ~ 10% of the first overtone Cepheids we find low amplitude secondary periodicities corresponding to nonradial modes. This is the first evidence for excitation of nonradial oscillations in Classical Cepheid variables.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (S339) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
A. Bhardwaj ◽  
S. M. Kanbur ◽  
M. Marconi ◽  
H. P. Singh ◽  
M. Rejkuba ◽  
...  

AbstractThis poster presented results from a detailed analysis of observed and theoretical light-curves of classical Cepheid variables in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The theoretical light-curves were based on non-linear convective hydrodynamical pulsation models; the observational data were taken from ongoing wide-field variability surveys. The variation which we found in theoretical and observed light-curve parameters as a function of period, wavelength and metallicity was used to constrain the input physics to the pulsation models, such as the mass–luminosity relations obeyed by Cepheid variables. We also accounted for the variation in the convective efficiency as entered into the stellar pulsation models and its impact on the theoretical amplitudes and Period-Luminosity relations for Cepheid variables.


2000 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 250-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Alibert ◽  
Isabelle Baraffe

AbstractWe have computed stellar evolutionary models for stars in a mass range characteristic of Cepheid variables for metallicities representative of the Magellanic Clouds populations. These calculations are coupled to a linear non-adiabatic stability analysis in order to get self-consistent mass-period-luminosity relationships. We construct period histograms taking into account a mass function and evolutionary time scales, and we compare them to those given by the microlensing surveys EROSl and OGLE.


1993 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 359-367
Author(s):  
D.L. Welch ◽  
M. Mateo ◽  
E.W. Olszewski

AbstractThe Magellanic Clouds remain an ideal place to study the properties of Cepheid variables. In this paper, we review historical and current work on Cepheids in LMC and SMC clusters, present new results for NGC 1866 and NGC 2164, and describe a new technique for automated selection of Cepheid variables using two-color photometry. We also emphasize the numerous advantages of high-precision radial velocities in the study of Magellanic Cloud variables.


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